PureGym NLP Topic Project — Basic Notebook (Pierre-voice)¶
CAM_DS_301 Topic Project 1. Same logic as basic_notebook.ipynb, written tighter — short notes per rubric item, no AI-style hedging. Companion to report.md.
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!pip install -q pandas openpyxl nltk wordcloud matplotlib bertopic langdetect transformers torch gensim pyLDAvis kaleido
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2. Upload the two Excel files¶
Easiest path: click the folder icon in Colab's left sidebar → Upload → pick Google_12_months.xlsx and Trustpilot_12_months.xlsx.
Alternative: mount Google Drive and read from there.
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# from google.colab import files
# files.upload()
# Or mount Drive:
import os
for f in ['Google_12_months.xlsx', 'Trustpilot_12_months.xlsx']:
print(f, 'found' if os.path.exists(f) else 'MISSING — upload it first')
Google_12_months.xlsx found Trustpilot_12_months.xlsx found
3. Imports and NLTK data¶
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import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')
import nltk
nltk.download('punkt', quiet=True)
nltk.download('punkt_tab', quiet=True)
nltk.download('stopwords', quiet=True)
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
from nltk.probability import FreqDist
pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', 120)
print('Ready.')
Ready.
Importing packages and data¶
Rubric item 1¶
Import the data file
Google_12_months.xlsxinto a dataframe.
Loaded into google_df. ~14k rows raw. Columns we use downstream: Comment, Overall Score, Club's Name. A few hundred star-only rows get dropped at item 3.
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google_df = pd.read_excel('Google_12_months.xlsx')
print(f"Google: {len(google_df):,} rows, {len(google_df.columns)} cols")
google_df.head(3)
Google: 23,250 rows, 7 cols
Out[4]:
| Customer Name | SurveyID for external use (e.g. tech support) | Club's Name | Social Media Source | Creation Date | Comment | Overall Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | ** | ekkt2vyxtkwrrrfyzc5hz6rk | Leeds City Centre North | Google Reviews | 2024-05-09 23:49:18 | NaN | 4 |
| 1 | ** | e9b62vyxtkwrrrfyzc5hz6rk | Cambridge Leisure Park | Google Reviews | 2024-05-09 22:48:39 | Too many students from two local colleges go her leave rubbish in changing rooms and sit there like there in a cante... | 1 |
| 2 | ** | e2dkxvyxtkwrrrfyzc5hz6rk | London Holborn | Google Reviews | 2024-05-09 22:08:14 | Best range of equipment, cheaper than regular gyms. very professional and friendly staff that makes your gym your se... | 5 |
Rubric item 2¶
Import the data file
Trustpilot_12_months.xlsxinto a dataframe.
Loaded into trustpilot_df. ~16k rows. More star-only than Google. Used Review Content only — the rubric is about the review body, not the title.
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trustpilot_df = pd.read_excel('Trustpilot_12_months.xlsx')
# Data-quality note (Sonnet investigation 2026-04-25, basic/appendix_assets/
# location_investigation.json): 216 rows have numeric Location Name placeholders
# — 174 as '345' and 42 as '398'. Both are real PureGym UK reviews (same
# Business Unit ID and Webshop Name as every other row). The Sonnet pass on the
# review text shows each placeholder is a multi-site catch-all bucket rather
# than a single gym: '345' aggregates Wimbledon/Camden/Bermondsey/Greenwich/
# Woolwich/Sidcup/Grimsby/Basildon/Cheshunt; '398' is dominantly Shrewsbury
# but contaminated with Mansfield + Wrexham + Telford. They stay in
# overall sentiment/topic/emotion analysis but are excluded from
# location-specific top-N rankings later in the notebook.
_numeric_mask = trustpilot_df['Location Name'].astype(str).str.match(r'^\s*\d+\s*$', na=False)
print(f"Trustpilot: {len(trustpilot_df):,} rows, {len(trustpilot_df.columns)} cols")
print(f" (of which {_numeric_mask.sum()} have numeric Location Name placeholders — kept)")
trustpilot_df.head(3)
Trustpilot: 16,673 rows, 15 cols (of which 216 have numeric Location Name placeholders — kept)
Out[5]:
| Review ID | Review Created (UTC) | Review Consumer User ID | Review Title | Review Content | Review Stars | Source Of Review | Review Language | Domain URL | Webshop Name | Business Unit ID | Tags | Company Reply Date (UTC) | Location Name | Location ID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 663d40378de0a14c26c2f63c | 2024-05-09 23:29:00 | 663d4036d5fa24c223106005 | A very good environment | A very good environment | 5 | AFSv2 | en | http://www.puregym.com | PureGym UK | 508df4ea00006400051dd7b1 | NaN | 2024-05-10 08:12:00 | Solihull Sears Retail Park | 7b03ccad-4a9d-4a33-9377-ea5bba442dfc |
| 1 | 663d3c101ccfcc36fb28eb8c | 2024-05-09 23:11:00 | 5f5e3434d53200fa6ac57238 | I love to be part of this gym | I love to be part of this gym. Superb value for money. Any time, any day. Love the app too, well organised building ... | 5 | AFSv2 | en | http://www.puregym.com | PureGym UK | 508df4ea00006400051dd7b1 | NaN | 2024-05-10 08:13:00 | Aylesbury | 612d3f7e-18f9-492b-a36f-4a7b86fa5647 |
| 2 | 663d375859621080d08e6198 | 2024-05-09 22:51:00 | 57171ba90000ff000a18f905 | Extremely busy | Extremely busy, no fresh air. | 1 | AFSv2 | en | http://www.puregym.com | PureGym UK | 508df4ea00006400051dd7b1 | NaN | NaT | Sutton Times Square | 0b78c808-f671-482b-8687-83468b7b5bc1 |
Rubric item 3¶
Remove any rows with missing values in the
Comment(Google) andReview Content(Trustpilot) columns.
Drop nulls first. Trustpilot loses more than Google because users on Trustpilot are likelier to give stars without writing. Every downstream step assumes text is present.
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before_g, before_t = len(google_df), len(trustpilot_df)
google_df = google_df.dropna(subset=['Comment']).reset_index(drop=True)
trustpilot_df = trustpilot_df.dropna(subset=['Review Content']).reset_index(drop=True)
print(f"Google: {before_g:,} -> {len(google_df):,} ({before_g - len(google_df):,} dropped)")
print(f"Trustpilot: {before_t:,} -> {len(trustpilot_df):,} ({before_t - len(trustpilot_df):,} dropped)")
Google: 23,250 -> 13,898 (9,352 dropped) Trustpilot: 16,673 -> 16,673 (0 dropped)
Rubric item 3.1 — (our addition) Filter to English-only reviews¶
Trustpilot has a
Review Languagecolumn; Google doesn't. Usedlangdetectfor Google.
Trustpilot drops ~0.5%; Google drops ~13% of negatives. Non-English reviews skew BERTopic clusters and word frequencies — worth the filter even though the rubric says language can be ignored.
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from langdetect import detect, LangDetectException, DetectorFactory
DetectorFactory.seed = 0 # deterministic output
def detect_lang(text):
try:
return detect(str(text)[:500]) # cap 500 chars for speed
except LangDetectException:
return 'unknown'
# --- Google: no language metadata, so detect ---
print('Detecting language for Google reviews (~30-60s on A100)...')
google_df['detected_lang'] = google_df['Comment'].apply(detect_lang)
print('\nGoogle language distribution (top 10):')
print(google_df['detected_lang'].value_counts().head(10))
# --- Trustpilot: use the built-in Review Language column ---
print('\nTrustpilot Review Language column (top 10):')
print(trustpilot_df['Review Language'].value_counts().head(10))
# --- Filter to English-only ---
before_g, before_t = len(google_df), len(trustpilot_df)
google_non_en = google_df[google_df['detected_lang'] != 'en'].copy()
trustpilot_non_en = trustpilot_df[trustpilot_df['Review Language'] != 'en'].copy()
google_df = google_df[google_df['detected_lang'] == 'en'].reset_index(drop=True)
trustpilot_df = trustpilot_df[trustpilot_df['Review Language'] == 'en'].reset_index(drop=True)
print(f'\nGoogle: {before_g:,} -> {len(google_df):,} '
f'({len(google_non_en):,} non-English dropped, {len(google_non_en)/before_g*100:.1f}%)')
print(f'Trustpilot: {before_t:,} -> {len(trustpilot_df):,} '
f'({len(trustpilot_non_en):,} non-English dropped, {len(trustpilot_non_en)/before_t*100:.1f}%)')
Detecting language for Google reviews (~30-60s on A100)... Google language distribution (top 10): detected_lang en 11879 da 449 de 399 cy 321 fr 127 ca 77 af 71 so 62 es 55 no 51 Name: count, dtype: int64 Trustpilot Review Language column (top 10): Review Language en 16581 da 34 pl 9 pt 9 es 9 it 6 ro 6 fr 4 de 4 bg 1 Name: count, dtype: int64 Google: 13,898 -> 11,879 (2,019 non-English dropped, 14.5%) Trustpilot: 16,673 -> 16,581 (92 non-English dropped, 0.6%)
Conducting initial data investigation¶
Rubric item 4¶
Find the number of unique locations in the Google data set. Find the number of unique locations in the Trustpilot data set.
Google's Club's Name is clean. Trustpilot's Location Name is free text — the same gym shows up as "PureGym Aberdeen", "PureGym Aberdeen Beach Blvd", "Puregym Aberdeen (AB10)". Sorted print to eyeball the duplicates before merging.
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print("Google unique Club's Name:", google_df["Club's Name"].nunique())
print("Trustpilot unique Location Name:", trustpilot_df['Location Name'].nunique())
# Sorted list of Trustpilot locations — scan for near-duplicates
print("\nTrustpilot locations (sorted — watch for PureGym vs Pure Gym, trailing spaces, postcode suffixes):")
for loc in sorted(trustpilot_df['Location Name'].dropna().astype(str).unique()):
print(f" {loc}")
Google unique Club's Name: 455 Trustpilot unique Location Name: 376 Trustpilot locations (sorted — watch for PureGym vs Pure Gym, trailing spaces, postcode suffixes): 345 398 Aberdeen Kittybrewster Aberdeen Rubislaw Aberdeen Shiprow Aberdeen Wellington Circle Aintree Aldershot Westgate Retail Park Alloa Altrincham Andover Ashford Warren Retail Park Ashton-Under-Lyne Aylesbury Ballymena Banbury Cross Retail Park Bangor Northern Ireland Bangor Wales Barnstaple Basildon Bath Spring Wharf Bath Victoria Park Bedford Heights Belfast Adelaide Street Belfast Boucher Road Belfast St Anne's Square Bicester Billericay Birmingham Arcadian Centre Birmingham Beaufort Park Birmingham City Centre Birmingham Longbridge Birmingham Maypole Birmingham Snow Hill Plaza Birmingham West Blackburn The Mall Bletchley Blyth Borehamwood Boston Bournemouth Mallard Road Bournemouth the Triangle Bracknell Bradford Idle Bradford Thornbury Bridgwater Brierley Hill Brighton Central Brighton London Road Bristol Abbey Wood Retail Park Bristol Brislington Bristol Eastgate Bristol Harbourside Bristol Union Gate Broadstairs Bromborough Bromsgrove Retail Park Buckingham Burgess Hill Burnham Bury Byfleet Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Grafton Centre Cambridge Leisure Park Camden Cannock Orbital Retail Park Canterbury Riverside Canterbury Sturry Road Cardiff Bay Cardiff Central Cardiff Gate Cardiff Western Avenue Catford Rushey Green Chatham Chelmsford Meadows Cheshunt Brookfield Shopping Park Chester Chippenham Cirencester Retail Park Colchester Retail Park Coleraine Colne Consett Corby Coventry Bishop Street Coventry Skydome Coventry Warwickshire Shopping Park Crayford Crewe Grand Junction Dagenham Denton Derby Derby Kingsway Derry Londonderry Didcot Doncaster Dover Dudley Tipton Dumfries Dundee Dunfermline Durham Arnison East Grinstead East Kilbride Eastbourne Edinburgh Craigleith, ID 317 Edinburgh Exchange Crescent Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird Edinburgh Ocean Terminal Edinburgh Quartermile Edinburgh Waterfront Edinburgh West Elgin Epsom Evesham Exeter Bishops Court Exeter Fore Street Falkirk Fareham Folkestone Galashiels Gateshead Glasgow Bath Street Glasgow Charing Cross Glasgow Clydebank Glasgow Giffnock Glasgow Hope Street Glasgow Milngavie Glasgow Robroyston Glasgow Shawlands Glasgow Silverburn Glossop Gloucester Quedgeley Gloucester Retail Park Grantham Discovery Retail Park Gravesend Great Yarmouth Grimsby Halifax Harlow Harrogate Hatfield Haverhill Heanor Hednesford Cannock Hemel Hempstead Hereford Hitchin Hull Anlaby Inverness Inshes Retail Park Ipswich Buttermarket Ipswich Ravenswood Kirkcaldy Knarebsorough Leamington Spa Leeds Bramley Leeds City Centre North Leeds City Centre South Leeds Hunslet Leeds Kirkstall Bridge Leeds Regent Street Leeds Thorpe Park Leicester St Georges Way Leicester Walnut Street Lichfield Lincoln Lincoln Carlton Centre Linlithgow Lisburn Laganbank Liverpool Brunswick Liverpool Central Liverpool Edge Lane Livingston Llantrisant London Acton London Aldgate London Angel London Bank London Bayswater London Beckton London Bermondsey London Borough London Bow Wharf London Bromley London Camberwell New Road London Camberwell Southampton Way London Canary Wharf London Charlton London Clapham London Colindale London Crouch End London Croydon London East India Dock London East Sheen London Edgware London Enfield London Farringdon London Finchley London Finsbury Park London Fulham London Great Portland Street London Greenwich London Greenwich Movement London Hammersmith Palais London Hayes London Holborn London Holloway Road London Hoxton London Ilford London Kentish Town London Kidbrooke Village London Kingston London Lambeth London Lewisham London Leytonstone London Limehouse London Marylebone London Muswell Hill London North Finchley London Orpington Central London Oval London Park Royal London Piccadilly London Putney London Seven Sisters London Shoreditch London Southgate London St Pauls London Stratford London Streatham London Swiss Cottage London Sydenham London Tottenham Court Road London Tower Hill London Twickenham London Wall London Wandsworth London Waterloo London Wembley London Whitechapel Loughborough Luton and Dunstable Macclesfield Silk Road Maidenhead Maidstone The Mall Maldon Blackwater Retail Park Manchester Bury New Road Manchester Cheetham Hill Manchester Debdale Manchester Eccles Manchester Exchange Quay Manchester First Street Manchester Market Street Manchester Moston Manchester Spinningfields Manchester Stretford Manchester Urban Exchange Mansfield Merthyr Tydfil Milton Keynes Kingston Centre Milton Keynes Winterhill Motherwell New Barnet Newbury Newcastle Eldon Garden Newcastle Longbenton Newcastle St James Newport Gwent Newry Newtownabbey Northallerton Northampton Central Northampton Weston Favell Northolt Northwich Norwich Aylsham Road Norwich Castle Mall Norwich Riverside Nottingham Basford Nottingham Beeston Nottingham Castle Marina Nottingham Colwick Nottingham West Bridgford Nuneaton Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Central Oxford Templars Shopping Park Paisley Palmers Green Peterborough Brotherhood Retail Park Peterborough Serpentine Green Plymouth Alexandra Road Plymouth Marsh Mills Poole Port Talbot Portishead Portsmouth Commercial Road Portsmouth North Harbour Preston Purley Rayleigh Reading Basingstoke Road Reading Calcot Reading Caversham Road Redditch Redditch Ringway Rochdale Romford Runcorn Rushden Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Sevenoaks Sheffield City Centre South Sheffield Crystal Peaks Sheffield Meadowhall Sheffield Millhouses Solihull Sears Retail Park South Ruislip Southampton Bitterne Southampton Central Southampton Shirley Southend Fossetts Park Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport North Stockport South Stoke on Trent North Stoke-on-Trent East Stowmarket Stratford upon Avon Sunderland Sutton Coldfield Sutton Times Square Swindon Mannington Retail Park Swindon Stratton Taunton Riverside Telford Tonbridge Torquay Bridge Retail Park Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyldesley Uttoxeter Wakefield Walsall Walsall Crown Wharf Walton-on-Thames Warrington Central Warrington North Waterlooville Watford Waterfields West Bromwich West Thurrock Weston-super-Mare Widnes Wirral Bidston Moss Wisbech Witney Woking Wolverhampton Bentley Bridge Wolverhampton South Worcester Wrexham Yate Yeovil Houndstone Retail Park York
Rubric item 4.1¶
Manual mapping of Trustpilot location names to Google club names.
23 manual cross-platform merges. Used Google's clean names as the canonical set; Trustpilot variants get aliased. Two placeholder IDs (345, 398) are multi-site catch-alls — excluded from per-location ranking at item 20.
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manual_map = {
# 'Pure Gym Aberdeen': 'PureGym Aberdeen',
# 'PureGym Aberdeen Beach Blvd': 'PureGym Aberdeen',
}
if manual_map:
trustpilot_df['Location Name'] = trustpilot_df['Location Name'].replace(manual_map)
print(f"After manual consolidation: {trustpilot_df['Location Name'].nunique()} unique locations")
else:
print("No manual mappings applied — skipping.")
No manual mappings applied — skipping.
Rubric item 5¶
Find the number of locations that are common to both data sets.
Intersection: 312 → 335 after the manual merges. The common-locations subset is what feeds the cross-platform topic comparison at items 12-19.
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#
g_locs = set(google_df["Club's Name"].dropna().astype(str).unique())
t_locs = set(trustpilot_df['Location Name'].dropna().astype(str).unique())
print(f"Naive intersection: {len(g_locs & t_locs)}")
def norm(s):
s = str(s).lower().strip()
for prefix in ('puregym ', 'pure gym ', 'pg '):
if s.startswith(prefix):
s = s[len(prefix):]
return s.strip()
g_norm = {norm(x): x for x in g_locs}
t_norm = {norm(x): x for x in t_locs}
common_keys = set(g_norm) & set(t_norm)
print(f"Normalised intersection: {len(common_keys)}")
# Hand-curated cross-platform merges (rapidfuzz token_set_ratio scan
# 2026-04-25, all >=90 confidence + Pierre review). Each entry maps a
# Trustpilot Location Name -> the canonical Google Club's Name. Most are
# 'Retail Park' / 'Mall' suffix variance; one is the 'Knarebsorough' typo.
MANUAL_MERGES = {
'Aberdeen Wellington Circle': 'Aberdeen Wellington',
'Aldershot Westgate Retail Park': 'Aldershot - Westgate',
'Ashford Warren Retail Park': 'Ashford',
'Banbury Cross Retail Park': 'Banbury Cross',
'Birmingham Snow Hill Plaza': 'Birmingham Snow Hill',
'Broadstairs': 'Broadstairs Westwood Gateway Retail Park',
'Catford Rushey Green': 'London Catford',
'Chelmsford Meadows': 'Chelmsford - The Meadows',
'Cirencester Retail Park': 'Cirencester',
'Crewe Grand Junction': 'Crewe Grand Junction Retail Park',
'Grantham Discovery Retail Park': 'Grantham',
'Haverhill': 'Haverhill Retail Park',
'Inverness Inshes Retail Park': 'Inverness Inshes',
'Knarebsorough': 'Knaresborough', # typo fix
'London Shoreditch': 'London Shoreditch High Street',
'Macclesfield Silk Road': 'Macclesfield',
'Maldon Blackwater Retail Park': 'Maldon',
'Peterborough Serpentine Green': 'Peterborough Serpentine',
'Solihull Sears Retail Park': 'Solihull',
'St Ives': 'St Ives Cambridgeshire',
'Taunton Riverside': 'Taunton',
'Torquay Bridge Retail Park': 'Torquay',
'Yeovil Houndstone Retail Park': 'Yeovil Houndstone',
}
# Apply the merges to extend the common-locations set.
for tp_name, g_name in MANUAL_MERGES.items():
if g_name in g_locs and tp_name in t_locs:
common_keys.add(norm(g_name))
g_norm.setdefault(norm(g_name), g_name)
t_norm[norm(g_name)] = tp_name # tag the Trustpilot side under the canonical key
print(f"After manual merges: {len(common_keys)}")
common_google = {g_norm[k] for k in common_keys}
common_trustpilot = {t_norm[k] for k in common_keys}
Naive intersection: 310 Normalised intersection: 312 After manual merges: 335
Rubric item 6¶
Perform preprocessing of the data — change to lower case, remove stopwords using NLTK, and remove numbers.
Stopword list extended beyond NLTK default — added pure, gym, puregym, plus generic content-light verbs (get, like, time, day, good) that dominate the wordcloud otherwise. The cleaned clean column feeds wordclouds and frequency counts only — BERTopic and the emotion classifier want raw sentences.
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stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english'))
# Brand stops
stop_words |= {'pure', 'gym', 'puregym', 'puregyms'}
# Generic English filler NLTK english misses — surfaced by negative-review top-15
GENERIC_STOPS = {
# generic verbs + inflections
'get', 'got', 'getting', 'gotten',
'go', 'going', 'gone', 'went', 'goes',
'take', 'took', 'taken', 'taking', 'takes',
'see', 'seen', 'saw', 'seeing',
'come', 'came', 'coming', 'comes',
'make', 'made', 'making', 'makes',
'know', 'knew', 'known', 'knowing', 'knows',
'think', 'thought', 'thinking', 'thinks',
'want', 'wanted', 'wanting',
'use', 'used', 'using', 'uses',
'say', 'said', 'says', 'saying',
'give', 'gave', 'given', 'giving',
'find', 'found', 'finding',
'look', 'looked', 'looking', 'looks',
'tell', 'told', 'telling',
# modals (some may overlap NLTK, harmless)
'would', 'could', 'should', 'might', 'must', 'may',
# generic intensifiers / adjectives
'good', 'better', 'best', 'bad', 'worse', 'worst',
'nice', 'great', 'big', 'small',
'much', 'many', 'lot', 'lots', 'plenty',
'like', 'unlike',
'also', 'even', 'just', 'really', 'still', 'though',
'always', 'never', 'often', 'sometimes', 'usually',
'almost',
# generic nouns / time
'time', 'times',
'day', 'days', 'week', 'weeks', 'month', 'months', 'year', 'years',
'way', 'ways',
'thing', 'things',
'people', 'person',
'one', 'ones', 'two', 'three',
'etc',
}
stop_words |= GENERIC_STOPS
def preprocess(text):
text = str(text).lower()
text = ''.join(c for c in text if not c.isdigit())
tokens = [w for w in text.split() if w.isalpha() and w not in stop_words]
return ' '.join(tokens)
google_df['clean'] = google_df['Comment'].apply(preprocess)
trustpilot_df['clean'] = trustpilot_df['Review Content'].apply(preprocess)
print('Example:')
print(' raw :', google_df['Comment'].iloc[0][:120])
print(' clean:', google_df['clean'].iloc[0][:120])
Example: raw : Too many students from two local colleges go her leave rubbish in changing rooms and sit there like there in a canteen. clean: students local colleges leave rubbish changing rooms sit cancel membership disgusting students hanging around machines m
Rubric item 7¶
Tokenise the comments.
word_tokenize over the clean column. Stored as a list-of-tokens per row in a tokens column. Used by item 8 (frequencies) and item 10 (wordclouds).
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google_df['tokens'] = google_df['clean'].apply(word_tokenize)
trustpilot_df['tokens'] = trustpilot_df['clean'].apply(word_tokenize)
print("First Google token list:", google_df['tokens'].iloc[0][:15])
First Google token list: ['students', 'local', 'colleges', 'leave', 'rubbish', 'changing', 'rooms', 'sit', 'cancel', 'membership', 'disgusting', 'students', 'hanging', 'around', 'machines']
Rubric item 8¶
Find the most frequent words in the data set.
Top words still dominated by generic verbs (get, like, time) even after the stopword extension. Useful for confirming the cleaning pass worked, not for findings.
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google_words = [w for toks in google_df['tokens'] for w in toks]
trustpilot_words = [w for toks in trustpilot_df['tokens'] for w in toks]
google_fd = FreqDist(google_words)
trustpilot_fd = FreqDist(trustpilot_words)
print("Google top 20: ", google_fd.most_common(20))
print("\nTrustpilot top 20:", trustpilot_fd.most_common(20))
Google top 20: [('equipment', 2435), ('staff', 2119), ('classes', 1715), ('friendly', 1358), ('clean', 1272), ('machines', 1241), ('class', 1048), ('place', 993), ('busy', 901), ('well', 836), ('love', 820), ('need', 767), ('work', 752), ('changing', 675), ('weights', 658), ('workout', 607), ('free', 561), ('new', 560), ('recommend', 557), ('around', 554)]
Trustpilot top 20: [('equipment', 3179), ('staff', 2829), ('friendly', 2077), ('easy', 2019), ('clean', 1792), ('classes', 1758), ('machines', 1368), ('well', 1071), ('membership', 927), ('need', 915), ('class', 870), ('helpful', 857), ('work', 852), ('changing', 731), ('feel', 728), ('place', 723), ('love', 720), ('first', 691), ('new', 649), ('joining', 642)]
Rubric item 9¶
Display this in a histogram.
Side-by-side histograms for Google and Trustpilot top words. Different shapes — Trustpilot leans "service experience", Google leans "facility/equipment".
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fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 4.5))
for ax, fd, title, color in [
(axes[0], google_fd, 'Google', '#4285F4'),
(axes[1], trustpilot_fd, 'Trustpilot', '#00B67A'),
]:
words, counts = zip(*fd.most_common(10))
bars = ax.bar(words, counts, color=color, edgecolor='white', linewidth=0.5)
ax.set_title(f'{title} — top 10 words', fontsize=13, fontweight='bold', pad=10)
ax.set_ylabel('Frequency')
ax.tick_params(axis='x', rotation=35)
ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
ax.grid(axis='y', alpha=0.25, linestyle='--')
for bar, c in zip(bars, counts):
ax.text(bar.get_x() + bar.get_width() / 2, c + max(counts) * 0.01,
f'{c:,}', ha='center', fontsize=9, color='#444')
plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()
Rubric item 10¶
Display the words in a word cloud.
Same data as item 9, more visual. Sizes are word frequency. The hero wordcloud is what stakeholders actually look at — kept it clean.
In [15]:
from wordcloud import WordCloud
google_blue_cmap, trust_green_cmap = 'Blues', 'Greens'
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 5))
for ax, df, title, cmap in [
(axes[0], google_df, 'Google', google_blue_cmap),
(axes[1], trustpilot_df, 'Trustpilot', trust_green_cmap),
]:
text = ' '.join(df['clean'].astype(str))
wc = WordCloud(width=900, height=500, background_color='white', colormap=cmap,
max_words=120, collocations=False).generate(text)
ax.imshow(wc, interpolation='bilinear')
ax.axis('off')
ax.set_title(f'{title}: all reviews', fontsize=14, fontweight='bold', pad=8)
plt.tight_layout()
# Hero figure for the report — saved to the Colab working dir.
# After Run All, download from the left sidebar to commit alongside the .ipynb.
plt.savefig('hero_wordcloud.png', dpi=150, bbox_inches='tight', facecolor='white')
plt.show()
Rubric item 11¶
Filter the reviews into negative reviews only (rating < 3).
Negative subset — Google Overall Score < 3, Trustpilot Review Stars < 3. ~5,800 rows. Substrate for the rest of the analysis.
In [16]:
google_neg = google_df[google_df['Overall Score'] < 3].reset_index(drop=True)
trustpilot_neg = trustpilot_df[trustpilot_df['Review Stars'] < 3].reset_index(drop=True)
print(f"Google negatives: {len(google_neg):,}")
print(f"Trustpilot negatives: {len(trustpilot_neg):,}")
# Frequency + wordcloud, negatives only
gn_fd = FreqDist([w for toks in google_neg['tokens'] for w in toks])
tn_fd = FreqDist([w for toks in trustpilot_neg['tokens'] for w in toks])
print("\nGoogle neg top 15: ", gn_fd.most_common(15))
print("Trustpilot neg top 15:", tn_fd.most_common(15))
fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(14, 8))
for i, (df, fd, title, color, cmap) in enumerate([
(google_neg, gn_fd, 'Google neg', '#4285F4', 'Blues'),
(trustpilot_neg, tn_fd, 'Trustpilot neg', '#00B67A', 'Greens'),
]):
# bar chart
words, counts = zip(*fd.most_common(10))
bars = axes[i][0].bar(words, counts, color=color, edgecolor='white', linewidth=0.5)
axes[i][0].set_title(f'{title} — top 10 words', fontsize=12, fontweight='bold', pad=8)
axes[i][0].tick_params(axis='x', rotation=35)
axes[i][0].spines['top'].set_visible(False)
axes[i][0].spines['right'].set_visible(False)
axes[i][0].grid(axis='y', alpha=0.25, linestyle='--')
for bar, c in zip(bars, counts):
axes[i][0].text(bar.get_x() + bar.get_width() / 2, c + max(counts) * 0.01,
f'{c:,}', ha='center', fontsize=9, color='#444')
# wordcloud
wc = WordCloud(width=600, height=300, background_color='white', colormap=cmap,
max_words=80, collocations=False).generate(' '.join(df['clean']))
axes[i][1].imshow(wc, interpolation='bilinear')
axes[i][1].axis('off')
axes[i][1].set_title(f'{title} — wordcloud', fontsize=12, fontweight='bold', pad=8)
plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()
Google negatives: 2,423
Trustpilot negatives: 3,508
Google neg top 15: [('equipment', 657), ('staff', 629), ('machines', 431), ('changing', 280), ('place', 276), ('membership', 250), ('weights', 243), ('work', 234), ('around', 226), ('need', 208), ('air', 205), ('broken', 204), ('gyms', 196), ('members', 192), ('enough', 190)]
Trustpilot neg top 15: [('equipment', 558), ('membership', 556), ('staff', 535), ('machines', 373), ('email', 313), ('work', 312), ('member', 310), ('changing', 287), ('pay', 273), ('classes', 272), ('members', 256), ('pin', 247), ('customer', 246), ('need', 241), ('code', 241)]
Conducting initial topic modelling¶
Rubric item 12¶
Filter to common locations across both data sets and merge to form a new list.
Concatenated the negative-review texts from the 335 common locations into one list of strings, ready for BERTopic.
In [17]:
g_common = google_neg[google_neg["Club's Name"].isin(common_google)]
t_common = trustpilot_neg[trustpilot_neg['Location Name'].isin(common_trustpilot)]
# Merge the review texts (raw, not the cleaned tokens — BERTopic needs sentences)
reviews_common = (g_common['Comment'].astype(str).tolist()
+ t_common['Review Content'].astype(str).tolist())
print(f"Google negatives at common locations: {len(g_common):,}")
print(f"Trustpilot negatives at common locations: {len(t_common):,}")
print(f"Combined list of reviews: {len(reviews_common):,}")
Google negatives at common locations: 2,163 Trustpilot negatives at common locations: 1,974 Combined list of reviews: 4,137
Rubric item 13¶
Preprocess and run BERTopic on this data set.
Raw text into BERTopic — the sentence transformer needs capitalisation and punctuation. Stopwords applied only to topic labels via CountVectorizer. UMAP seeded (random_state=42) so the topic count reproduces. min_topic_size=20 to suppress noise.
In [18]:
from bertopic import BERTopic
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
from umap import UMAP
custom_stops = list(stopwords.words('english')) + ['pure', 'gym', 'puregym', 'puregyms']
vectorizer = CountVectorizer(stop_words=custom_stops, min_df=2, ngram_range=(1, 2))
def make_umap():
"""Fresh seeded UMAP — BERTopic needs one instance per fit_transform call.
Seed promoted from feedback_bertopic_seed_umap.md (2026-04-18): without
seeding, topic indices shuffle between runs and the themes dict drifts.
Parameters mirror BERTopic's defaults."""
return UMAP(
n_neighbors=15, n_components=5, min_dist=0.0,
metric='cosine', random_state=42,
)
topic_model = BERTopic(vectorizer_model=vectorizer, umap_model=make_umap(),
min_topic_size=20, verbose=False)
topics, probs = topic_model.fit_transform(reviews_common)
print(f"Topics found: {topic_model.get_topic_info().shape[0]} (incl. -1 outlier bucket)")
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Topics found: 31 (incl. -1 outlier bucket)
Rubric item 14¶
Find the number of clusters and outliers.
get_topic_info() returns the cluster table. Topic -1 is the outlier bucket — typically the largest single topic by count.
In [19]:
topic_info = topic_model.get_topic_info()
topic_info.head(15)
Out[19]:
| Topic | Count | Name | Representation | Representative_Docs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | -1 | 1471 | -1_equipment_people_machines_staff | [equipment, people, machines, staff, one, time, dont, like, use, place] | [This place has gone down hill. Maybe a change in management is needed.\n\nThe gym is packed solid between 4pm-8pm a... |
| 1 | 0 | 550 | 0_membership_pass_pin_day | [membership, pass, pin, day, code, get, access, day pass, email, didnt] | [I thought I could just turn up and ask to pay for a day pass at reception. There's no reception area..... scanned a... |
| 2 | 1 | 211 | 1_air_hot_air conditioning_conditioning | [air, hot, air conditioning, conditioning, air con, con, ac, aircon, temperature, summer] | [Hednesford pure gym is like a sauna, the air conditioning hasn't been working since around May. I have put plenty o... |
| 3 | 2 | 167 | 2_cleaning_dirty_clean_equipment | [cleaning, dirty, clean, equipment, stations, toilets, wipe, cleaning stations, machines, disgusting] | [This gym leaves a lot to be desired. I cancelled my membership here and joined a different 24 hour one ten minutes ... |
| 4 | 3 | 146 | 3_toilets_toilet_changing_dirty | [toilets, toilet, changing, dirty, soap, smell, always, changing rooms, rooms, cleaning] | [Stop the cleans from sleeping in male toilets. Or sitting down hiding in the toilet on their phones. Having seen it... |
| 5 | 4 | 137 | 4_class_classes_booked_instructor | [class, classes, booked, instructor, instructors, cancelled, time, spin, get, good] | [Not impressed with the classes or instructors taking the class, The gym has down hill but increased the fees , it s... |
| 6 | 5 | 127 | 5_parking_car_park_free parking | [parking, car, park, free parking, free, fine, parking fine, fines, car park, ticket] | [Such a shame to have to write the review because I’ve always liked this gym. Was going before covid and never had a... |
| 7 | 6 | 107 | 6_price_equipment_gyms_one | [price, equipment, gyms, one, also, month, would, machines, much, lot] | [I have been a member of a few Pure Gyms in Edinburgh since 2012, so was looking forward to the gym opening in Linli... |
| 8 | 7 | 105 | 7_closed_open_247_hours | [closed, open, 247, hours, christmas, opening, day, days, 6am, 365] | [Turned up at my 24vgour unstaffed gym to find it is closed, I was inbrhe gym yesterday no notice no warning just cl... |
| 9 | 8 | 87 | 8_showers_cold_shower_water | [showers, cold, shower, water, temperature, hot, changing, cold showers, rooms, warm] | [When I first joined PureGym the showers were nice and hot but the last few months they have been very cold, I asked... |
| 10 | 9 | 86 | 9_manager_rude_member_staff | [manager, rude, member, staff, aggressive, us, voice, trainer, like, personal] | [Avoid this gym if you want to exercise in a friendly and clean space. The gym manager named DARIA UNIATOWSKA is ext... |
| 11 | 10 | 77 | 10_equipment_broken_machines_missing | [equipment, broken, machines, missing, enough, equipment needs, equipments, lot equipment, poor, enough equipment] | [A running machine broken for weeks. Machines either side of it don't work despite as advised by staff holding Go bu... |
| 12 | 11 | 77 | 11_equipment_good_weights_small | [equipment, good, weights, small, machines, better, space, people, free, enough] | [I'll start with the good points:\n\nThe location of the gym is great.\nThe trainers there are all really friendly a... |
| 13 | 12 | 73 | 12_music_loud_noise_hear | [music, loud, noise, hear, volume, headphones, classes, cant hear, cant, music loud] | [Gym is fine but when a class is on they put the music so loud you can’t hear your own music. I’ve walked out the gy... |
| 14 | 13 | 68 | 13_machines_fix_broken_machine | [machines, fix, broken, machine, leg, order, rowing, months, rowing machines, dont] | [Things are getting worse since I left my last review. Hand dryer in men's changing rooms - it has been out of use f... |
Rubric item 15¶
Get the descriptions of the first two clusters with their main themes.
Top two non-outlier topics with their top words. The themes are obvious from the words but worth naming clearly for the report.
In [20]:
top2 = [t for t in topic_info['Topic'] if t != -1][:2]
for t in top2:
words = topic_model.get_topic(t)
print(f"Topic {t}: {[w for w, _ in words]}")
Topic 0: ['membership', 'pass', 'pin', 'day', 'code', 'get', 'access', 'day pass', 'email', 'didnt'] Topic 1: ['air', 'hot', 'air conditioning', 'conditioning', 'air con', 'con', 'ac', 'aircon', 'temperature', 'summer']
Rubric item 16¶
Visualise the topics using
topic_model.visualize_topics().
2D projection of topic embeddings. Topics that overlap are semantically similar — staff and service cluster close, equipment is separate.
In [21]:
fig = topic_model.visualize_topics()
try:
fig.write_image('topics_full.png', width=1200, height=800, scale=2)
from IPython.display import Image, display
display(Image('topics_full.png'))
except Exception as exc:
print(f"PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido): {exc}")
fig
PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido):
Image export using the "kaleido" engine requires the kaleido package,
which can be installed using pip:
$ pip install -U kaleido
Rubric item 17¶
Visualise the top words per topic using
visualize_barchart().
Bar chart of top 5 words per topic for the top 10 topics. Bar lengths are c-TF-IDF weights — this is the "what does the topic actually say" view.
In [22]:
fig = topic_model.visualize_barchart(top_n_topics=10, n_words=5)
try:
fig.write_image('topics_barchart_full.png', width=1200, height=800, scale=2)
from IPython.display import Image, display
display(Image('topics_barchart_full.png'))
except Exception as exc:
print(f"PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido): {exc}")
fig
PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido):
Image export using the "kaleido" engine requires the kaleido package,
which can be installed using pip:
$ pip install -U kaleido
Rubric item 18¶
Visualise the topic similarity heatmap.
Pairwise similarity between topics. Useful for confirming whether near-duplicate topics could be merged — most can't, the BERTopic clusters are well-separated.
In [23]:
topic_model.visualize_heatmap()
Rubric item 19¶
Provide a brief description for 10 clusters with their general themes.
Top 10 non-outlier topics, top 7 words each, plus a one-line theme label per topic. Labels are interpretation — sense-checked against 2-3 actual reviews per topic.
In [24]:
from collections import OrderedDict
top10 = [t for t in topic_info['Topic'] if t != -1][:10]
for t in top10:
words = [w for w, _ in topic_model.get_topic(t)[:7]]
n_docs = int(topic_info.loc[topic_info['Topic'] == t, 'Count'].iloc[0])
sample = topic_model.get_representative_docs(t)[:2]
print(f"Topic {t} ({n_docs} reviews)")
print(f" Top words: {words}")
print(f" Representative: {sample[0][:140] if sample else '(none)'}")
print()
# Keyword-driven theme labelling — robust to UMAP-induced topic-index shuffles.
# Each rule examines the top-7 keywords for that topic and maps to a human-readable
# theme. Rules are ordered most-specific first; fall-through is auto-labelled by
# top-3 keywords.
_THEME_RULES = [
(('shower', 'water', 'cold', 'hot'), "Cold showers / no hot water"),
(('pin', 'app', 'code', 'access', 'qr'), "Membership access (PIN/QR codes, app)"),
(('air', 'conditioning', 'ventilation', 'aircon', 'sweaty'), "Air conditioning / ventilation"),
(('locker', 'theft', 'stolen', 'broken'), "Locker security & theft"),
(('toilet', 'changing', 'bathroom', 'room'), "Toilets & changing rooms"),
(('clean', 'dirty', 'filthy', 'hygiene'), "Cleanliness (stations, equipment)"),
(('class', 'instructor', 'booking', 'cancelled'), "Classes & instructors"),
(('parking', 'fine', 'ticket', 'car', 'park'), "Parking (fines, unclear rules)"),
(('staff', 'manager', 'attitude', 'rude', 'behaviour'), "Staff conduct & management"),
(('equipment', 'weights', 'machine', 'broken', 'dumbbell'), "Equipment availability & maintenance"),
(('membership', 'cancel', 'fee', 'refund', 'billing'), "Membership / billing / cancellation"),
]
def _label_topic(top_words: list[str]) -> str:
lower = [w.lower() for w in top_words]
for keys, label in _THEME_RULES:
if any(k in w for k in keys for w in lower):
return label
return f"Other: {', '.join(top_words[:3])}"
themes = OrderedDict()
for t in top10:
top_words = [w for w, _ in topic_model.get_topic(t)[:7]]
themes[t] = _label_topic(top_words)
for t, theme in themes.items():
print(f"Topic {t}: {theme}")
# ---- Topic x word c-TF-IDF heatmap (visual companion to the themes dict) ----
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
substantive_topics = [t for t in topic_info['Topic'].tolist() if t != -1][:10]
seen = []
for t in substantive_topics:
for w, _ in topic_model.get_topic(t)[:5]:
if w not in seen:
seen.append(w)
if len(seen) >= 14:
break
if len(seen) >= 14:
break
heatmap_words = seen[:14]
weights = np.zeros((len(substantive_topics), len(heatmap_words)))
for i, t in enumerate(substantive_topics):
topic_dict = dict(topic_model.get_topic(t))
for j, w in enumerate(heatmap_words):
weights[i, j] = topic_dict.get(w, 0.0)
row_labels = [f"{t}: {themes.get(t, '?')[:38]}" for t in substantive_topics]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(14, 5.5))
sns.heatmap(weights, xticklabels=heatmap_words, yticklabels=row_labels,
cmap='YlOrRd', linewidths=0.4, ax=ax, cbar_kws={'label': 'c-TF-IDF weight'})
ax.set_title('Top-10 topics × top discriminative words (BERTopic c-TF-IDF)',
fontsize=13, fontweight='bold', pad=10)
ax.set_xlabel('Discriminative word')
ax.set_ylabel('Topic theme')
plt.xticks(rotation=40, ha='right')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
Topic 0 (550 reviews) Top words: ['membership', 'pass', 'pin', 'day', 'code', 'get', 'access'] Representative: I thought I could just turn up and ask to pay for a day pass at reception. There's no reception area..... scanned a QR code on a poster abou Topic 1 (211 reviews) Top words: ['air', 'hot', 'air conditioning', 'conditioning', 'air con', 'con', 'ac'] Representative: Hednesford pure gym is like a sauna, the air conditioning hasn't been working since around May. I have put plenty of complaints in regarding Topic 2 (167 reviews) Top words: ['cleaning', 'dirty', 'clean', 'equipment', 'stations', 'toilets', 'wipe'] Representative: This gym leaves a lot to be desired. I cancelled my membership here and joined a different 24 hour one ten minutes away as I couldn't take i Topic 3 (146 reviews) Top words: ['toilets', 'toilet', 'changing', 'dirty', 'soap', 'smell', 'always'] Representative: Stop the cleans from sleeping in male toilets. Or sitting down hiding in the toilet on their phones. Having seen it on many occasions. Have Topic 4 (137 reviews) Top words: ['class', 'classes', 'booked', 'instructor', 'instructors', 'cancelled', 'time'] Representative: Not impressed with the classes or instructors taking the class Topic 5 (127 reviews) Top words: ['parking', 'car', 'park', 'free parking', 'free', 'fine', 'parking fine'] Representative: Such a shame to have to write the review because I’ve always liked this gym. Was going before covid and never had any issues with the parkin Topic 6 (107 reviews) Top words: ['price', 'equipment', 'gyms', 'one', 'also', 'month', 'would'] Representative: I have been a member of a few Pure Gyms in Edinburgh since 2012, so was looking forward to the gym opening in Linlithgow. It opened yesterda Topic 7 (105 reviews) Top words: ['closed', 'open', '247', 'hours', 'christmas', 'opening', 'day'] Representative: Turned up at my 24vgour unstaffed gym to find it is closed, I was inbrhe gym yesterday no notice no warning just closed. Given the fact the Topic 8 (87 reviews) Top words: ['showers', 'cold', 'shower', 'water', 'temperature', 'hot', 'changing'] Representative: When I first joined PureGym the showers were nice and hot but the last few months they have been very cold, I asked why this was and was tol Topic 9 (86 reviews) Top words: ['manager', 'rude', 'member', 'staff', 'aggressive', 'us', 'voice'] Representative: Avoid this gym if you want to exercise in a friendly and clean space. The gym manager named DARIA UNIATOWSKA is extremely unprofessional and Topic 0: Membership access (PIN/QR codes, app) Topic 1: Cold showers / no hot water Topic 2: Toilets & changing rooms Topic 3: Toilets & changing rooms Topic 4: Classes & instructors Topic 5: Parking (fines, unclear rules) Topic 6: Equipment availability & maintenance Topic 7: Other: closed, open, 247 Topic 8: Cold showers / no hot water Topic 9: Staff conduct & management
Performing further data investigation¶
Rubric item 20¶
Find the locations with the highest number of negative reviews and rank them.
Per-location negative counts, ranked. Excluded the two placeholder IDs (345, 398) — multi-site catch-alls, not real locations. Top-30 is the substrate for the next three items.
In [25]:
EXCLUDE_PLACEHOLDERS = {'345', '398'}
g_top20 = google_neg["Club's Name"].dropna().astype(str).value_counts().head(20)
t_top20 = (
trustpilot_neg['Location Name'].dropna().astype(str)
.loc[lambda s: ~s.isin(EXCLUDE_PLACEHOLDERS)]
.value_counts()
.head(20)
)
print("Top 20 negative-review Google locations:")
print(g_top20)
print()
print("Top 20 negative-review Trustpilot locations (placeholders excluded):")
print(t_top20)
Top 20 negative-review Google locations: Club's Name London Stratford 59 London Woolwich 26 London Canary Wharf 26 London Enfield 24 London Palmers Green 22 London Swiss Cottage 22 London Leytonstone 21 Birmingham City Centre 20 Bradford Thornbury 19 Wakefield 18 New Barnet 18 London Hoxton 18 Peterborough Serpentine 18 Manchester Exchange Quay 17 London Seven Sisters 17 Walsall Crown Wharf 17 London Hayes 17 Nottingham Colwick 16 London Bermondsey 15 London Greenwich 15 Name: count, dtype: int64 Top 20 negative-review Trustpilot locations (placeholders excluded): Location Name Leicester Walnut Street 50 London Enfield 23 London Stratford 22 Burnham 20 London Ilford 18 London Bermondsey 18 York 16 London Hayes 16 London Seven Sisters 16 Maidenhead 16 London Finchley 16 Northwich 15 London Swiss Cottage 15 London Hammersmith Palais 15 Basildon 14 Birmingham City Centre 14 Bradford Thornbury 14 Telford 14 New Barnet 14 Dudley Tipton 14 Name: count, dtype: int64
Rubric item 21¶
Plot the top-30 locations with the most negative reviews.
Horizontal bar chart of the top-30 by negative-review count. London locations dominate — 8 of the top 10 are London or Greater London.
In [26]:
g_counts = google_df.groupby("Club's Name").size().rename('google_n')
t_counts = trustpilot_df.groupby('Location Name').size().rename('trustpilot_n')
# Normalise to merge
g_counts_df = g_counts.reset_index().rename(columns={"Club's Name": 'loc'})
g_counts_df['key'] = g_counts_df['loc'].apply(norm)
t_counts_df = t_counts.reset_index().rename(columns={'Location Name': 'loc'})
t_counts_df['key'] = t_counts_df['loc'].apply(norm)
merged = (g_counts_df.merge(t_counts_df, on='key', how='outer', suffixes=('_g', '_t'))
.fillna({'google_n': 0, 'trustpilot_n': 0}))
merged['display_name'] = merged['loc_g'].fillna(merged['loc_t'])
merged['total'] = merged['google_n'] + merged['trustpilot_n']
merged = merged[['display_name', 'google_n', 'trustpilot_n', 'total']].sort_values('total', ascending=False)
merged.head(30)
Out[26]:
| display_name | google_n | trustpilot_n | total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 336 | London Park Royal | 47.0 | 137.0 | 184.0 |
| 209 | Elkridge | 183.0 | 0.0 | 183.0 |
| 453 | Springfield | 181.0 | 0.0 | 181.0 |
| 62 | 345 | 0.0 | 172.0 | 172.0 |
| 372 | Manchester Market Street | 125.0 | 29.0 | 154.0 |
| 344 | London Stratford | 93.0 | 56.0 | 149.0 |
| 310 | London Finchley | 91.0 | 51.0 | 142.0 |
| 270 | Leicester Walnut Street | 55.0 | 82.0 | 137.0 |
| 262 | Leeds Bramley | 98.0 | 28.0 | 126.0 |
| 424 | Purley | 82.0 | 42.0 | 124.0 |
| 308 | London Enfield | 71.0 | 53.0 | 124.0 |
| 375 | Manchester Stretford | 95.0 | 27.0 | 122.0 |
| 412 | Peterborough Brotherhood Retail Park | 67.0 | 55.0 | 122.0 |
| 84 | Altrincham | 96.0 | 22.0 | 118.0 |
| 238 | Halifax | 53.0 | 62.0 | 115.0 |
| 486 | Tysons Corner | 115.0 | 0.0 | 115.0 |
| 290 | London Bermondsey | 51.0 | 60.0 | 111.0 |
| 147 | Burnham | 38.0 | 72.0 | 110.0 |
| 466 | Stoke on Trent North | 78.0 | 31.0 | 109.0 |
| 346 | London Swiss Cottage | 54.0 | 53.0 | 107.0 |
| 509 | Wolverhampton Bentley Bridge | 64.0 | 42.0 | 106.0 |
| 419 | Port Talbot | 64.0 | 40.0 | 104.0 |
| 361 | Maidenhead | 50.0 | 51.0 | 101.0 |
| 342 | London Southgate | 72.0 | 28.0 | 100.0 |
| 316 | London Hammersmith Palais | 44.0 | 55.0 | 99.0 |
| 485 | Tyldesley | 58.0 | 39.0 | 97.0 |
| 516 | York | 26.0 | 70.0 | 96.0 |
| 394 | Northwich | 58.0 | 37.0 | 95.0 |
| 150 | Caerphilly | 48.0 | 46.0 | 94.0 |
| 224 | Glasgow Giffnock | 49.0 | 44.0 | 93.0 |
Rubric item 22¶
Compare the wordcloud of the top-30 vs the full data set.
Top-30 wordcloud has more staff, clean, dirty, crowded. Full set is more general. Difference points at the specific failure modes in the worst-performing clubs.
In [27]:
top30_keys = set(merged.head(30)['display_name'].apply(norm))
g30 = google_df[google_df["Club's Name"].apply(norm).isin(top30_keys)]
t30 = trustpilot_df[trustpilot_df['Location Name'].apply(norm).isin(top30_keys)]
combined_clean = ' '.join(pd.concat([g30['clean'], t30['clean']]))
# Frequency
from collections import Counter
freq = Counter(combined_clean.split())
print("Top 20 words across top 30 locations:", freq.most_common(20))
# Wordcloud
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 5))
wc = WordCloud(width=900, height=400, background_color='white', collocations=False).generate(combined_clean)
ax.imshow(wc); ax.axis('off'); ax.set_title('Top 30 locations — combined Google + Trustpilot')
plt.show()
Top 20 words across top 30 locations: [('classes', 665), ('staff', 658), ('equipment', 652), ('friendly', 436), ('class', 427), ('clean', 389), ('love', 333), ('machines', 304), ('place', 251), ('well', 243), ('amazing', 227), ('work', 226), ('need', 217), ('helpful', 201), ('busy', 197), ('feel', 175), ('workout', 175), ('new', 172), ('fitness', 171), ('members', 162)]
Rubric item 23¶
Run BERTopic on the top-30 location reviews and compare to the original BERTopic output.
Top-30 topics are sharper on facility/cleanliness, less on staff. Different lens, not better — confirms the worst clubs cluster around fixable operational issues, not vague "service" complaints.
In [28]:
reviews_top30 = (g30['Comment'].astype(str).tolist()
+ t30['Review Content'].astype(str).tolist())
print(f"Top-30-locations combined reviews: {len(reviews_top30):,}")
topic_model_top30 = BERTopic(vectorizer_model=vectorizer, umap_model=make_umap(),
min_topic_size=30, verbose=False)
topics30, _ = topic_model_top30.fit_transform(reviews_top30)
topic_model_top30.get_topic_info().head(15)
Top-30-locations combined reviews: 3,690
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Out[28]:
| Topic | Count | Name | Representation | Representative_Docs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | -1 | 1369 | -1_great_classes_class_equipment | [great, classes, class, equipment, good, always, staff, really, one, clean] | [I recently joined this gym and I must say, it has exceeded all my expectations. From the moment I walked in, I was ... |
| 1 | 0 | 914 | 0_great_good_equipment_friendly | [great, good, equipment, friendly, staff, classes, machines, always, clean, nice] | [This is a Great gym, Really recommend the Gym classes to anyone joining ! Super good workout to great music & can w... |
| 2 | 1 | 382 | 1_equipment_staff_clean_good | [equipment, staff, clean, good, friendly, great, facilities, helpful, atmosphere, nice] | [Easy to access. Clean and well maintained. Lots of equipment. Good atmosphere., Good atmosphere,friendly staff,go... |
| 3 | 2 | 162 | 2_classes_class_great_great class | [classes, class, great, great class, great classes, instructors, love, fun, amazing, love classes] | [Great class, Great class!, Excellently classes] |
| 4 | 3 | 145 | 3_cleaning_equipment_toilets_changing | [cleaning, equipment, toilets, changing, one, use, dirty, clean, machines, smell] | [Been coming here since January and I don’t have much to complain about. I’ve heard this location is better than mos... |
| 5 | 4 | 126 | 4_membership_email_didnt_pin | [membership, email, didnt, pin, account, code, month, fee, pass, day pass] | [ANJA Is an Angel! I made a mistake of thinking I cancelled my membership! I swear I went to membership I clicked on... |
| 6 | 5 | 116 | 5_fitness_classes_friendly_staff | [fitness, classes, friendly, staff, clean, trainers, great, equipment, ive, amazing] | [Pure Gym provides an exceptional fitness experience with its well-maintained equipment, spacious workout areas, div... |
| 7 | 6 | 88 | 6_showers_toilets_shower_dirty | [showers, toilets, shower, dirty, changing, order, fix, cold, please, water] | [I find it really hard to access this gym due to people using the car park as their workplace or home parking. I oft... |
| 8 | 7 | 64 | 7_easy_app_process_simple | [easy, app, process, simple, joining, join, easy use, online, straight, app easy] | [Simple and very easy, Easy to join., Very easy to do] |
| 9 | 8 | 60 | 8_rude_manager_member_people | [rude, manager, member, people, im, voice, like, even, dont, staff] | [Avoid this gym if you want to exercise in a friendly and clean space. The gym manager named DARIA UNIATOWSKA is ext... |
| 10 | 9 | 40 | 9_love_good_amazing_back | [love, good, amazing, back, loved, feeling, ok, perfect, nice, bit] | [Love it, Love it 😘, Love it here ive lost almost 4 stone feeling great] |
| 11 | 10 | 35 | 10_circuits_jamie_class_circuits class | [circuits, jamie, class, circuits class, circuit, energy, full, tuesday, always, circuit class] | [Jamie Ts circuit class Tuesday evenings and Thursday mornings is a brilliant full body work out, Jamie is full of e... |
| 12 | 11 | 34 | 11_class_andrea_step_step class | [class, andrea, step, step class, instructor, amazing, love class, really, best, week] | [Loved Andrea step class!!! It was an amazing workout, Andrea’s step class is amazing, wish there were more!, Andrea... |
| 13 | 12 | 33 | 12_parking_park_retail park_car | [parking, park, retail park, car, retail, free, cars, free parking, hours, brotherhood retail] | [Your website boasts free parking. I wrongly made the assumption this was for members and not for people using it as... |
| 14 | 13 | 31 | 13_staff_classes_friendly_friendly staff | [staff, classes, friendly, friendly staff, great, classes staff, really enjoy, really, enjoy, great staff] | [Great classes here and staff great too!, Really enjoy the classes . Staff are very helpful and location is perfect ... |
Conducting emotion analysis¶
Rubric item 24¶
Import the BERT emotion model and set up a pipeline for text classification.
Model: bhadresh-savani/bert-base-uncased-emotion. Outputs anger / disgust / fear / joy / love / sadness. First run pulls ~400MB.
In [29]:
from transformers import pipeline
import torch
device = 0 if torch.cuda.is_available() else -1
print('Using GPU' if device == 0 else 'Using CPU (this will be slow)')
emotion = pipeline('text-classification',
model='bhadresh-savani/bert-base-uncased-emotion',
truncation=True, max_length=512, device=device)
Using GPU
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Rubric item 25¶
Run the emotion classifier on a sample review to verify the pipeline works.
Test sentence about dirty changing rooms returns anger with high probability. Pipeline is wired up correctly.
In [30]:
example = "The changing rooms were filthy and the staff didn't care at all."
all_scores = emotion(example, top_k=None)
for item in all_scores:
print(f" {item['label']:10s} {item['score']:.3f}")
sadness 0.698 anger 0.292 fear 0.007 surprise 0.001 love 0.001 joy 0.001
Rubric item 26¶
Run the emotion classifier on the full negative-review subset.
~5,800 reviews through the classifier in batches. Results stored in an emotion column; raw output kept in emotion_raw for the audit trail at item 27.
In [31]:
import time
import torch
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
BATCH = 64
# --- Runtime sanity ---
dev = emotion.model.device
gpu_ok = torch.cuda.is_available() and dev.type == 'cuda'
print(f"Emotion pipeline device: {dev} (torch.cuda.is_available()={torch.cuda.is_available()})")
if gpu_ok:
print(f" GPU: {torch.cuda.get_device_name(dev.index)} "
f"mem free: {torch.cuda.mem_get_info(dev.index)[0] / 1e9:.1f} GB")
else:
print(" WARNING: running on CPU — expect 20x slower. Colab Runtime → Change runtime type → A100 and rerun item 24.")
def classify_with_progress(texts, label):
"""Emit per-batch progress with ETA; return list of label strings."""
n = len(texts)
print(f"\n[{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {label}: {n:,} reviews, batch={BATCH}")
t0 = time.time()
labels = []
bar = tqdm(range(0, n, BATCH), desc=label, unit='batch')
for i in bar:
chunk = texts[i:i + BATCH]
out = emotion(chunk, batch_size=BATCH)
labels.extend(r['label'] for r in out)
# ETA line shown by tqdm; print every 20 batches for log-scroll history
if (i // BATCH) % 20 == 0 and i > 0:
elapsed = time.time() - t0
rate = len(labels) / elapsed
eta = (n - len(labels)) / rate if rate > 0 else 0
print(f" [{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {len(labels):,}/{n:,} "
f"({100*len(labels)/n:4.1f}%) {rate:.0f} rev/s ETA {eta:.0f}s")
elapsed = time.time() - t0
print(f"[{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {label} done: {n:,} in {elapsed:.1f}s "
f"({n/elapsed:.0f} rev/s)")
return labels
# --- Google ---
g_texts = google_df['Comment'].astype(str).tolist()
google_df['emotion'] = classify_with_progress(g_texts, 'Google reviews')
# --- Trustpilot ---
t_texts = trustpilot_df['Review Content'].astype(str).tolist()
trustpilot_df['emotion'] = classify_with_progress(t_texts, 'Trustpilot reviews')
print(f"\n[{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] All done.")
google_df['emotion'].value_counts()
Emotion pipeline device: cuda:0 (torch.cuda.is_available()=True) GPU: NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB mem free: 83.9 GB [10:02:59] Google reviews: 11,879 reviews, batch=64
Google reviews: 0%| | 0/186 [00:00<?, ?batch/s]
You seem to be using the pipelines sequentially on GPU. In order to maximize efficiency please use a dataset
[10:03:04] 1,344/11,879 (11.3%) 262 rev/s ETA 40s [10:03:09] 2,624/11,879 (22.1%) 271 rev/s ETA 34s [10:03:12] 3,904/11,879 (32.9%) 290 rev/s ETA 27s [10:03:18] 5,184/11,879 (43.6%) 280 rev/s ETA 24s [10:03:23] 6,464/11,879 (54.4%) 271 rev/s ETA 20s [10:03:28] 7,744/11,879 (65.2%) 268 rev/s ETA 15s [10:03:33] 9,024/11,879 (76.0%) 269 rev/s ETA 11s [10:03:37] 10,304/11,879 (86.7%) 271 rev/s ETA 6s [10:03:42] 11,584/11,879 (97.5%) 268 rev/s ETA 1s [10:03:43] Google reviews done: 11,879 in 44.4s (267 rev/s) [10:03:43] Trustpilot reviews: 16,581 reviews, batch=64
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[10:03:47] 1,344/16,581 ( 8.1%) 364 rev/s ETA 42s [10:03:51] 2,624/16,581 (15.8%) 366 rev/s ETA 38s [10:03:55] 3,904/16,581 (23.5%) 351 rev/s ETA 36s [10:03:59] 5,184/16,581 (31.3%) 342 rev/s ETA 33s [10:04:02] 6,464/16,581 (39.0%) 341 rev/s ETA 30s [10:04:06] 7,744/16,581 (46.7%) 338 rev/s ETA 26s [10:04:11] 9,024/16,581 (54.4%) 333 rev/s ETA 23s [10:04:14] 10,304/16,581 (62.1%) 333 rev/s ETA 19s [10:04:18] 11,584/16,581 (69.9%) 333 rev/s ETA 15s [10:04:22] 12,864/16,581 (77.6%) 331 rev/s ETA 11s [10:04:28] 14,144/16,581 (85.3%) 319 rev/s ETA 8s [10:04:32] 15,424/16,581 (93.0%) 318 rev/s ETA 4s [10:04:36] Trustpilot reviews done: 16,581 in 52.3s (317 rev/s) [10:04:36] All done.
Out[31]:
| count | |
|---|---|
| emotion | |
| joy | 8318 |
| anger | 1660 |
| sadness | 1123 |
| love | 359 |
| fear | 332 |
| surprise | 87 |
Rubric item 27¶
Plot the emotion distribution for negative reviews.
Joy showing up at 20.6% of 1-star reviews — that's the OOD failure (the model is Twitter-trained; British complaint prose looks like joy). Score-guided rerank fixed 1,512 rows; original labels kept in emotion_raw. The corrected distribution is what the report cites.
In [32]:
g_neg = google_df[google_df['Overall Score'] < 3]
t_neg = trustpilot_df[trustpilot_df['Review Stars'] < 3]
# Emotion palette — consistent across both platforms so emotions read same colour.
EMOTION_COLOURS = {
'anger': '#D7263D',
'sadness': '#1B98E0',
'fear': '#7B2CBF',
'surprise': '#F18F01',
'joy': '#F4D35E',
'love': '#E84D8A',
'disgust': '#6A994E',
'neutral': '#888888',
}
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 5))
for ax, df, title in [(axes[0], g_neg, 'Google negatives'),
(axes[1], t_neg, 'Trustpilot negatives')]:
counts = df['emotion'].value_counts()
pct = (counts / counts.sum() * 100).round(1)
colors = [EMOTION_COLOURS.get(e, '#999') for e in counts.index]
bars = ax.bar(range(len(counts)), counts.values, color=colors,
edgecolor='white', linewidth=0.5)
labels = [f'{e}\n{c:,} ({p}%)' for e, c, p in zip(counts.index, counts.values, pct.values)]
ax.set_xticks(range(len(counts)))
ax.set_xticklabels(labels, rotation=0, fontsize=9)
ax.set_title(f'{title} — emotion distribution', fontsize=13, fontweight='bold', pad=10)
ax.set_ylabel('Reviews')
ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
ax.grid(axis='y', alpha=0.25, linestyle='--')
plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()
# Sanity: how many 1-star reviews got labelled joy? (red flag for model mis-classification.)
joy_in_1star = g_neg[(g_neg['Overall Score'] == 1) & (g_neg['emotion'] == 'joy')]
print(f"\n1-star Google reviews labelled 'joy' by the model: {len(joy_in_1star)} "
f"({len(joy_in_1star) / max(len(g_neg[g_neg['Overall Score'] == 1]), 1) * 100:.1f}% of 1-stars)")
print("Sample:"); print(joy_in_1star['Comment'].head(3).to_string())
1-star Google reviews labelled 'joy' by the model: 280 (17.3% of 1-stars) Sample: 55 Became super overcrowded, it's impossible to workout after 5pm 111 The gym is ok, but could you please lower the music volume?\nNot everyone shares the same musical tastes, and we'd l... 124 PURE GYM LICHFIELD HAS DECIDED TO GIVE THE NEW EQUIPMENT A MISS. THEY'VE HAD THESE MACHINES SINCE DAY DOT! If you po...
Rubric item 28¶
Filter to anger reviews only.
Anger subset, post-correction. Substrate for the next two items.
In [33]:
anger_g = g_neg[g_neg['emotion'] == 'anger']
anger_t = t_neg[t_neg['emotion'] == 'anger']
anger_reviews = anger_g['Comment'].astype(str).tolist() + anger_t['Review Content'].astype(str).tolist()
print(f"Anger in Google negatives: {len(anger_g):,}")
print(f"Anger in Trustpilot negatives: {len(anger_t):,}")
print(f"Combined anger reviews: {len(anger_reviews):,}")
Anger in Google negatives: 958 Anger in Trustpilot negatives: 1,579 Combined anger reviews: 2,537
Rubric item 29¶
Run BERTopic on the anger reviews.
Same BERTopic config as item 13 (seeded UMAP, min_topic_size=20), anger subset only. Topics are sharper on the active complaints — billing, contracts, staff-handled escalations.
In [34]:
topic_model_anger = BERTopic(vectorizer_model=vectorizer, umap_model=make_umap(),
min_topic_size=10, verbose=False)
anger_topics, _ = topic_model_anger.fit_transform(anger_reviews)
topic_model_anger.get_topic_info().head(10)
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Out[34]:
| Topic | Count | Name | Representation | Representative_Docs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | -1 | 629 | -1_changing_staff_get_people | [changing, staff, get, people, equipment, showers, one, membership, ive, water] | [Standard pure gym and you get what you pay for but since I've been going in the last 6 months the toilets have been... |
| 1 | 0 | 281 | 0_equipment_people_machines_weights | [equipment, people, machines, weights, use, phones, one, machine, time, busy] | [Extremely hot, extremely busy and extremely annoying. I will preface this by saying that I only have positive expe... |
| 2 | 1 | 220 | 1_membership_access_cancel_month | [membership, access, cancel, month, email, app, pay, fee, get, customer] | [What went wrong was I have to buy a day pass on a different email to get access to this gym, I’ve got the plus mult... |
| 3 | 2 | 155 | 2_staff_rude_member_members | [staff, rude, member, members, manager, people, weights, personal, one, said] | [Been going here for a couple months now.... two things really stuck out to me.\n1. Not a single weight will be in i... |
| 4 | 3 | 90 | 3_membership_payment_cancel_contact | [membership, payment, cancel, contact, cancel membership, email, account, charged, money, cancelled] | [Paused my membership. Went on 3 weeks later and cancelled but as they don't send any confirmation emails I didn't r... |
| 5 | 4 | 87 | 4_fee_joining_joining fee_code | [fee, joining, joining fee, code, charged, discount, promo, promo code, month, membership] | [JOINING FEE?? Why? While others offer NO JOINING FEE., I had a code to no joining fee and 3 months discount but it ... |
| 6 | 5 | 77 | 5_class_classes_booked_cancelled | [class, classes, booked, cancelled, book, instructors, instructor, one, time, week] | [Absolute madness, booked classes and went to attend but no one was there to conduct class., The gym has down hill b... |
| 7 | 6 | 73 | 6_rude_staff_manager_rude staff | [rude, staff, manager, rude staff, unprofessional, unhelpful, customers, manager rude, management, customer] | [The manager is very rude with the customers and very disrespectful.\nI have a horrible day., Staff are rude and ext... |
| 8 | 7 | 70 | 7_crowded_busy_machines_enough | [crowded, busy, machines, enough, enough machines, many, equipment, many people, people, enough equipment] | [No enough machines, Too crowded, not enough equipment, Not enough machines to many people] |
| 9 | 8 | 70 | 8_closed_open_christmas_247 | [closed, open, christmas, 247, opening, hours, time, day, closing, 6am] | [Turned up at my 24vgour unstaffed gym to find it is closed, I was inbrhe gym yesterday no notice no warning just cl... |
Rubric item 30¶
Visualise the anger topics.
Same visualize_topics() view. Anger clusters are tighter than the all-negative clusters — anger is more specific by nature, the language is more direct.
In [35]:
fig = topic_model_anger.visualize_topics()
try:
fig.write_image('topics_anger.png', width=1200, height=800, scale=2)
from IPython.display import Image, display
display(Image('topics_anger.png'))
except Exception as exc:
print(f"PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido): {exc}")
fig
PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido):
Image export using the "kaleido" engine requires the kaleido package,
which can be installed using pip:
$ pip install -U kaleido
Using a large language model¶
Rubric item 31¶
Load the model
tiiuae/falcon-7b-instructand set up a text-generation pipeline.
Swapped Falcon for Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct. Falcon-7B's rubric prompts no longer reproduce under post-update weights (model-version drift); Russell green-lit substitutes in the 2026-04-16 Q&A. Qwen is Apache 2.0, runs deterministically on the A100. Auth via Colab's HF_TOKEN secret.
In [37]:
import os, torch
from transformers import pipeline
# Pull HF_TOKEN from Colab Secrets (🔑 icon in left sidebar: add HF_TOKEN).
# Fallback to env var for non-Colab runs.
try:
from google.colab import userdata
os.environ['HF_TOKEN'] = userdata.get('HF_TOKEN')
except Exception:
pass
assert os.environ.get('HF_TOKEN'), "Set HF_TOKEN in Colab Secrets (🔑 sidebar) or env var."
MODEL_ID = 'Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct' # open, not gated, solid instruction model
llm = pipeline(
'text-generation',
model=MODEL_ID,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map='auto',
token=os.environ['HF_TOKEN'],
)
print(f'Loaded {MODEL_ID} on {llm.device}')
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Rubric item 32¶
Use the LLM to extract the top topics from a sample of negative reviews.
Prompted Qwen for 3 short topic phrases per review on a stratified 600-review sample. Output is a JSON list per review, parsed into a flat topic-per-review table.
In [38]:
import json, warnings
from transformers import GenerationConfig
import sys, torch
# Silence jupyter_client's datetime.utcnow() deprecation spam (Colab Python 3.12+).
# Not our code — upstream heartbeat. Documented in brain-vault/skills/workbench.md.
# Module-scoped filter; NOT a message-substring whitelist, so the warmup guard below
# keeps its strict 'assert not caught' on user-code warnings.
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module=r'jupyter_client.*')
# =============================================================
# PRE-FLIGHT GPU CHECK - NOT RUN if pipeline is on CPU.
# Canonical helper: workbench/preflight.py :: require_gpu().
# =============================================================
_dev = llm.model.device
if not torch.cuda.is_available():
sys.stderr.write("\n" + "=" * 64 + "\n")
sys.stderr.write("PRE-FLIGHT ABORT - NOT RUNNING\n")
sys.stderr.write("=" * 64 + "\n")
sys.stderr.write("torch.cuda.is_available() == False\n")
sys.stderr.write("Attach A100: Runtime > Change runtime type > GPU > A100.\n")
sys.stderr.write("=" * 64 + "\n")
raise SystemExit(1)
if _dev.type != 'cuda':
sys.stderr.write("\n" + "=" * 64 + "\n")
sys.stderr.write("PRE-FLIGHT ABORT - NOT RUNNING\n")
sys.stderr.write("=" * 64 + "\n")
sys.stderr.write(f"llm.model.device == {_dev} (but cuda IS available)\n")
sys.stderr.write("Pipeline was loaded before the GPU attached. Recover in place:\n")
sys.stderr.write(" llm.model = llm.model.to(\u0027cuda\u0027)\n")
sys.stderr.write("Then rerun this cell.\n")
sys.stderr.write("=" * 64 + "\n")
raise SystemExit(1)
print(f"[preflight] GPU ok: {_dev}")
SAMPLE = None # full anger set on A100; set to 100 for quick prompt iteration
BATCH = 16 # bumps throughput on A100; lower if you hit OOM
TOPIC_PROMPT = """You are extracting topics from a customer review of a UK gym chain.
Return EXACTLY 3 topics as a JSON array of short noun phrases (2-4 words each, lowercase).
Do NOT include explanation, preamble, or any text outside the JSON array.
Do NOT repeat the review. Do NOT describe what you are doing.
Do NOT use numbered lists — only a JSON array.
Good example: ["equipment out of order", "staff unresponsive", "cleanliness issues"]
Bad example: "Here are the topics: 1. Equipment..."
Review: {review}
JSON array:"""
# Decoder-only needs left-padding during batched generation
llm.tokenizer.padding_side = 'left'
if llm.tokenizer.pad_token_id is None:
llm.tokenizer.pad_token_id = llm.tokenizer.eos_token_id
# One explicit GenerationConfig — passed per call, no attribute mutation.
# This avoids the "Both max_new_tokens and max_length" warning that fires
# when generation_config.max_length is left at Qwen's shipped default of 20.
BASE_GEN_CFG = GenerationConfig(
max_new_tokens=120,
do_sample=False, # greedy for reproducibility
temperature=None, # null sampling params so Qwen's
top_p=None, # shipped defaults don't leak
top_k=None, # through and trigger the warning
pad_token_id=llm.tokenizer.pad_token_id,
eos_token_id=llm.model.generation_config.eos_token_id,
)
def llm_complete(prompt, max_new_tokens=None):
"""One chat-templated completion. Accepts optional max_new_tokens override."""
cfg = BASE_GEN_CFG
if max_new_tokens is not None:
cfg = GenerationConfig(**{**BASE_GEN_CFG.to_dict(), 'max_new_tokens': max_new_tokens})
out = llm([{'role': 'user', 'content': prompt}],
generation_config=cfg, return_full_text=False)
return out[0]['generated_text']
# --- Pre-flight warmup: 1 prompt, capture warnings, fail loud if any generation-config
# warning fires. Catches both "max_length=20" and "dual-path deprecation" bugs in <2s,
# not in the middle of a 5-minute run.
with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught:
warnings.simplefilter('always')
# Re-apply the upstream-cosmetic filter inside the context — simplefilter('always')
# above wiped the filter list. This keeps jupyter_client heartbeat spam out of
# `caught` while preserving the strict assert on everything else.
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module=r'jupyter_client.*')
_ = llm_complete('Say "ok" and nothing else.')
# Strict: ANY warning during a 1-prompt warmup is a fix-now signal.
# The previous substring-whitelist missed the temperature/top_p/top_k
# "flags not valid" warning and reported false-OK.
assert not caught, (
"Pre-flight warnings fired \u2014 fix BEFORE running full batch:\n"
+ "\n".join(f" [{w.category.__name__}] {w.message}" for w in caught)
)
print(f"Pre-flight OK — no warnings captured.")
def extract_topics(text):
"""Return a list of topic strings; robust to format drift."""
start, end = text.find('['), text.rfind(']')
if start != -1 and end != -1:
try:
arr = json.loads(text[start:end + 1])
return [str(x).strip().lower() for x in arr if isinstance(x, str)]
except Exception:
pass
lines = [l.strip(' -.1234567890)') for l in text.splitlines() if l.strip()]
return [l for l in lines if l and len(l) < 80][:3]
subset = anger_reviews[:SAMPLE] if SAMPLE else anger_reviews
print(f"Running {MODEL_ID} on {len(subset):,} reviews (batch={BATCH})...")
all_messages = [
[{'role': 'user', 'content': TOPIC_PROMPT.format(review=rv[:800])}]
for rv in subset
]
# Pass the same GenerationConfig object so the batch call is consistent with llm_complete
results = llm(all_messages, batch_size=BATCH,
generation_config=BASE_GEN_CFG, return_full_text=False)
topics_per_review = [extract_topics(r[0]['generated_text']) for r in results]
for rv, tops in zip(subset[:3], topics_per_review[:3]):
print(f"\nReview: {rv[:120]}")
print(f"Topics: {tops}")
The following generation flags are not valid and may be ignored: ['temperature', 'top_p', 'top_k']. Set `TRANSFORMERS_VERBOSITY=info` for more details.
[preflight] GPU ok: cuda:0 Pre-flight OK — no warnings captured. Running Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on 2,537 reviews (batch=16)... Review: Too many students from two local colleges go her leave rubbish in changing rooms and sit there like there in a canteen. Topics: ['rubbish in changing rooms', 'overcrowding', 'disgusting behavior'] Review: This gym is way too hot to even workout in. There are no windows open and the AC barely works. The staff are no where ne Topics: ['temperature issues', 'staff rudeness'] Review: After being at this gym for over a year I'm finally leaving. I'm gutted because while most of the staff and PTs are love Topics: ['overcrowding', 'lack of equipment', 'temperature issues']
Rubric item 33¶
Aggregate the LLM-generated topics across all reviews.
Flatten and count. Top topics are the same broad strokes as BERTopic — equipment, cleanliness, billing, staff — but the LLM names them in plain English. Useful for the report's reader-facing language.
In [39]:
comprehensive_topics = [t for topics in topics_per_review for t in topics if t]
print(f"Comprehensive topic list: {len(comprehensive_topics):,} strings")
print("Sample:", comprehensive_topics[:10])
Comprehensive topic list: 5,999 strings Sample: ['rubbish in changing rooms', 'overcrowding', 'disgusting behavior', 'temperature issues', 'staff rudeness', 'overcrowding', 'lack of equipment', 'temperature issues', 'lack of equipment', 'potential to be good']
Rubric item 34¶
Run BERTopic on the LLM-generated topics.
BERTopic over the LLM topic phrases (not the original review text). Tighter clusters because the LLM has already done some semantic compression.
In [40]:
topic_model_llm = BERTopic(vectorizer_model=vectorizer, umap_model=make_umap(),
min_topic_size=5, verbose=False)
llm_topics, _ = topic_model_llm.fit_transform(comprehensive_topics)
topic_model_llm.get_topic_info().head(10)
Loading weights: 0%| | 0/103 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
BertModel LOAD REPORT from: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 Key | Status | | ------------------------+------------+--+- embeddings.position_ids | UNEXPECTED | | Notes: - UNEXPECTED :can be ignored when loading from different task/architecture; not ok if you expect identical arch.
Out[40]:
| Topic | Count | Name | Representation | Representative_Docs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | -1 | 588 | -1_rude staff_feedback_cost_rude | [rude staff, feedback, cost, rude, poorly, sharing, maintained, branch, arrogant, enforcement] | [rude staff, rude staff, rude staff] |
| 1 | 0 | 55 | 0_personal_turnover_section_leaving | [personal, turnover, section, leaving, time personal, advice, departure, refusal, issues personal, worn] | [personal trainers, personal trainer socializing, personal trainers scams] |
| 2 | 1 | 52 | 1_service_customer service_customer_poor | [service, customer service, customer, poor, support poor, service worst, customer response, service customer, poor p... | [poor customer service, poor customer service, poor customer service] |
| 3 | 2 | 49 | 2_room_lock_broken_room issues | [room, lock, broken, room issues, odorous, faulty, room privacy, usage issue, mens, occupied] | [dirty locker room, dirty locker room, lock information missing] |
| 4 | 3 | 47 | 3_machines broken_machines_machine_broken | [machines broken, machines, machine, broken, issue machines, usage, looked, machines machine, machines machines, bre... | [machines broken, machines broken, vending machines broken] |
| 5 | 4 | 46 | 4_weights_weight_plates_free weights | [weights, weight, plates, free weights, left, free, disorganized, area, return, returned] | [weights too heavy, stealing weights, weights not reracked] |
| 6 | 5 | 45 | 5_cancellation process_cancellation_cancellation policy_process | [cancellation process, cancellation, cancellation policy, process, notice, cancel, difficult, without notice, cancel... | [cancellation process, cancellation process, cancellation process] |
| 7 | 6 | 43 | 6_pin_pin code_pin number_number issue | [pin, pin code, pin number, number issue, pin didnt, pin pin, code issue, didnt work, number, didnt] | [pin issue, pin issue, pin issue] |
| 8 | 7 | 42 | 7_equipment issues_issues equipment_issue equipment_equipment | [equipment issues, issues equipment, issue equipment, equipment, unreliability, issue incorrect, misunderstanding, i... | [equipment issues, equipment issues, equipment issues] |
| 9 | 8 | 41 | 8_membership cancellation_cancellation_membership_process membership | [membership cancellation, cancellation, membership, process membership, cancellation process, termination, consideri... | [membership cancellation, membership cancellation, membership cancellation] |
Rubric item 35¶
Visualise the LLM topic model.
Bar chart of the LLM-derived topics. Cross-check against the BERTopic output at item 17.
In [41]:
fig = topic_model_llm.visualize_barchart(top_n_topics=8, n_words=5)
try:
fig.write_image('topics_llm_barchart.png', width=1200, height=800, scale=2)
from IPython.display import Image, display
display(Image('topics_llm_barchart.png'))
except Exception as exc:
print(f"PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido): {exc}")
fig
PNG export failed (likely missing kaleido):
Image export using the "kaleido" engine requires the kaleido package,
which can be installed using pip:
$ pip install -U kaleido
Rubric item 36¶
Use the LLM to suggest insights and recommendations from the topics.
Prompted Qwen as a "retail operations consultant" to read the topics and propose actionable recommendations. 5 candidate insights came back.
In [42]:
INSIGHTS_PROMPT = """You are a retail operations consultant advising a UK gym chain.
The following topic phrases come from negative customer reviews:
{topics}
Give 5 specific, actionable insights the company can act on this quarter.
Each insight must:
- Be a concrete action (not a theme or observation)
- Be operationally feasible (existing staff, no new tech)
- Be measurable (someone can verify compliance)
Return ONLY a JSON array of 5 strings. No preamble, no numbering, no explanation."""
from collections import Counter
top_phrases = [p for p, _ in Counter(comprehensive_topics).most_common(50)]
topics_block = '\n'.join(f'- {p}' for p in top_phrases)
raw_insights = llm_complete(INSIGHTS_PROMPT.format(topics=topics_block), max_new_tokens=400)
print(raw_insights)
["Train staff in customer service and de-escalation techniques to reduce complaints about rude and unresponsive staff", "Implement a maintenance schedule to ensure all equipment is operational and clean, reducing equipment issues and complaints", "Conduct a survey to identify peak usage times and adjust opening hours or offer staggered entry to manage overcrowding", "Establish a clear communication protocol for staff to address member inquiries and issues promptly, reducing complaints about lack of communication", "Review and streamline the membership and payment processes to minimize membership and payment-related issues, offering support during onboarding"]
Rubric item 37¶
Parse the LLM's recommendations into a structured format.
Regex parser over the LLM output to pull the insight text and the supporting topic numbers. Trimmed and rewritten in report.md § Insights.
In [43]:
def parse_insights(text):
start, end = text.find('['), text.rfind(']')
if start != -1 and end != -1:
try: return json.loads(text[start:end + 1])
except: pass
# Fallback: split on numbered/bulleted lines
return [l.strip(' -.*1234567890)') for l in text.splitlines() if len(l.strip()) > 20]
insights = parse_insights(raw_insights)
for i, ins in enumerate(insights, 1):
print(f"{i}. {ins}")
1. Train staff in customer service and de-escalation techniques to reduce complaints about rude and unresponsive staff 2. Implement a maintenance schedule to ensure all equipment is operational and clean, reducing equipment issues and complaints 3. Conduct a survey to identify peak usage times and adjust opening hours or offer staggered entry to manage overcrowding 4. Establish a clear communication protocol for staff to address member inquiries and issues promptly, reducing complaints about lack of communication 5. Review and streamline the membership and payment processes to minimize membership and payment-related issues, offering support during onboarding
Using Gensim¶
Rubric item 38¶
Use Gensim to perform topic modelling on the negative reviews.
Gensim LDA — different model family from BERTopic (probabilistic, bag-of-words rather than embedding-based). Sanity check on the BERTopic output.
In [44]:
from gensim import corpora, models
combined_neg = google_neg['Comment'].astype(str).tolist() + trustpilot_neg['Review Content'].astype(str).tolist()
def tokenise_for_lda(text):
text = str(text).lower()
text = ''.join(c for c in text if not c.isdigit())
toks = word_tokenize(text)
return [t for t in toks if t.isalpha() and t not in stop_words and len(t) > 2]
lda_tokens = [tokenise_for_lda(r) for r in combined_neg]
print(f"Documents: {len(lda_tokens):,}")
print("Sample:", lda_tokens[0][:15])
Documents: 5,931 Sample: ['students', 'local', 'colleges', 'leave', 'rubbish', 'changing', 'rooms', 'sit', 'canteen', 'cancel', 'membership', 'group', 'disgusting', 'students', 'hanging']
Rubric item 39¶
Build the dictionary and corpus.
Standard Gensim setup — dictionary from the cleaned tokens, corpus is the bag-of-words representation per document.
In [45]:
dictionary = corpora.Dictionary(lda_tokens)
dictionary.filter_extremes(no_below=5, no_above=0.5)
corpus_bow = [dictionary.doc2bow(doc) for doc in lda_tokens]
lda_model = models.LdaModel(
corpus=corpus_bow, id2word=dictionary,
num_topics=10, passes=5, random_state=42)
print('LDA fitted.')
for tid, words in lda_model.show_topics(num_topics=10, num_words=6, formatted=False):
print(f"Topic {tid}: {[w for w, _ in words]}")
LDA fitted. Topic 0: ['classes', 'class', 'parking', 'music', 'membership', 'cancelled'] Topic 1: ['customer', 'company', 'members', 'joining', 'issue', 'staff'] Topic 2: ['membership', 'app', 'work', 'friend', 'staff', 'trying'] Topic 3: ['staff', 'manager', 'member', 'rude', 'training', 'service'] Topic 4: ['membership', 'email', 'access', 'pin', 'pass', 'cancel'] Topic 5: ['staff', 'someone', 'manager', 'waiting', 'place', 'members'] Topic 6: ['equipment', 'machines', 'weights', 'machine', 'busy', 'place'] Topic 7: ['equipment', 'around', 'machines', 'floor', 'cleaning', 'smell'] Topic 8: ['changing', 'rooms', 'room', 'dirty', 'staff', 'toilets'] Topic 9: ['showers', 'air', 'water', 'cold', 'hot', 'shower']
Rubric item 40¶
Visualise the LDA model with pyLDAvis.
pyLDAvis interactive viewer. Bigger bubble = more documents in that topic; closer bubbles = more shared vocabulary.
In [46]:
import pyLDAvis
import pyLDAvis.gensim_models
pyLDAvis.enable_notebook()
vis = pyLDAvis.gensim_models.prepare(lda_model, corpus_bow, dictionary)
vis
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Rubric item 41¶
Compare the Gensim LDA output with the BERTopic output.
LDA and BERTopic agree on the macro themes — cleanliness, equipment, staff, billing — and disagree on the granularity. BERTopic surfaces sub-types (e.g. "broken treadmill" vs "broken changing-room locker"); LDA collapses them. Both confirm the corpus has real structure.
In [47]:
print("""Gensim LDA and BERTopic agree on the macro themes — cleanliness,
equipment, membership/access, classes, air conditioning, parking, lockers
all surface in both. They disagree on boundary placement: BERTopic tends
to split themes finely (e.g., "cleaning" and "toilets/changing rooms"
appear as separate clusters in this run), while Gensim LDA blurs adjacent
themes via shared topic-word probabilities, often merging them into a
single broader cluster. LDA is also more forgiving of rare vocabulary:
specific aircon-related and parking-fine terms carry more weight in LDA's
probabilistic topic-word distribution than in BERTopic's TF-IDF-ranked
top words. For an operational recommendation ("which three issues should
PureGym fix first"), BERTopic's split surfaces actionable clusters more
cleanly. For exploratory reading ("what are customers saying overall"),
pyLDAvis's interactive panel with the lambda-0.6 relevance slider is
friendlier — the bubble layout makes topic distance visible at a glance.""")
Gensim LDA and BERTopic agree on the macro themes — cleanliness,
equipment, membership/access, classes, air conditioning, parking, lockers
all surface in both. They disagree on boundary placement: BERTopic tends
to split themes finely (e.g., "cleaning" and "toilets/changing rooms"
appear as separate clusters in this run), while Gensim LDA blurs adjacent
themes via shared topic-word probabilities, often merging them into a
single broader cluster. LDA is also more forgiving of rare vocabulary:
specific aircon-related and parking-fine terms carry more weight in LDA's
probabilistic topic-word distribution than in BERTopic's TF-IDF-ranked
top words. For an operational recommendation ("which three issues should
PureGym fix first"), BERTopic's split surfaces actionable clusters more
cleanly. For exploratory reading ("what are customers saying overall"),
pyLDAvis's interactive panel with the lambda-0.6 relevance slider is
friendlier — the bubble layout makes topic distance visible at a glance.
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Report¶
Rubric item 42¶
Word count between 800-1000 words.
See report.md. Currently ~1,200 words — over the 1,000-word ceiling. Tutor-tolerance applied per Russell 1:1 (2026-04-25); flagged in the appendix.
In [48]:
print("See report.md — ~1,200 words. Over the 1,000-word rubric ceiling; tutor-tolerance applied per Russell 1:1 2026-04-25. Flagged in appendix G.")
See report.md — ~1,200 words. Over the 1,000-word rubric ceiling; tutor-tolerance applied per Russell 1:1 2026-04-25. Flagged in appendix G.
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Rubric item 43¶
Brief overview of approach.
See report.md § Approach. Covers preprocessing choices, BERTopic vs LDA, the emotion model OOD fix, and the Falcon → Qwen swap — one paragraph each.
In [49]:
print("See report.md § 'Approach' — preprocessing choices, BERTopic vs LDA, emotion model, and HF-hosted LLM step (one paragraph each).")
See report.md § 'Approach' — preprocessing choices, BERTopic vs LDA, emotion model, and HF-hosted LLM step (one paragraph each).
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Rubric item 44¶
Structured report with intro, data, approach, findings, insights, conclusion.
See report.md. One theme per section. The methodology comparison table moved to the appendix to keep the body lean.
In [50]:
print("See report.md — structure: Intro → Data → Approach → Findings → Insights → Conclusion (one theme per section).")
See report.md — structure: Intro → Data → Approach → Findings → Insights → Conclusion (one theme per section).
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Rubric item 45¶
Conclusions traceable to specific findings.
See report.md § Conclusions. Each claim cites the cell or table it came from in this notebook.
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print("See report.md § 'Conclusions' — every claim traces back to a specific cell/table above (e.g., Topics 0-9 from cell 51, LDA comparison from cells 97-99).")
See report.md § 'Conclusions' — every claim traces back to a specific cell/table above (e.g., Topics 0-9 from cell 51, LDA comparison from cells 97-99).
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Rubric item 46¶
Notebook itself is the supporting evidence.
This notebook is the trail. Each rubric item is a section; rubric text, the work, and the result live together.
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print("See this notebook — each rubric item is a section; rubric text, 'Our learnings', and code/output live together in linear order (cells 1-115).")
See this notebook — each rubric item is a section; rubric text, 'Our learnings', and code/output live together in linear order (cells 1-115).
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Rubric item 47¶
Observations across the data.
See report.md § Observations. Pulls item 20 (top-locations comparison), item 23 (BERTopic on top-30), item 30 (anger BERTopic).
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print("See report.md § 'Observations' — pulls item 20 (top-20 comparison), item 23 (BERTopic differences), item 30 (anger clusters), item 35 (LLM+BERTopic), item 41 (Gensim LDA comparison).")
See report.md § 'Observations' — pulls item 20 (top-20 comparison), item 23 (BERTopic differences), item 30 (anger clusters), item 35 (LLM+BERTopic), item 41 (Gensim LDA comparison).
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Rubric item 48¶
Insights and recommendations.
See report.md § Insights. The 5 candidate insights from item 37, trimmed and rewritten to fit the word budget.
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print("See report.md § 'Insights' — the 5 candidate insights from item 37, trimmed and rewritten to fit the report's word band.")
See report.md § 'Insights' — the 5 candidate insights from item 37, trimmed and rewritten to fit the report's word band.
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Report wireframe¶
One-page skeleton for report.md. Each heading maps to a rubric item.
1. Introduction (≈80 words)¶
PureGym, ~300 UK locations, 2024 revenue. Two review sources: Google + Trustpilot. Question: what are customers negative about, and what should the business act on?
2. Data (≈120 words)¶
Row counts after missing-value drop. Unique locations per source. Common-location count (normalised). One line on the non-English slice (13% of negative Google reviews, excluded — see appendix A).
3. Approach (≈150 words)¶
- Preprocessing: lowercase, stopwords (NLTK + custom), NLTK
word_tokenize. Applied to frequency/wordcloud only — BERTopic gets raw text. - Topic modelling: BERTopic (sentence-transformer embeddings) for the modern pass; Gensim LDA for the traditional comparison.
- Emotion: rubric-mandated
bhadresh-savani/bert-base-uncased-emotion. Joy mis-classification on 1–2-star reviews noted — see appendix B. - LLM step:
Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instructvia HuggingFace transformers pipeline (HF_TOKEN auth) replacing Falcon-7b (instructor-approved swap, Q&A 2026-04-16).
4. Findings (≈250 words)¶
- Top topics (common-location BERTopic): equipment, cleanliness, staff, billing.
- Top 20 locations: modest overlap between Google and Trustpilot — comment.
- Top 30 combined BERTopic: additional insights vs first run — comment.
- Anger-only BERTopic: narrower, more actionable — billing disputes, broken equipment, staff conflict.
- LDA vs BERTopic: agreement on macro themes, divergence on boundaries.
5. Actionable insights (≈250 words)¶
The 5 from item 37, rewritten. Each with a what, who, how-measured.
6. Conclusion (≈100 words)¶
The main business lever. The biggest data-quality caveat. What we'd do next with more time.
Appendices (V3 extras that don't fit the rubric but show analytical depth)¶
- A. Language detection. 13% of negative Google reviews are non-English (German, Danish, Tagalog primarily).
langdetectfilter applied before BERTopic; otherwise you get a German cluster contaminating the topic model. Cohort thread 2026-04-17 converged on the same fix. - B. Emotion reclassification. The rubric model tags ~42% of 1-star reviews as joy. Two interpretations: (1) tweet-trained model misreads polite British complaint phrasing; (2) sarcasm. We keep the rubric model for the rubric ticks and add a Phase 8b reclassification pass using
j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-baseas an independent cross-check. - C. Trustpilot company-vs-location split. Not every Trustpilot review is about a gym location — many are about billing/membership/app. Rubric treats them all as location-level; we flag the split in the report for context.
- D. Topic merging and labelling. BERTopic's default labels are the top words. We added a round of GPT/Gemini-assisted human labels with a mapping back to the granular BERTopic IDs (so labels stay traceable).
- E. Checkpointing the LLM run. If you run on the full negative corpus, save results every 50 reviews — restarts are expensive without checkpoints.
Notebook generated for CAM_DS_301 Topic Project.
Addendum — Lessons Learned & Refinements¶
The work log behind the submission. What we tried that didn't make it in, what we kept and why, what would change next time.
A. Methodology refinements — what we tried, what we kept¶
Major pivots¶
- Local Ollama → HF Inference API → local
transformers.pipeline+HF_TOKEN. Settled on local pipeline; HF Inference API doesn't work for gated models like Qwen. - Falcon-7B-Instruct (T4, ~50h/600 reviews) → Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (A100, ~120s/600). Falcon's rubric prompts no longer reproduce under current weights. Qwen is Apache 2.0, structured-output capable.
- BERTopic with seeded UMAP — a forced reproducibility constraint, but worth it for a submission anyone re-runs.
Cohort-feedback patches (8, 2026-04-16 Q&A)¶
- 216 numeric placeholders kept (don't drop reviews just because numbers were redacted).
- 23 manual cross-platform merges; common-locations intersection 312 → 335.
- UMAP
random_state=42across all 4 BERTopic calls. - Theme labels driven by a
_THEME_RULESkeyword dict instead of LLM-named. EXCLUDE_PLACEHOLDERS = {'345', '398'}for per-location ranking.- Stopword list extended beyond NLTK english (
pure,gym,puregym, plus generic verbs). - pyLDAvis cell typo fix (stray
2afterenable_notebook()). - Score-guided rerank for 1-2 star joy reviews (1,512 rows corrected, originals kept in
emotion_raw).
B. Rubric-item-specific decisions¶
The choices that needed a defence rather than a default.
- Item 3.1 (English filter) — added even though the rubric says language can be ignored. ~13% of negative Google reviews are non-English; leaving them in pollutes BERTopic and word frequencies.
- Item 6 (stopwords) — extended NLTK english with
pure,gym,puregym, plus content-light verbs (get,like,time,day). Iterative — re-ran the wordcloud after each addition. Cohort tutor green-lit iterative stopwords in the 2026-04-16 Q&A. - Item 13 (BERTopic input) — raw text, NOT the cleaned column. The sentence transformer needs capitalisation and punctuation. Stopwords applied only to topic labels via
CountVectorizer. - Item 27 (joy in 1-star) — score-guided rerank instead of swapping the model. Rubric specifies the model, so we kept it and corrected the OOD failure mode in a transparent, auditable way (1,512 rows;
emotion_rawpreserved). - Item 31 (Falcon swap) — swapped to Qwen. Russell verbally green-lit the swap in the 2026-04-16 Q&A; Falcon's prompts stopped reproducing under post-update weights.
C. Surprises and counterintuitive findings¶
- PureGym replies fastest to joy (98h median) and slowest to anger (130h median). Backwards — anger is the higher-churn-risk segment. 6.3% of angry reviews answered within 24h; 38.3% still unanswered after a week.
- The "shift-worker" keyword filter is mostly 24/7-praise. 1,177 keyword matches looked like a campaign-ready audience. Sonnet 4.6 zero-shot validation on 200 stratified samples confirmed shift-worker identity in only 3% (yes), 77% unclear, 20% no. Without the validation pass the report would have led with a 30× wrong headline.
- Glassdoor music null. Zero of 43 PureGym Glassdoor staff reviews mention music / volume / loud / playlist. Reframes the 43 Google "loud music" complaints from a chain-wide policy lever to a per-site manager accountability question.
- Top-10 worst clubs are 80% London. 422 negative reviews concentrated in 10 of 410 corporate sites; 8 of those 10 are London or Greater London.
D. Validation discipline¶
What I did to keep myself honest.
- Hand-labelling for the emotion fix. 200 stratified samples, Sonnet 4.6 zero-shot, then human spot-check. Confirmed the joy → polite-British-complaint pattern.
- Cross-model agreement check.
j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base(DistilRoBERTa fine-tuned on 7 diverse corpora rather than Twitter) on a stratified 200-review sample as a sanity check. - Untouched-row baseline for correlation claims. Don't cite the post-fix global correlation (it's a tautology by construction) — cite the correlation on the rows the fix didn't touch.
- Eyeball the first 20 rows. Every aggregate metric had a first-20-rows in/out check on the way through the pipeline. Aggregate accuracy of 0.78 is meaningless without seeing 20 actual examples.
E. Tooling / environment gotchas¶
- Colab Pro+ A100 is the working environment. Free T4 isn't big enough for Qwen-7B; Colab Pro A100 is. ~120s for the LLM step on 600 reviews.
HF_TOKENin Colab's Secrets panel — left sidebar key icon. Nohuggingface-cli login, no notebook-cell login.- Versioning — never overwrite the canonical notebook in place. Stage edits in a
_pendingfile, promote in a separate atomic commit after the Colab re-run. pyLDAvis.enable_notebook()— has a stray-character trap; if the cell stops firing, the cause is usually a hidden numeral typed somewhere on the line.
F. Real numbers (Companies House FY2024)¶
PureGym FY2024 filing checked against the panel review's claims. Most claims about scale and growth are vindicated; a couple are stale. Line-by-line check in PUREGYM_FY2024_REAL_NUMBERS.md.
G. Open issues / known limitations¶
- Word count over the rubric ceiling. Report at ~1,200 prose words; rubric is 800-1,000. Decision: ship as-is on Russell's tolerance, flagged in the appendix.
- Sarcasm not handled. "Great, another broken treadmill" still labels as joy after the rerank — sarcasm detection is out of scope, but the volume looks small enough not to move the headline numbers.
- Top-30 location selection is by raw count, not rate. A high-volume club with proportionally average complaints will still land in the top-30. Rate-adjusted ranking is the obvious next pass.
- No causal claim on the reply-latency × emotion finding. PureGym replies fastest to joy and slowest to anger — that's the correlation; the causal direction (anger reviews are harder to reply to vs anger reviews are deprioritised) needs interview data we don't have.
H. Process / discipline learnings (Pierre's working rules)¶
The rules that ended up steering this project beyond the rubric.
- LLMs are unreliable on resources. Cost / time / RAM / disk-size claims are red by default unless: (a) quoted vendor pricing page, (b) measured from a real run, or (c) "I don't know, you decide". Relative units of work are fine; never mix with absolute hours/dollars.
- Verify before claiming. Before saying "this is live" or "X is reachable", run the check from the user's vantage. Especially for anything visible in a browser — curl-passes-but-browser-fails is a real failure mode.
- No default to incapacity. Never claim "I can't access X" without trying the documented path. Run the command, report the specific failure if it fails.
- Subtract by default. When adding X, name what retires.
- Caveman-clear, not dumbed down. Short sentences, one idea each, lead with the answer.
- Versioning is non-negotiable. Never overwrite a working notebook in place.
I. Hand-labelling discipline (anger/sadness gold)¶
The 200 hand-labelled emotion samples behind the OOD fix. Stratified by 1-star vs 2-star, Google vs Trustpilot. Each sample tagged with what the classifier said vs the true emotion. The pattern: polite complaint prose ("I have been a loyal customer for years, however...") consistently fools the Twitter-trained classifier.
J. Cross-session journey (chronological)¶
How the work happened across sessions.
- 2026-04-13 — opening pitch session, file-format reverse-engineering on a corrupted recording, first BrainDB-anchored Russell prep.
- 2026-04-14 — walkthrough redo with the anti-hype contract; bar-chart hallucination caught (the "deluded right now" turn — separating "research not good enough" from "follow-through not good enough").
- 2026-04-16 — cohort Q&A; Falcon → Qwen swap green-lit; iterative stopwords licensed.
- 2026-04-17 to 18 — Ollama → HF migration thrash; versioning rule promoted after a destructive in-place overwrite.
- 2026-04-19 — first stable end-to-end run on the corrected pipeline.
- 2026-04-24 to 25 — extended consultant report, Sonnet shift-worker validation (the headline-flipping audit), Russell 1:1 framework ("list the right things, let stakeholders price them up"), portfolio page deployed at
pace-nlp.pages.dev.