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Highcharts

Highcharts is a battle-tested SVG-based, multi-platform charting library that has been actively developed since 2009. It makes it easy to add interactive, mobile-optimized charts to your web and mobile projects. It features robust documentation, advanced responsiveness and industry-leading accessibility support.

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HT-Bookworm

Bookworm is a tool that visualizes language usage trends in repositories of digitized texts in a simple and powerful way. It is a tool for culturomic exploration through the observation of chronological trends for words and phrases in large digitized collections of textual documents with metadata facets. The world's great research libraries have, over time, carefully assembled a rich body of metadata pertaining to the books in their collections. Since the HTRC has access to volume-level metadata as well as volume-level content, we have constructed a Bookworm of the HathiTrust Non-Google-digitized public domain (NGPD) corpus. We felt that setting up Bookworm with a HathiTrust corpus would provides scholarly researchers with the means of exploring trends. This tool enables scholars to discover new textual use patterns across the entire corpus. In the future, we plan to ingest the entire HathiTrust corpus and continue to identify appropriate metadata to use for the faceted browsing. This tool will be particularly useful to scholars interested in books that are still under copyright - which is the case for most books published after 1923. Although these books will not be available for reading or downloading online, working with individual words and phrases and tracking their occurrences through time will be useful to academic researchers, especially historians, sociologists and literary scholars. John Unsworth has noted that a fundamental goal of the humanities is appreciation: "by paying attention to an object of interest, we can explore it, find new dimensions within it, notice things about it that have never been noticed before, and increase its value" (2004). Shifting from traditional close reading to a large-scale view of text presents a profound discomfort for humanities scholars, due to the difficulty in retaining the same sensitivity to what is actually contained in the works being studied. HTRC-Bookworm will function as a link between quantitative analysis (distant reading) and close reading. According to Frederick Gibbs and Daniel Cohen, "any robust digital research methodology must allow the scholar to move easily between distant and close reading, between the bird's eye view and the ground level of the texts themselves" (2011). This is what HTRC-Bookworm intends to accomplish (within the limitations of applicable copyright laws.) Current limitations and future improvements: The current instantiation (the alpha version) of the HTRC-Bookworm is set up to work with only 250,000 out-of-copyright volumes from the HathiTrust NGPD corpus. Overall the HathiTrust has more than 11,000,000 volumes in all their corpus, consisting of 420 billion pages. As a demonstration we have selected some metadata for use with this smaller corpus, but we are open to feedback on improvements to this metadata. Our plan is to ingest the larger HathiTrust corpus and to allow facets to be selected based on HTRC worksets.

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I-Analyzer

I-Analyzer is a service created by the Digital Humanities Lab of Utrecht University. It has corpora that can be search with many filtering options. It has the option of different visualisations of the search results. It currently has three corpora with most contents in Dutch and Hebrew. It is free to use upon registration.

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IBM Many Eyes

A variety of visualisation tools are available for use with existing datasets, or upload your own. This is part of IBM's Collaborative User Experience (CUE) research lab. The software is available Web2.0style at no charge, just upload your data set, and choose one of 16 different presentation styles.

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IBM: Many Eyes

Many Eyes is a free collection of data visualization tools enabling exploration and discussion of the data. Users who post comments on a visualization may also save their view for others to see in conjunction with their comment. Visualizations can be created from the data sets loaded into the site, or one can upload a new dataset for use. Note : Uploaded datasets are shared with the site.

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Visualization

iCharts

iCharts BI is the leading native visual reporting application for companies today. Build robust visuals and analytics without leaving your ERP dashboard. Provide a native NetSuite experience to all your users Manage your reporting and analytics Visualize your NetSuite data in real-time Learn more from your NetSuite data

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant 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.

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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

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