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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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TWINT - Twitter Intelligence Tool

Twint is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter's API. Twint utilizes Twitter's search operators to let you scrape Tweets from specific users, scrape Tweets relating to certain topics, hashtags & trends, or sort out sensitive information from Tweets like e-mail and phone numbers. I find this very useful, and you can get really creative with it too. Twint also makes special queries to Twitter allowing you to also scrape a Twitter user's followers, Tweets a user has liked, and who they follow without any authentication, API, Selenium, or browser emulation. Recently it looks like Twitter has found a way to limit the number of tweets scraped using twint. Twint also has a visualizer and a desktop app is under development.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Collaboration

Twitter

Twitter allows users to send 140-character messages. There is a thriving digital humanities community of Twitter users. This tool is great for communicating and sharing ideas, micro-blogging, real-time communication. You can follow tweets about digital humanities https://twitter.com/hashtag/digitalhumanities.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Twitter Archiver (TWARC)

twarc is a command line tool and Python library for archiving Twitter JSON data. Each tweet is represented as a JSON object that is exactly what was returned from the Twitter API. Tweets are stored as line-oriented JSON.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)

Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT) is a free, open source tool for capturing and analyzing tweets. The tool's web interface is currently closed to researchers outside the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies department, however, the source code is available for download and installation via Github.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Storage

TwitterPad

WordPress plug-in for archiving tweets. "This plugin hasn't been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress."

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

twXplorer

twXplorer is a free, web-based tool for querying Twitter and exploring the search results based on common words, hashtags and commonly shared links. Each search brings up the 500 most recent tweets for that search term, and the tool permits users to save 'snapshots' for later analysis. twXplorer requires users to log in with their Twitter account.

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

Cool Voyant Tools

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Holly Pickering

Audio Production Software

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

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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