One of the most confusing errors in Python is the error “No module named pyLDAvis”. This error is commonly met during the installation of pyLDAvis. Many find this error very unhelpful especially since it is almost useless without more information. This blog is a step-by-step tutorial on how to fix this.

How Does The Error “No module named pyLDAvis” Occur?

You’d like to make use of pyLDAvis. It’s there, but you can’t import it for whatever reason. The message ‘requirement already satisfied’ appears after installing pyLDAvis. However, when you utilize it, it imports. However, you receive the following error.

No module named pyLDAvis

How To Fix The Error “No module named pyLDAvis”?

Option 1: Change the pyLDAvis gensim name

To fix the “No module named pyLDAvis” error, simply change the pyLDAvis gensim name. The interactive viz works utilizing gensim models instead of gensim.

import pyLDAvis 
import pyLDAvis.gensim_models as gensimvis 
pyLDAvis.enable_notebook() 
# feed the LDA model into the pyLDAvis instance 
lda_viz = gensimvis.prepare(ldamodel, corpus, dictionary)

Bad lines will be skipped as a result of this. Now, you have fixed your issue.

Option 2: Do as the following

This appears to be effective. Let’s do as the following if you are working on the Google Colaboratory:

!pip install pyLDAvis 
import pyLDAvis 
import pyLDAvis.gensim_models 
pyLDAvis.enable_notebook() 
vis = pyLDAvis.gensim_models.prepare(ldamodel, doc_term_matrix, dictionary) 
vis

Option 3: Run the following command

Besides the options mentioned above, you can do as the guide below to solve the problem “No module named pyLDAvis”.

If you are using a Jupyter notebook, you can run the following command to fix the error:

import pyLDAvis.gensim_models

Rather than running:

import pyLDAvis.gensim

After doing that, your problem will be solved.

Conclusion

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