Research Guides: Digital Humanities at UMD: Favorite Tools for Digital Humanities

Text Analysis | Data Mining | Data Visualization

Wordle
A robust word cloud generator with extensive shape, color and font options.
Voyant-tools.org
"Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts."
Tableau
analytics platform makes easier for people to explore and manage data, and faster to discover and share insights that can change businesses and the world.
Python Programming
Anaconda offers the easiest way to perform Python/R data science and machine learning on a single machine.
Google Books NGram Viewer
Analyzes historical word occurrence, usage and changes over time and allows users to download data for more intensive research
Culturomics - Google Ngrams Addon
An add-on for Google Ngrams to download data sets.
Time Magazine Corpus
Offers access to American Mainstream Culutural Text Analysis via the complete text of the Time Magazine Archive (1923-2006)
Juxta
Juxta is a cross-platform tool for collating, comparing, and analyzing any kind or number of textual objects

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
This Directory, compiled by Jane Hart, contains over 1,000 entries categorized into 35 pages
Digital Research Tools
"The DiRT Directory makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."
Visualising Data
Select Tools from Datavisualization.ch

Omeka
Open or Hosted resource for archiving and displaying images and content. Free
CollectionBuilder
CollectionBuilder is an open source tool framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web technology.
Wax
Wax is a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.
Timeline.js
Using Java and a Google Sheets template, you can quickly create interactive timelines with images, videos and other content.
We Video
All in One, scalable web based story editor
Neatline
Mapping and Timeline Tool for Omeka Projects.

ArcGIS Online This link opens in a new window
University of Minnesota ArcGISonline Server access.

Census Data Viz
Examples of data visualizations from Census Data.
Canva
Freemium graphic design tool with infographic templates.
DighiMapper
A platform to analyze historical maps via georeferencing and annotating toponyms
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more info in the scholcomm blog: https://lib.d.umn.edu/scholarly-communications/dighimapper-platform-analyze-historical-maps

R-Project
R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display.
Data-Driven Documents (D3js)
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS
Walrus - Graph Visualization Tool
Walrus is a tool for interactively visualizing large directed graphs in three-dimensional space. By employing a fisheye-like distortion, it provides a display that simultaneously shows local detail and the global context.
PiktoChart
Freemium, easy to use infographic creator,