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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
Processing is a free, open source programming language and development library for the visual arts. It is a software sketchbook, a way to visually learn programming fundamentals, and a tool for creating finished professional work, including mapping networks, textual analysis and producing visualizations. It runs under Windows, OSX and Linux environments, and can export graphics and applets in a variety of formats.
Visualization
ProcessingJS is an open source visual programming language for the work with data visualization, electronic arts and visual design communities. It operates under the web standards and doesn’t require any plug-ins. The tool promotes visual esthetics of computer programming on the web. ProcessingJS is a sister project to Processing .
Natural Language Processing
Profiler Plus is a commercial general-purpose text analysis program based on natural language processing. It supports multiple languages and can output in text, XML and CSV.
Programming
ProIcon was an implementation and expansion of the Icon programming language for Macintosh computers developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Though still best described as a programming language, it was also referred to as a text study and manipulation system, and as an information system. ProIcon functioned as a program development system, with an included an editor and an error handling system, and was compatible with Icon 7.
Annotating
Project Pad is web-based system for media annotation and collaboration for teaching and learning and scholarly applications. Project Pad provides tools for browsing and working with audio, video, and images from digital repositories. The user may organize and annotate excerpts within their own "online notebook." Available as a standalone web application or set of Sakai tools.
Visualization
Project Quincy is a free, open source Django application and MySQL database for tracing the development of social networks and instititions across time and space. Aimed at historians, it enables users to map networks in historical documentation such as biographic, organizational, correspondance or location. Creator Jean Bauer has developed Project Quincy as a single generalizable and extensible database with applications beyond mapping historic connections. All code is available via Github repository, or by contacting the creator directly.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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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.
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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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