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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The Google Blogsearch Scraper is a free, web-based tool for batch querying Google Blog Search. Users can submit a list of URLs to search, and a set of keywords to apply to them. For each query, the tool supplies a tag cloud and an HTML table, plus a text file that may be downloaded for further analysis.
Search
Google Books provides full, free PDF scans (and web-viewable versions) of public domain books and magazines, free previews of some books and magazines under copyright, and the option to purchase digital editions of available items to save and read on Google Play, their e-reading platform. You can also find a local library based on your zip code that has the item available. Reader reviews of the items are available and you can contribute your own. Search for authors, titles, as well as keywords and Google will return results with matches in the title/text of the item. There are permalinks to available pages. Highly useful for finding items that contain your keywords in its text. It has the Google Ngram Viewer as part of its service. The Ngram Viewer is a service connected to Google Books that graphs the frequency of word usage across their book collection
Visualization
Google Charts (formerly the Google Visualization API) is a web-based interface for interactive data visualization via HTML5 and SVG. It includes a number of preset chart types ranging from line charts to word trees and all are customizable. A separate selection of user community contributed chart types is also available. Within a chart, the API identifies events that users can trigger with presets ranging from simple clicks to Javascript methods, and enable users to construct chart dashboards that can be embedded in their website along with the chart proper.
Visualization
Find searches that correlate with real-world data: Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.
Gathering
News and RSS reader designed for iOS and Android mobile devices. Has been replaced by Google Play Newsstand (https://play.google.com/store/newsstand?hl=en)
Collaboration
Google Docs is an online environment for editing and sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, drawings, and tables. Google Docs documents can be public or private, or shared with anyone with a Google account, e-mailed, or downloaded in various formats, including conversions to PDF and other formats not identical to the original or to the proprietary format used at creation. Designated people with whom items are shared can be given permission to comment or edit the files, thus providing a quick way to collaborate on creating and editing documents and presentations.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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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.
4 tools
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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.
3 tools
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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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