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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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Capture

Capture Fox

Capture Fox is a Firefox plugin that allows the user to record their voice and their sccreen.

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Carbonmade Online Portfolio

An easy and user-friendly online portfolio web based tool. Suitable for illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, writers, journalists, marketers, public relations, communications work.

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Creation

carrd.co

Templates to build single page websites. Ideal for personal websites to show personal work or as a landing page.The websites built can be viewed on any screen size. It is free to use but the many templates require pro membership which has a fee.

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Search

Carrot2

Carrot2 is a free, open source search clustering engine with additional document categorization functions. For each set of search terms, Carrot2 provides a topic tree and subtopics built from the search results, and generates visualizations that enable users to quickly overview their search. Searches can be filtered according to source, such as Bing, image files or the Wikipedia, results can be clustered according to several presets such as K-means or URL, or filtered by country and langauge. Carrot2 enables users to download results in ranges from 50 to 200 for further analysis.

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Visualization

CartoDB

CartoDB makes data-driven map visualisation tool. It's very easy to upload a couple of spreadsheets of data, with latitudes and longitudes or addresses, and turn them into clickable markers on maps. There are several types of pre-canned visualisation, such as categories, choropleths or even animated "torque" maps. It's also a sophisticated platform allowing complex visualisations to be built up using Javascript and the CartoDB API.

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Search

Casual

Casual is a free, open source tool for generating a visualization of concepts from a key word search. It uses Wikipedia for conceptual information, and can also include Google Image search results where applicable. Users can click on a term to generate a new search from that term, while image results can be rearranged by clicking and dragging them to the desired location. Casual can produce visualizations ranging from 10 to 400 concepts in size, and can retrieve information for queries in a wide variety of languages. This tool is no longer supported; development appears to have ceased in 2009.

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

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

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.

3 tools

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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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