What is Refinery?

Refinery is an open source platform for the massive analysis of large unstructured document collections using the latest state of the art topic models. The goal of Refinery is to simplify this process within an intuitive web-based interface. What makes Refinery unique is that its meant to be run locally, thus bypassing the need for securing document collections over the internet. Refinery was developed by myself and Ben Swanson at MIT Media Lab. It was also the recipient of the Knight Prototype Award in 2014.