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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Analysis
The Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network is a free, web-based tool for ranking pages based on inlink counts from a user-supplied Issuecrawler XML file. It outputs a three-column table with numbers, the inlink count from the core network, and the inlink count from the periphery of the network.
Visualization
RapidMiner is an open source data mining tool with a GUI interface, available in both a free, unsupported 'community version' and a for-pay, fully supported 'enterprise edition'. It utilizes a standardized XML interchange format for processing, and is compatible with common relational databases and spreadsheet applications.
Analysis
RATS (Random-Accessible Text Systems) was a PL/I utility for text analysis developed by John B. Smith of Pennsylvania State Univeristy in the early 1970s. It was aimed at researchers with some experience with programming and aimed to streamline the text analysis process while permitting users to customize the program to suit their work. As a system, Smith promoted RATS for concordences, thematic distributions and transitional matrixes.
Visualization
RAW is a free, open-source web application for creating visualizations that can be exported in SVG or PNG format and embedded into a website. Users can upload data with RAW's web interface and generate a variety of vector-based visualizations. RAW uses the D3.js library, and is maintained by the Density Design research studio at Polaitecnico di Milano.
Search
This tool can find a user-specified string of characters anywhere in a text document. If the string is part of a word or another non-space string, the word or the non-space string will be displayed as a unit. The search can also be used to view a concordance of either words, sentences, or lines surrounding the result. The tool will treat HTML or XML text as plain text. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
Visualization
RDF Gravity (RDF Graph Visualization Tool) is a free, open-source visualization tool from Salzburg Research's Knowledge Information Systems Group. It supports RDF graph structures and OWL ontologies, including multiple RDF files, and offers a variety of filters for its visualizations.
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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