This list contains a number of tools that focus on exploring and analyzing social media through different approaches. If focuses on several networks, though twitter is the most common focus. This is a good introduction to a wide variety of tools that vary both in difficulty and type of analysis.

This list is focused on using the WIScker Wikipedia scraper to analyze the historical makeup of a Wikipedia article in different ways. It includes a number of visualizations that can be used with WIScker, and is an interesting and accessible first experience in text analysis. Additionally, by using the Wiki Map Project, users can map the connections between various articles linked to and by their original article of study.