Building an App to visually explore the Streamlit Forum

The Streamlit Forum is the go-to place to get unstuck when building Streamlit apps. In this video, @DataProfessor provides a quick walkthrough on how he built the Streamlit Forum Explorer App that allows users to enter a search query that will return a list of highly relevant forum posts based on similar vector embeddings. Such embeddings were clustered by the K-means algorithm followed by data visualization using the t-SNE method. Additionally, the query is visually mapped onto the t-SNE plot thereby showing the possible cluster to which the query is most similar. This app has several use cases: 1. Provides visualization and identification of key and most popular topics from the data cluster. 2. Help to identify areas in which there are knowledge gaps or underserved areas. 3. May serve as a roadmap or starting point for further content generation. 4. The app may be repurposed to analyze a different Discourse-powered forum Try Streamlit Forum Explorer App 🕹️ Demo App https://forum-explorer.streamlit.app/ 🐙 GitHub repo https://github.com/dataprofessor/forum-explorer #streamlit #kmeans #tsne #datavisualization #discourse