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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
A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with macros, to facilitate the visualization and analysis of Mallet topics. This spreadsheet accepts data from a topic model produced by Mallet. This sheet currently contains six macros that can be run by clicking the appropriate buttons.
Publishing
Pressbooks is a platform for collaboratively creating ebooks built over WordPress available as both a free service and on a subscription basis. Subscriptions are only required for users wanting to manage more than 5 books. eBooks can be generated in a variety of formats from several provided templates. Pressbooks integrates functionality for importing material from WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and assists in collaborative authoring with workflow management tools.
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This tool applies Principal Components Analysis rules to a text to generate relationships between words and text units. It works best with large texts where users can specify units of over 500 words. HTML and XML versions are not currently avaiable. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
Visualization
Prism is a visualization tool that represents texts based on crowdsourced interpretations. Users are encouraged to highlight words in a text according to categories ("facets"). Users' individual interpretations contribute to a visualization combining the interpretations of all users of the text. As such, it reveals patterns in subjective readings of a text.
Gathering
Content curation and topic discovery website based primarily on publishers the user follows through social media. Upon signing up, users are asked to select a number of topics that fall within their fields of interest. Relevant content is shown in a vertical feed. Users have the option to recommend, comment, share, remove the content from their feed, or save it. Prismatic "learns" from your behaviour which topics and publishers are of most interest to you. They say the more people who use it the better it gets, as recommendations figure greatly into popularity rankings. There are no human editors, just algorithms. Promoted features include connecting with communities who share your interests, learning from users who work in your field, the ability to share your discoveries with friends, and taking a "deep dive on any topic." According to Aria Haghighi, one of the founders "...we have an architecture similar to a search engine: polling and crawling the open web and activity on social networks." A 2013 article on Slate.com refers to Prismatic as "the world's smartest news reader". It's a good addition to other search and curation tools such as Google Alerts and saved Twitter hashtag searches. It aims to be better than the rest through use of parameters that are not static; it adjusts to your preferences as well as trending content on other social media sites.
Creation
Pro Tools is audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for pictures and video with out havingto use a variety of software. Features: - over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins - over 8 GB of audio loops - view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation - Supports files up to 4 GB
Week of 8 Nov – 14 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.
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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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