Tools

Analysis

Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network

The Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network is a free, web-based tool for ranking pages based on inlink counts from a user-supplied Issuecrawler XML file. It outputs a three-column table with numbers, the inlink count from the core network, and the inlink count from the periphery of the network.

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Visualization

Lippmannian Device to Gephi

The Lippmannian Device to Gephi is a free, web-based tool for converting the output of the Digital Methods Association's Googlescraper (Lippmannian Device) tool to a format suitable for Gephi visualization. From a Googlescraper file, it generates a GEXF file with defined nodes and weighted edges based on the queries and URLs in the original file. Once loaded into Gephi, the nodes can be resized to emphasize the most important query/URL combinations.

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Analysis

Open Calais Issue Discovery

Open Calais Issue Discovery is a free, open source tool for textual analysis. From a text file, URLs or an Issuecrawler XML file, it generates a ranked table of terms and an overall count corresponding to the most relevant words and phrases in the source text or issue network.

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Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)

Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT) is a free, open source tool for capturing and analyzing tweets. The tool's web interface is currently closed to researchers outside the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies department, however, the source code is available for download and installation via Github.

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Netlytic

Netlytic is a free, web-based tool for analyzing and visualizing text and social network data. It enables users to capture data from sources such as social media, blogs or online forums; identify themes and actors; and generate both chain and personal name networks for further analysis and visualization. Users can import datasets from RSS, cloud storage (Google Drive or Dropbox), Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and a plain text file. Results can be exported in formats accessible to other network analysis tools, such as CSV.

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TAGS (Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet) v5.1

TAGS (Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet) v5.1 is a tool for automatically pulling Twitter search results into a Google spreadsheet for further analysis. Users can set TAGS 5.1 to update the resulting archive hourly or at a frequency of their specification, and includes options for filtering out spam, result pagination, and setting an upper limit on tweets collected (to a maximum of 18000).

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Visualization

Poem Viewer

Poem Viewer is a free, web based experimental tool for exploring, analyzing and visualizing poetry based on linguistic characteristics, for use as a supplement to close reading. Users can choose from a list of pre-loaded poems, or paste a poem of their choosing into the provided text box.

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Prospéro (PROgramme de Sociologie Pragmatique, Expérimentale et Réflexive sur Ordinateur)

Prospéro (PROgramme de Sociologie Pragmatique, Expérimentale et Réflexive sur Ordinateur) is a free text analysis tool aimed at scholars in the Humanities capable of complex analysis on natural language. It permits users to classify and track records or thematic sets within a text or corpus for the purpose of exploration, analysis and comparison. It identifies places in a text that display uncertainty, controversy, criticism, and enables the user to establish rule and meta-rules to separate factual statements from views and interpretations. Prospéro is particularly designed for complex cases composed of large texts containing heterogenous discourse.

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Natural Language Processing

Stanford Sentiment Analysis

The Stanford NLP Group's Sentiment Analysis tool is a free, web based live demo based on a sentiment analysis treebank, trained to predict the sentiment in movie reviews. Users can test out the sentiment analysis model with their own text in the box provided. The dataset and code is available for download, and the sentiment analysis model is now integrated into Stanford CoreNLP.

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twXplorer

twXplorer is a free, web-based tool for querying Twitter and exploring the search results based on common words, hashtags and commonly shared links. Each search brings up the 500 most recent tweets for that search term, and the tool permits users to save 'snapshots' for later analysis. twXplorer requires users to log in with their Twitter account.

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