For researchers who work with text
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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Natural Language Processing
quanteda is an R package for managing and analyzing textual data. The package is designed for R users needing to apply natural language processing to texts, from documents to final analysis. It is free and open source. Some of its functions are: Tokenizing, corpus building, topic modeling, visualizations, text similarity measures.
Annotating
QuarkXPress desktop publishing software is commonly used to create page layouts for a variety of print publications such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters and brochures. Similar in function to InDesign, the main differences are Quark's unique features for exporting documents as interactive webpages as well as its widespread use by printers, typesetters and page designers. Features: Enables the production of HTML and XML content without the need to convert or refine documents Supports direct PDF importing and outputing according to regulations Fully supports Adobe Photoshop files, avoiding complicated and time-consuming conversions Uses OpenType and Unicode, making font and character settings easy Free TypeTricks XTension locates overset text boxes as well as widows and orphans Presents intuitive colour-management tools that includes the unique option of hexachrome printing Allows the customisation of line and border dashes and stripes as well as the merging of boxes to generate complex shapes Text runaround for hidden layers may be turned off Shared Content instantly incorporates any text or graphic changes consistently throughout a project XPress Composition Zones allow team members to work simulatenously on a project, with all modifications being updated instantly Job jackets keep print job specifications consistent throughout the project, ensuring their clarity and memorability
Visualization
QuickCode(used to call ScraperWiki) is an online tool to make that makes the process of data scraping simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world.
QuickVoice iP is a voice recorder for Mac and Windows, as well as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. You can record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, to do lists and entire lectures.
Visualization
Text analysis software aimed at beginners to qualitative research, and using live visualizations as the interface. Quirkos supports standard code-and-retrieve operations, searches and queries on the data, and can visualize connections between topics and themes. Find more information at http://www.quirkos.com/qualitative-data-analysis-software.html
Visualization
'Raining Words' is a tool designed to display word frequency information, minus the words in a chosen stop list, from a user-specified document in a Java applet. High frequency words appear larger and move more slowly than lower frequency words. This tool requires Java 1.4.2_08 or a more recent version for your browser. As the TAPoRware interface defaults to opening the applet in a new window, popups must also be enabled from the TAPoRware site in order to see the results. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
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.
4 tools
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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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