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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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Collaboration

iAnnotate

Full-featured app for reading, annotating, organizing, and sending PDFs. Offers ability to annotate PDFs with pen, highlighter, audio recordings, and photos. For iPad or Android tablet.

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IBM AeroText

IBM AeroText is an information extraction system for developing knowledge-based content analysis applications.

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Modeling

IBM InfoSphere

IBM InfoSphere is intended for enterprise-scale data warehouses, delivering access to structured and unstructured information and operational and transactional data.

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Visualization

IBM Many Eyes

A variety of visualisation tools are available for use with existing datasets, or upload your own. This is part of IBM's Collaborative User Experience (CUE) research lab. The software is available Web2.0style at no charge, just upload your data set, and choose one of 16 different presentation styles.

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Visualization

IBM: Many Eyes

Many Eyes is a free collection of data visualization tools enabling exploration and discussion of the data. Users who post comments on a visualization may also save their view for others to see in conjunction with their comment. Visualizations can be created from the data sets loaded into the site, or one can upload a new dataset for use. Note : Uploaded datasets are shared with the site.

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iBoogie

iBoogie is a clustering search engine that puts documents with similar content or with related topics into the same group. Each group is assigned a label based on the content of the documents. The results are presented to the user in a hierarchy of topics (clusters) for browsing.

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Curated lists

Curated list created by experience authors in the fields.

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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.

4 tools

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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

6 tools

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