What is latent dirichlet allocation?

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I am a graduate psychology student studying extremist literature and my advisor recommended LDA and sent me an article to read describing it but both him and the article are too verbose for me to quite grasp. I then tried a google search but the terminology is throwing me off. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can ELI5!

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Your observation is a bunch of ants carrying shit in and out of an ant hill.

LDA says:

Make guesses about what they’re doing with the stuff.

Create the actual statistic model that would be needed for them to do the stuff you think they are doing

Compare these statistical models to the observation. do they match?

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