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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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Visualization

nodegoat

nodegoat creates visualizations and provides a graphical user interface for the maintenance of data. It combines a variety of data management functions into one program.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

NVivo is a commercial software package for creating workspaces and corpuses. Its features include importing YouTube videos and comments, social media posts and discussions, web page and PDF capture, multiple language support and support for a wide variety of data formats such as spreadsheets, images, database tables and so on. Users can query their data in a variety of ways, annotate, cross-link and visualize connections, ideas and findings with charts, maps and models

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle is a comprehensive diagramming and drawing application. Drag and drop to create wireframes, flow charts, network diagrams, UI mockups, family trees, office layouts, etc.. Upgrading to OmniGraffle Pro adds Visio support, shared layers, presentation mode, object-geometry controls, AppleScript and Actions support and more.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Onodo

Onodo is a user friendly tool for doing basic visualisation and analysis within a browser making it cross-platform right out of the box. Data can be entered via their intuitive, in-browser node and edge creation tables or imported from a file. As data is added it is instantly previewed and displayed. The visual appearance can be tweaked on the fly and customised in a variety of ways (including applying a unique image or URL to each node). Once created, visualisations can be embedded and shared outside of the Onodo browser environment. Moreover, with a click of a button, Onodo calculates standard network parameters such as betweenness, closeness and displays these values within the table. It calculates and demonstrates basic network parameters and measures quickly and allows for the creation of chapters that cement using the visualisation as a data-driven narrative device.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

OpenLayers

OpenLayers is a Javascript library that can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source in web browser. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications. OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. It is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Orange

Orange is a free, open source data visualization and analysis tool. It allows users to conduct data mining either through its visual programming language, or via Python scripts, and includes components for machine learning. Orange includes both add-ons for biometrics and text mining, and data analytic features.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

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Analysis

Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.
Natural Language Processing

TUSTEP

TUSTEP (Tubingen System of Text Processing Tools) is a free, open source, widely-used toolbox for text processing. It is aimed at scholarly audiences, can work with texts in both latin and non-latin scripts, and is primarily designed for humanites applications. Its modules include data capture, information retrieval, text collation, text analysis, sorting and ordering, rule-based textual manipulation, data export and typesetting. The user manual is only available in German at this time. This tool has been in continuous development since the 1960s.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.
Visualization

Wordle

Wordle is an online toy for generating word clouds using the text you provide. Text can be submitted by providing an URL or by pasting raw text into an input. The most frequent words from the text are then used as the source for the resulting visualization, where frequency is used to determine the size of each word. You may customize the output by choosing from a variety of display options (layout, font, colours) or use the randomize feature to get a random visualization. Additionally, there is built-in stop word support for many common languages, and the option to change the word case.

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

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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