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In the article “The Digital Humanities Contribution to Topic Modeling” Meeks and Winegart  address how topic modeling has become more frequent in the humanities. When they address how “You’re introduced to topics, and how a computer came to generate them automatically without any prior knowledge of word definitions or grammar,” it really highlights how topic modeling is new to the humanities world and people can question if it is really a good fit or not. They address how topic modeling is beneficial and could help people make advances in this field. I think it is important how they conclude with the idea that topic modeling cannot take over the humanities it is just should be a new tool that they can use to help, I feel that as topic modeling in this field is so new it is important to remember that it should not be the end all be all of analyzing data and that people will still have to review it.

J-OS stated “it’s important to how exactly the topic modeling program is being run to know what exactly the results are saying.” I agree that people have to be extremely careful about what types of analysis they use with what type of data. It really shows that right now human analysis is very necessary.