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TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.
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Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing data networks and pathways. Though designed for bioinformatic systems, it has been generalized to complex network analysis and has applications extending to the semantic web. Its core distribution has basic features for data integration and visualization, with additional features available via Java-based plugins.
Analysis
D3.js is a free, open source JavaScript library for manipulating documents with data utilizing HTML5, SVG and CSS3. It is designed to create visualizations that work with current web standards to make the best possible use of the most recent browsers without requiring a proprietary framework. This tool allows users to bind data to an Document Object Model (DOM) and apply data-driven transformations to the document.
Analysis
Data Desk implements traditional statistical techniques using a simple graphic display interface for data exploration. The program focuses specifically on the visual exploration of data.
Analysis
Data Desk is a commercial application for data exploration, analysis and visualization available for both OS X and Windows systems. It uses a graphical user interface to provide numerous tools for working with data, and can generate several distinct views. Notably, the program is designed from an exploratory rather than inferential analysis perspective. An academic license is available for users with a .edu email address; academic users without a .edu address can purchase by contacting Data Description, Inc. directly. A trial license is also available.
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Dataplot is a free software system for data analysis, including characterization, visualization and modelling. It was developed in FORTRAN 77, and has been in continuous development since 1978. Dataplot is well-documented, with numerous tutorials for using and extending it. In addiiton, over 30 graphic types are supported, such as histograms, box plots, scatter plots and normal probability plots. This tool is currently available in Unix, Linux, OS X and Windows versions. Dataplot is open source, but is trademarked rather than licensed.
Analysis
The DataTank is an open source tool that publishes data, stored in text-based files (e.g., CSV, XML, JSON) or in binary structures (e.g., SHP files, relational databases). The DataTank reads data from these structures and publishes them to the web using a URI as an identifier, providing these data in any format a user wants regardless of the original data structure. The DataTank requires a server with Apache2 or Nginx, mod rewrite enabled, PHP 5.4 or higher, Git, any database supported by Laravel 4. Features Turn any dataset into a RESTful HTTP API Allows published data to be requested in any web-readable format or visualization Improves the ease, openness, and transparency of data consumption Enables data consumers to immediately begin working, without needing to download raw data files Provides visualizations for immediate data interpretation and information gathering by civilians Resources The DataTank demo Documentation GitHub
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
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Holly Pickering
Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.
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Jason Bradshaw
This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca
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