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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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Massive Pixel Environment

Massive Pixel Environment (formerly Most Pixels Ever: Cluster Edition) is a library from the Texas Advanced Computing Center's A Thousand Words Project, inspired by and expanding on the original Most Pixels Ever developed by Daniel Shiffman. It extends Processing sketches to multi-node tile displays, enabling users to display output across multiple systems and displays, at the native resolution of those displays. This allows for a dramatic increase in the amount of data that may be visualized at one time, in comparison to a single-screen display.

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MassMine

MassMine is a command line tool designed for researchers to simplify the collection and use of data from online sources such as social media networks. Geared toward novices and power users alike. Designed for use on personal computers or on headless servers. Handles the acquisition of API data while managing rate limits imposed by these services. Makes setting up custom data requests easy, allowing for flexible deployment for individualized research needs. Creates and manages databases of collected data automatically. This means that all tweets, trends, posts, etc. related to your research questions are saved permanently on your local hard drive. Designed for long-running data collection projects. MassMine makes it easy to create your own database of social media content spanning days, months, or years.

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Matlab

MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, Java, and Fortran.

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MAXQDA

MAXQDA is a commercial software package for facilitating qualitative and mixed methods research. It includes a graphical interface for organizing and categorizing data, and can import data in a wide variety of formats, including web formats, images, audio and video and spreadsheets. Data can be encoded in several ways, such as keywords, colours or symbols. It includes visualization and report generation.

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McGill Characterization Process - Alias Identifier

Part of the McGill Characterization Process family. Examines all the texts in a data directory and uses the output from the Character Parser to pick out all the aliases for the characters in the aforementioned texts. Output is in JSON format and is required for the rest of the tools in this family. Extensive setup required. Please consult the readme on github for setup instructions.

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McGill Characterization Process - Calculate Character Centrality

Part of the McGill Characterization Process family. Examines all the texts in a data directory, and using the analysis already done by the Collocate Parser, Alias Identifier, and Character Parser, gives data for the centrality of characters for each text, allowing the texts to be ranked against each other based on this. Extensive setup required. Please consult the readme on github for setup instructions.

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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.

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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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