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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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A Jupyter notebook that show some methods of comparing documents. The methods included are: -Document term matrix -TF-IDF -Cosine similarity -Visualizing document similarity with scatterplots -Visualizing document similarity with dendrograms
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Juxta is a free, open source tool for comparing and collating texts, originally intended for comparing multiple versions of the same text. It offers several views and visualization options, including histograms and side by side comparison. Juxta is available as both a desktop application and as a web service that can be integrated into the user's own website.
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JuxtaposeJS helps tell stories by comparing two image frames, including photos and gifs. It provides a means, by a draggable pane, to see the changes and visually analyse the differences between the two images. It’s an adaptable storytelling tool that is ideal for highlighting then/now stories that explain slow changes over time (growth of a city skyline, regrowth of a forest, etc.) or before/after stories that show the impact of single dramatic events (natural disasters, protests, wars, etc.). JuxtaposeJS is free, easy to use, and open source. Almost anyone can use JuxtaposeJS, so long as you’ve got links to two similar pieces of media (hosted on your own server or on Flickr). Once you’ve got the links, all you need to do is copy and paste the URLs into the appropriate fields at Juxtapose.knightlab.com, modify labels as you see fit, add photo credits, and then copy and paste the resulting embed code into your site. You’ve probably seen similar photo slider tools elsewhere. They work well, but we built JuxtaposeJS without relying on jQuery, which makes the tool more lightweight, flexible, and adaptable. It’s also accessible to any newsroom or journalist, regardless of technical skills. It also offers some customization out of the box. You can modify the handle’s start position to highlight the area of change and choose to click the slider instead of dragging. It is responsive and works on phones and tablets with the touch or swipe of a finger.
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Kartograph is a pair of free and open source libraries for representing data with a spatial component on webpages or in print. The first library, Kartograph.py, is a Python library that builds lightweight vector graphic maps from either shapefiles or PostGIS tables. These graphics files can be styled either using a cascading style sheet during creation or later on the second library, Kartograph.js. The vector files can also be edited and enhanced in a vector graphics program like Adobe Illustrator. Kartograph.js allows the user to create interactive maps for web pages and web applications, using vector graphics files and data files to both draw the basemap and the features of interest. Unlike many web-based mapping libraries, Kartograph.js requires no server or even internet connection. All of the pertinent information is in the vector and data files. The results are highly customizable and can absolutely arresting, visually.
Visualization
LATtice is a free visualization tool for exploring and comparing texts across corpora. It also has features for 'drilling down' to determine what rhetorical categories make texts similar or different, and shows multiple visualizations in the same view. Documentation is available with download, and LATtice is available in Windows, OS X and Linux versions.
Visualization
This JavaScript library can be used to create mobile-friendly interactive maps. It does not provide data to map, but can be used to map spatial data in GeoJSON format, or display tiles from other sources such as MapBox.
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.
4 tools
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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.
3 tools
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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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