Tools
Data analysis
For Starters
| Software & tools | Description |
|---|---|
| Voyant | Voyant is an online, text analysis tool. It allows users to upload or paste text and get back visualizations and analysis based on that text. Includes standard text analysis features such as topic modeling, word frequency, co-location of phrases, and more. |
| Lexos | Lexos is a great resource for visualizing large text sets through a web-based platform. |
| TAPoR 3 | Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) is a portal for discovering text analysis tools. |
| Orange | A data mining and visualization toolbox requires no programming or in-depth mathematical knowledge. Text-mining functions can be supported by installing Orange-Text addon. |
| Google Books Ngram Viewer | An online search engine that charts the frequencies of any set of search strings using a yearly count of n-grams. |
| SPSS | SPSS offers the ability to easily compile descriptive statistics, parametric and non-parametric analysis, as well as graphical depictions of results through the graphical user interface. |
| Concordle | Concordle helps create customizable word clouds based on the user's text data which visualizing how important words are in a collection of texts. |
| OpenRefine | Open source software that allows users to clean datasets prior to use. |
| Atlas.ti | A workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. |
| NVivo | A qualitative data analysis to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured data. |
Advanced with Programming
| Software & tools | Description |
|---|---|
| NLTK | NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. |
| spaCy | spaCy is a free open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python. It features NER, POS tagging, dependency parsing, word vectors and more. |
| AllenNLP | AllenNLP is an open-source project backed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). It is built on top of PyTorch and is designed to support researchers, engineers, students, etc., who wish to build high quality deep NLP models with ease. It provides high-level abstractions and APIs for common components and models in modern NLP). |
| Gensim | Gensim is a Python library for topic modelling, document indexing and similarity retrieval with large corpora. |
| WEKA | Weka contains a collection of visualization tools and algorithms for text analysis and predictive modeling. |
Geospatial analysis
For Starters
| Software & tools | Description |
|---|---|
| ArcGIS | Offers unique capabilities and flexible licensing for applying location-based analytics to your business practices. Gain greater insights using contextual tools to visualize and analyze your data. Collaborate and share via maps, apps, dashboards and reports. |
| QGIS | A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System to create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information. |
| Google Earth Pro | Google Earth Pro on desktop is free for users with advanced feature needs. Import and export GIS data, and go back in time with historical imagery. Available on PC, Mac, or Linux. |
| CARTO | A semi-free online platform to analysis and visualize geodata. |
| World Map | Open source system from Harvard for building own mapping portal. |
Advanced with Programming
| Software & tools | Description |
|---|---|
| Leaflet | Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It's lightweight and flexible for simple development. |
Data visualization
For Starters
| Software & tools | Description |
|---|---|
| Tableau Public | Tableau Public is free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web. |
| Gephi | Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. |
| Orange | A data mining and visualization toolbox requires no programming or in-depth mathematical knowledge. |
| Plotly | An online chart studio to publish and embed interactive charts online. Plotly also provide graphing libraries and framework for building web analytic applications which require programming skills in Python or R. |
| Datawrapper | Datawrapper is easy-to-use and creates nice charts and maps for embedding in websites. |
Advanced with Programming
| Software & tools | Description |
|---|---|
| R Studio | Free and open-source software for data science. Programming skill in R is required. |
| Timeline JS3 | An open sources tools which allows the public to build an interactive timeline with visual material. |
| D3 | A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data, require programming knowledge for data visualization. |