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Model of Models

A free research platform for text mining and topic modeling across millions of scholarly documents.

Explore language patterns in PubMed, JSTOR, HathiTrust, social media archives, and public datasets through machine learning, BERT projections, network analysis, and interactive visualizations.

Initially designed and developed at the University of Cincinnati with funding from the Mellon Foundation, MoM is now maintained at Northwestern University Libraries.

Research at corpus scale

Topic modeling

Build LDA, pyLDAvis, and multilevel topic models from large scholarly and public text collections.

BERT projection

Explore document embeddings, semantic clusters, and timeline views for curated research datasets.

Social network analysis

Study public discourse through Twitter/X interaction networks, timelines, and named-entity views.

Public research maps

Connect data to place through interactive projects such as CO2 emissions, race, income, and metropolitan change.