I’ve been working with the Four Eyes Lab at UCSB since January. In particular, I’m working on alternative interfaces for their topic modeling software. On a high level, the software takes an corpus of documents and returns a list of the topics present in those documents. In the visualization, topics are represented as rectangles and documents as circles. Users can navigate 2-3D space in order to filter their search and see which topics are related, what subjects contributed the most to a given topic and what the most popular topics were.