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End to End is a visualization application for exploratory corpus analysis focused on collocations. This tool starts with two words and constructs a visual network of all collocations of those words within the corpus, while its interface enables interactive zooming and browsing of the resultant graph. Note: this tool is unavailable until licensing issues are resolved.
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The Extended Linguistic Dependency Diagrams (xLDDs) is a visualization software package offered by EURAC and implemented in JavaScript using the Protovis tookit. The xLDDs shows dependency structures with dynamic interaction in its visualizations, and can accomodate various types of linguistic information.
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interHist is a free visualization prototype offered by EURAC and implemented in JavaScript using the D3.js library. It enables users to interactively explore concordances from search queries and can accomodate large result sets in its display.
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Structured Parallel Coordinates is a free JavaScript data visualization tool offered by EURAC. It is intended for data that contains some kind of structure, such as temporal ordering, strings or ranked orderings. EURAC has provided several examples, such as ngram comparisons, (sub)corpus comparison and KWIC with live corpus queries.
“Geocaching is an online adventure where you can use your GPS or your phone to track a nearby “cache” which can be anything using the GPS location after setting up a free account.The aim is then to find an object of whichever shape or size, sign the logbook or even trade “nic-naks”.The geocaching application enables the user to connect to the geocaching world, login, log caches,use your device as a GPS and compass.
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Developed at Indiana University, Event Structure Analysis is made up of three components: Ethno, prerequisite analysis, and composition analysis. Ethno is an on-line Java program that helps you analyze sequential events; prerequisite analysis produces a diagram showing how events are connected; composition analysis involves coding agent, action, object, and other characteristics of each event.
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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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