HSS407 -- Analysis of Fake news using Topic modeling

See our paper

Prerequisites

• Python
• Linux (should work on macOS too, but not tested, can't guarantee about Windows, it might not work)
• Requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: if you want to get LDAvis visualizations, you need to install pyLDAvis from source, because its dependencies are outdated.

Running

First run files to make LDA models:

python3 make_fake_models.py
python3 make_real_models.py

Then you can get the visualizations of metrics:

python3 calculate_metrics_fake.py
python3 calculate_metrics_real.py

To get wordclouds run

python3 make_wcs.py

To get topic visualizations first install pyLDAvis, then

pip3 install jupyter
python -m notebook

Then open make_ldavis.ipynb on jupyter notebook, and run cells one by one.