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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Visualization
FeatureLens is a free tool for visualizing and exploring patterns in text collections. This tool integrates the results of text-mining algorithms, and can assist in finding frequent words or ngrams, enabling the discovery of fuzzy repetition patterns. In addition, the tool will recommend features based on particular pattern types identified in the text.
Content Analysis
Unlock Text is a powerful geoparser that can search text hosted on the web in txt or html format for references to locations. These locations are then returned ready for use in your results page, web map or any other application. The Unlock Text API provides access to two parsers, the Edinburgh Geoparser from the Edinburgh Language Technology Group and the CLAVIN parser.
Analysis
URICA! II (User Response Interactive Collation Assistant) was an interactive collation program for the Macintosh. It semi-automated text collation, and assisted text comparison by 'tagging' variants or automatically reconciling small differences. URICA! II built upon the foundation of URICA!, the first iteration of the program.
Collaboration
Ushahidi is a software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, to build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It has been used for election monitoring, crisis and emergency response, civil society, city/community building, arts and even where to find the best burger. Specific tools: Crowdmap: A simple map-making tool, built on an open API, that allows for collaborative mapping Swiftriver: Curate real-time data and analysis from a variety of sources, including social media streams CrisisNET: A consolidated source of global crisis data Ping: Two-way multichannel group alert during an emergency SMSSync: Create a two way gateway with an Android phone and local SIM anywhere in the world BRCK: Supports connectivity in remote locations, self-powered, mobile WiFi device
Natural Language Processing
Techniques on using regular expressions to clean up a text for textual analysis.
Natural Language Processing
A beginner's notebook on using Regex to strip website content of tags.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 Nov
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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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