Tools

Visualization

Quadrigram

Quadrigram is an environment for data gathering, query and visualization, based on a visual programming language and intended for users with no experience programming or creating visualizations. At present, it contains 50 different visualizers.

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Search

Qualrus

Qualrus is a commercial application for qualitative data analysis, including data coding and statistics functions. It can analyze data from a wide variety of sources, including common text, web, image, video and audio files. The data coding functions are supplemented by machine learning processes to assist data processing and analysis. In terms of analysis, it offers a number of common text analysis functions including tokenization, co-occurences, and Boolean search, and can visualize a network view of interrelationships. It is particularly aimed at academic and institutional applications, and both student and free trial versions are avaiable.

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Natural Language Processing

Quanteda

quanteda is an R package for managing and analyzing textual data. The package is designed for R users needing to apply natural language processing to texts, from documents to final analysis. It is free and open source. Some of its functions are: Tokenizing, corpus building, topic modeling, visualizations, text similarity measures.

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Annotating

QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress desktop publishing software is commonly used to create page layouts for a variety of print publications such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters and brochures. Similar in function to InDesign, the main differences are Quark's unique features for exporting documents as interactive webpages as well as its widespread use by printers, typesetters and page designers. Features: Enables the production of HTML and XML content without the need to convert or refine documents Supports direct PDF importing and outputing according to regulations Fully supports Adobe Photoshop files, avoiding complicated and time-consuming conversions Uses OpenType and Unicode, making font and character settings easy Free TypeTricks XTension locates overset text boxes as well as widows and orphans Presents intuitive colour-management tools that includes the unique option of hexachrome printing Allows the customisation of line and border dashes and stripes as well as the merging of boxes to generate complex shapes Text runaround for hidden layers may be turned off Shared Content instantly incorporates any text or graphic changes consistently throughout a project XPress Composition Zones allow team members to work simulatenously on a project, with all modifications being updated instantly Job jackets keep print job specifications consistent throughout the project, ensuring their clarity and memorability

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Visualization

QuickCode

QuickCode(used to call ScraperWiki) is an online tool to make that makes the process of data scraping simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world.

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QuickVoice iP

QuickVoice iP is a voice recorder for Mac and Windows, as well as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. You can record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, to do lists and entire lectures.

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Visualization

Quirkos

Text analysis software aimed at beginners to qualitative research, and using live visualizations as the interface. Quirkos supports standard code-and-retrieve operations, searches and queries on the data, and can visualize connections between topics and themes. Find more information at http://www.quirkos.com/qualitative-data-analysis-software.html

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Visualization

R

R is an open source programing language designed for statistical analysis and parallel computing. R began its life as a research project at the University of Aukland, but has since expanded to become a collaborativly run open source project run by the GNU. R has libraries for data import, regular expression data splitting, and visualization of data. R can be run as either a script or as a working environment.

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Visualization

Raining Words - Other (TAPoR)

'Raining Words' is a tool designed to display word frequency information, minus the words in a chosen stop list, from a user-specified document in a Java applet. High frequency words appear larger and move more slowly than lower frequency words. This tool requires Java 1.4.2_08 or a more recent version for your browser. As the TAPoRware interface defaults to opening the applet in a new window, popups must also be enabled from the TAPoRware site in order to see the results. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

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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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