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Crossfilter

Fast Multidimensional Filtering for Coordinated Views Crossfilter is a JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely fast ( Since most interactions only involve a single dimension, and then only small adjustments are made to the filter values, incremental filtering and reducing is significantly faster than starting from scratch. Crossfilter uses sorted indexes (and a few bit-twiddling hacks) to make this possible, dramatically increasing the perfor­mance of live histograms and top-K lists.

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Crowdmap

Crowdmap allows the investigator to set up a Web map around a particular topic and invite multiple users (participants, research subjects, collaborators, multiple assistants) to contribute information to the map on their own time and from their own device. For $10/month, users can buy fee-based services including private maps and custom branding. Users have complained that Crowdmap is glitchy and unreliable. It is hard to find recent examples of successful projects built with the app. There is no other free and open source tool that fills the precise niche. For a freemium closed source service that allows crowdsourced point data only, try ZeeMaps. For a fee-based, open source crowd mapping tool, try the shared tables function of CartoDB.

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cue.language

cue.language is a free library of Java code and resources for basic natural language processing emerging from the development of the Wordle word cloud tool and maintained by Jonathan Feinman of IBM's CUE Research Group. Its functions include tokenization, counting strings, detecting the script alphabet or writing system required to represent the text, guess the text's language and customizeable stop word detection.

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CulturalAnalytics

CulturalAnalytics, also known as Cultural Analytics for the Digital Humanities in R, is a free R package of functions for statistical analysis and plotting image properties, developed by Rob Myers specifically for the Digital Humanities, and of value to anyone else with an interest in examining digital or digitized images. It includes statistical functions and can generate histograms, colour clouds, image scatter charts and more.

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Cytoscape

Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing data networks and pathways. Though designed for bioinformatic systems, it has been generalized to complex network analysis and has applications extending to the semantic web. Its core distribution has basic features for data integration and visualization, with additional features available via Java-based plugins.

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D3.js

D3.js is a data visualization library by Mike Bostock, who is also the primary creator of Protovis, which D3 is designed to replace. There is a great introductory tutorial available from Luke Franci. It is one of many other tutorials linked to from Bostock's D3 wiki.

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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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