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Word Brush - Beta (TAPoRware)
This tool is a Java applet that allows the user to paint with words extracted from an online document. Java 1.4.2_08 or newer is required.
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word tree
word tree is a free, web-based tool for generating dynamic word trees from user-supplied texts. Users can paste their text directly in the box provided, enter a URL or Twitter handle in the search bar, or install the bookmarklet into their browser's bookmarks bar to run the tool on their current page. Within the visualization, users can generate trees for any keyword based on search or from a click in the interface, and can reverse the direction of the tree (forward or back from the keyword within the text).
Visualization
WORDij
WORDij is a free semantic network tool for capturing relationships between words and assigning word-pair link strengths. This information is used as the basis for more sophisticated analysis, such as word network structure mapping. WORDij requires registration for download.
Visualization
WordSeer
WordSeer is a free, simple to use text analysis tool offered by the University of California Berkeley. It is entirely web based, with tools for search, reading and interrogating, heat maps and frequency. At this time, the only corpus available for exploration is the works of William Shakespeare.
Visualization
wordsimilarity (Word 2 Word)
wordsimilarity (Word 2 Word) is a free, open source tool for plotting and visualizing semantic spaces within a corpus. The tool's visualizations assign words to nodes, with similarities marked by edges between nodes of varying strength. The visualizations are designed to be easy to manipulate based on graph data, and the system includes a library of ready-to-use relationship models with an interface for training the models based on a variety of language sources.
Visualization
WordWanderer
WordWanderer is a free, web-based tool for visualizing and exploring text. It combines search, concordance and word cloud attributes to enable users to explore their texts. Users can paste their own texts into the box provided, or choose from a list of preloaded texts. It includes the ability to include or hide words based on parts of speech, a stop list or a user-provided list, and can display the text based on relative frequency, context or comparison. To view specific words, users can search them or click on them in the visualization.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
This week’s tools
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
Curated lists
Curated list created by experience authors in the fields.
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
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