`Topics`¶

Visualize topics, their sizes, and their corresponding words

This visualization is highly inspired by LDAvis, a great visualization technique typically reserved for LDA.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
`topic_model`		A fitted BERTopic instance.	required
`topics`	`List[int]`	A selection of topics to visualize	`None`
`top_n_topics`	`int`	Only select the top n most frequent topics	`None`
`custom_labels`	`Union[bool, str]`	If bool, whether to use custom topic labels that were defined using `topic_model.set_topic_labels`. If `str`, it uses labels from other aspects, e.g., "Aspect1".	`False`
`title`	`str`	Title of the plot.	`'<b>Intertopic Distance Map</b>'`
`width`	`int`	The width of the figure.	`650`
`height`	`int`	The height of the figure.	`650`

Examples:

To visualize the topics simply run:

topic_model.visualize_topics()

Or if you want to save the resulting figure:

fig = topic_model.visualize_topics()
fig.write_html("path/to/file.html")

Source code in bertopic\plotting\_topics.py

def visualize_topics(topic_model,
                     topics: List[int] = None,
                     top_n_topics: int = None,
                     custom_labels: Union[bool, str] = False,
                     title: str = "<b>Intertopic Distance Map</b>",
                     width: int = 650,
                     height: int = 650) -> go.Figure:
    """ Visualize topics, their sizes, and their corresponding words

    This visualization is highly inspired by LDAvis, a great visualization
    technique typically reserved for LDA.

    Arguments:
        topic_model: A fitted BERTopic instance.
        topics: A selection of topics to visualize
        top_n_topics: Only select the top n most frequent topics
        custom_labels: If bool, whether to use custom topic labels that were defined using 
                       `topic_model.set_topic_labels`.
                       If `str`, it uses labels from other aspects, e.g., "Aspect1".
        title: Title of the plot.
        width: The width of the figure.
        height: The height of the figure.

    Examples:

    To visualize the topics simply run:

    ```python
    topic_model.visualize_topics()
    ```

    Or if you want to save the resulting figure:

    ```python
    fig = topic_model.visualize_topics()
    fig.write_html("path/to/file.html")
    ```
    <iframe src="../../getting_started/visualization/viz.html"
    style="width:1000px; height: 680px; border: 0px;""></iframe>
    """
    # Select topics based on top_n and topics args
    freq_df = topic_model.get_topic_freq()
    freq_df = freq_df.loc[freq_df.Topic != -1, :]
    if topics is not None:
        topics = list(topics)
    elif top_n_topics is not None:
        topics = sorted(freq_df.Topic.to_list()[:top_n_topics])
    else:
        topics = sorted(freq_df.Topic.to_list())

    # Extract topic words and their frequencies
    topic_list = sorted(topics)
    frequencies = [topic_model.topic_sizes_[topic] for topic in topic_list]
    if isinstance(custom_labels, str):
        words = [[[str(topic), None]] + topic_model.topic_aspects_[custom_labels][topic] for topic in topic_list]
        words = ["_".join([label[0] for label in labels[:4]]) for labels in words]
        words = [label if len(label) < 30 else label[:27] + "..." for label in words]
    elif custom_labels and topic_model.custom_labels_ is not None:
        words = [topic_model.custom_labels_[topic + topic_model._outliers] for topic in topic_list]
    else:
        words = [" | ".join([word[0] for word in topic_model.get_topic(topic)[:5]]) for topic in topic_list]

    # Embed c-TF-IDF into 2D
    all_topics = sorted(list(topic_model.get_topics().keys()))
    indices = np.array([all_topics.index(topic) for topic in topics])

    if topic_model.topic_embeddings_ is not None:
        embeddings = topic_model.topic_embeddings_[indices]
        embeddings = UMAP(n_neighbors=2, n_components=2, metric='cosine', random_state=42).fit_transform(embeddings)
    else:
        embeddings = topic_model.c_tf_idf_.toarray()[indices]
        embeddings = MinMaxScaler().fit_transform(embeddings)
        embeddings = UMAP(n_neighbors=2, n_components=2, metric='hellinger', random_state=42).fit_transform(embeddings)

    # Visualize with plotly
    df = pd.DataFrame({"x": embeddings[:, 0], "y": embeddings[:, 1],
                       "Topic": topic_list, "Words": words, "Size": frequencies})
    return _plotly_topic_visualization(df, topic_list, title, width, height)

Topics¶

`Topics`¶