For researchers who work with text
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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Analysis
Wufoo is an online form builder with built-in analytics. Free users are allowed to create up to three forms with up to 10 fields. The forms created can be used for a variety of purposes like registration, research data collection, payment collection, etc. The data gathered can be analyzed inside Wufoo or exported to popular spreadsheet formats
Analysis
XTRACT was a tool for lexical collocation developed by Frank Smadja, then of Columbia University. It was designed to use statistical techniques to identify collocations of aribitrary length, and to generate syntactic relationships between words. This tool is no longer available and does not have a web presence.
Analysis
YAGO is a semantic knowledge base of over 10 million entities, and over 120 million facts about those entities, developed by the Max Planck Institut Informatik. Its base derives from Wikipedia, WordNet and GeoNames, and the accuaracy has not only been manually evaluated, but relations are also provided with an annotation stating its confidence value. The YAGO ontology includes spacial and temporal dimensions, and integrates WordNet's thematic domains as well. It can be queried or browsed right from the website, and the full ontology is available for download.
Analysis
yWorks is a powerful set of tools for creating diagrams using any number of frameworks. There are tools for working with HTML, FLEX, AJAX, Silverlight, Java and .NET. yEd is also available from the yWorks site. This free graph editor can be used to create diagrams manually, or to import data for analysis.
Analysis
Yoshikoder is a free, open source cross-platform content analysis program. It works with text documents to apply basic content analysis in any language, examine KWIC, generate summaries and generate content analysis dictionaries.
Analysis
This free web-based tool allows you to scrape the comments from a YouTube video and save them in either a JSON or CSV format. The project is open source, and its code is available on github.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
Curated list created by experience authors in the fields.
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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