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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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Summarizer - Plain Text (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a summary of statistical information on a given document, and enables the user to select what types of information to display in the summary. The options include high frequency words, sentences with high frequency words, high frequency word context, collocation and element/text distribution. HTML and XML versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Summarizer - XML (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a summary of statistical information on a given document, and enables the user to select what types of information to display in the summary. The options include high frequency words, sentences with high frequency words, high frequency word context, collocation and element/text distribution. HTML and plain text versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is a free online Flash-based image editor that works in a web browser, without needing to install anything on your device. It has functionality similar to Photoshop and offers many of the same tools but is focused on illustration rather than photo editing. Sumo Paint offers community features such as uploading, commenting, and rating images for users who create free accounts. The paid pro version of the software features a downloadable version of the software which runs on Adobe AIR. Sumo API allows you to embed Sumo Apps to your site. You can integrate Sumo API for free for non-commercial use. Paid subscriptions allow access to the downloadable editor, increased image resolution, enhanced customer support, and early access to new features. Sumo is planning on releasing a photo editor in the near future.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Content Analysis

Superfastmatch

Superfastmatch is designed to find exact duplicates of text strings between documents.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Survey Daddy

Create a survey to measure and record your students' progress against curriculum outcomes. Use Likert questions to rate students based on a rubric and text questions to record qualitative data to share with parents and faculty. **This item is being upgraded to PollDaddy: Your login details and account will remain the same, you will now login at Polldaddy.com.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Collaboration

Survey Monkey

Survey Monkey is a web-based survey creation and distribution site, with free and paid plans that allow users to create surveys and collect responses through a link, email, Facebook, or being embedded in a website or blog. Survey Monkey also allows for the collect and analysis of data.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

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Analysis

Concordle

Concordle is a free, web based word cloud and concordance tool built in Javascript. It describes itself as the "not so pretty cousin of Wordle" and first debuted in 2006. Users can paste text into the provided box and generate a word cloud, concordance or list of words ordered by frequecy. It also includes a field for stop words.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.
Visualization

Omeka

Omeka is a content management system designed for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Omeka allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.
Visualization

Voyant Cirrus

Cirrus is a visualization tool that displays a word cloud relating to the frequency of words appearing in one or more documents. One can click on any word appearing in the cloud to obtain detailed information about its relativity.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

Geoffrey Rockwell

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Audio Production Software

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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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