Introducing Bescea
February 16, 2021
I want to share Bescea, an instant search engine for text. This is perhaps most useful if you want to search through a data frame to find documents about a particular topic.
Installation
devtools::install_github("harryahlas/bescea")Run Bescea
library(bescea)
besceaApp(data = sneapsters,
text_field = "post_text",
unique_id = "textid") 
Requirements
Requires RStudio (reticulate and tidyverse packages) and Python (pandas, re, spacy, rank_bm25, tqdm, pickle, numpy, gensim, and nmslib modules).
Acknowledgements
This work is based heavily on foundational code provided by Josh Taylor (https://twitter.com/josh_taylor_01).