Data-Driven Scholar’s Toolkit
Below is a large list of tools arranged by topic if you want to explore either familar tools or go beyond the scope of the course. You are free to incorporate any tool or resource for your projects. Links for online help, popular DH discussion spots, professional associations, journals, blogs, and applied historical tutorials all can help you forge your own path and grow as a scholar long after this class is over.
Text Analysis
- Orange - Text & data analysis, machine learning, and more
- Overview Docs - Text Analysis
- Voyant - Text Analysis
- WordSmith - Text Concordance Tool for Windows
Data Visualization
- Tableau Academic - Professional Data Visualization Platform
- Palladio - Data Visualization
- Raw - Data Visualization
Getting/Cleaning Data
- Webscraper.io - Chrome extension to scrape data
- OpenRefine - Tools to clean and normalize messy data
- Tabula - Tool to easily convert data tables from PDFs into Excel files
- Breve - Data Visualization/Cleaning
Modeling and Spatial Analysis
Networks
- Gephi - Network Analysis
Graphics
- QGIS - GIS/Mapping
Other
Troubleshooting
- Google - Seriously
- Stack Overflow - Programming and general troubleshooting forum
- Digital Humanities Slack Channel - Large Slack chat channel of professionals in DH
- Python 3 Reference - Online documentation for Python 3