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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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Voyant ScatterPlot

ScatterPlot creates a scatter plot graph of terms, spaced by their variation from one another. Once you arrive to ScatterPlot, insert / upload your content and let the tool perform its analysis. You may hover over these dots and click on them for more information.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

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Distribution Graph - XML (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a graphical distribution list of words found within specific XML elements. HTML and plain text versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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Issue Discovery

Issue Discovery is a tool for extracting the most prominent words and phrases from user-supplied URLs, texts or Issuecrawler XML result files. It is designed as a heuristic for data exploration rather than as an empirical tool.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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OrlandoVision (OVis)

An application for visualizing a specific collection of authors, and the links or associations between them. Links are determined by co-occurrence in the Orlando dataset. The current dataset consists of authors, other people associated with them, and the text entries upon which these associations are based. The application is designed in such a way that it could be extended to use other datasets as well. The display can be customized in the several ways. Node colours, shapes and sizes can be altered. More significantly, the layout of the graph can be chosen from amongst several different algorithms. As the collection is quite large, there are many filtering options available. In terms of author, the following categories can be specified: gender, author/non-author, and author nationality. The user can create complex search queries of the authors and the text, and specify a date restriction for the authors' life span. Each association in the text has been tagged with one or more semantic attributes, i.e. the type or meaning of the relation between the people. These tags have been organized into a tree, moving from general to more specific relations. Each tag in the tree can be checked/unchecked, further filtering the results. Finally, a data set and customizations can be saved as a session which can then be loaded at a later time. In addition, screenshots of the current layout can be saved to an image file.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Voyant 2.0: Bubblelines

Bubblelines lets you compare the distribution of words across documents. Each document is a horizontal line with bubbles where the word appears. Documentation here.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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Voyant Mandala

Mandala is a visualization tool that imports “textual” files to perform analysis on the frequency and linkage of words. For example, you may import a play and find the linkage and frequency between a word and its speaker.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.

4 tools

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Holly Pickering

Audio Production Software

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.

3 tools

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Jason Bradshaw

TATR: Text Analysis for Twitter Research

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

6 tools

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