Jason Portenoy 2018
Implement the jargon distance measure from Vilhena et al. “Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication.” (2014)
Install from PyPI:
pip install jargon-distance
Initialize a JargonDistance instance with a term_counts dict and (optionally) a group_map dict.
term_counts is a mapping of document -> term counter (Counter object).
from jargon_distance import JargonDistance
j = JargonDistance(term_counts)
Then, calculate the jargon distances:
j.calculate_jargon_distance()
j.write_to_file('jargon_distance.csv')
The jargon_distance.analysis module can be used to visualize the jargon distance calculations. For example, below is a dendrogram showing the jargon distances between the text (unigrams) of different works of literature (from the demo.ipynb notebook).
See demo.ipynb for a more detailed example.