23-09-2025, 11:32 AM
Very interesting!
While I am not even remotely qualified to judge what you are doing, I am also confused by the x-axis of your graphs. Since we are dealing with discrete data chunks (folios), wouldn't it be better to have a bar for each folio? It is impossible to see which folio has which topic right now. So I think a bar graph would be neater.
I have mostly worked with the herbal section so it's interesting that Currier hand 1 almost completely agrees with your brown topic while Lisa's hand 1 also includes the green one.
It would be very helpful to have a list of each folio with the topic(s) your model assigned to it. Or at least, can you tell me which herbal pages are purely brown topic? It would be intriguing if we can find any hints in the imagery that distinguish the ones that have been assigned to different topics like f17.
Also, have you checked if there is a correlation between your topics and bifolios? Almost all bifolios have been written by the same hand and it is thought that they have been created in one go. So it would be interesting to see if bifolios also have topic similarity, even if they are not adjacent.
While I am not even remotely qualified to judge what you are doing, I am also confused by the x-axis of your graphs. Since we are dealing with discrete data chunks (folios), wouldn't it be better to have a bar for each folio? It is impossible to see which folio has which topic right now. So I think a bar graph would be neater.
I have mostly worked with the herbal section so it's interesting that Currier hand 1 almost completely agrees with your brown topic while Lisa's hand 1 also includes the green one.
It would be very helpful to have a list of each folio with the topic(s) your model assigned to it. Or at least, can you tell me which herbal pages are purely brown topic? It would be intriguing if we can find any hints in the imagery that distinguish the ones that have been assigned to different topics like f17.
Also, have you checked if there is a correlation between your topics and bifolios? Almost all bifolios have been written by the same hand and it is thought that they have been created in one go. So it would be interesting to see if bifolios also have topic similarity, even if they are not adjacent.