Digital Scholarship: Text Mining, Analysis, & Visualization

About: Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
Access: Free
Application type: Web application.

About: Focus on a specific word or phrase in a piece of text to see what words immediately follow or precede that word or phrase.
Access: Free.
Application type: Web application.

About: Upload a document to find related articles and topics.
Access: Available through Gordon Library's JSTOR subscription.
Application type: Web application.

About: Compare and collate versions of the same textual work.
Access: Create a free account to use this tool.
Application type: Web application.

About: Chart the frequency of use of a word or phrase over time. Data is drawn from the collection of books in GoogleBooks.
Access: Free.
Application type: Web application.

About: A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.
Access: Free.
Application type: Desktop client.

About: Text analysis tool. Add-on to Orange Canvas.
Access: Free. Open source.
Application type: Desktop client.

About: Clean your text, cut text into various size chunks, manage chunks and chunk sets, and choose from a suite of tools for analyzing text.
Access: Free.
Application type: Web application

About: MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
Access: Free download.
Application type: Desktop application.

About: Portal to tools used in text analysis. Users can browse tools by category, read reviews and recommendations, and comment and review collaboratively.
Access: Free.

About: Perform text analysis on provided sets of literary texts: Dickens novels, 19th century reference, 19th century children's literature, and other texts.
Access: No account required
Application type: Web application.

About: Open source library for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python.
Access: Free.

About: Explores the contents of the Richmond Daily Dispatch during the Civil War using topic modeling.
Tool: MALLET

About: Studies the use of biblical quotations in newspapers from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America project.

About: Sample text analysis assignment from an Introduction to Digital Humanities class at Emory University
Tool: Voyant Tools

About: This IQP uses data visualization, text analysis, and mapping to interpret American captivity narratives.
Tools: Neatline/Omeka, Voyant

Miller, A. (2018) Text mining digital humanities projects: Assessing content analysis capabilities of Voyant Tools. Journal of Web Librarianship, 12(3), 169-197. doi: 10.1080/19322909.2018.1479673

About: Analyzing text from a 17th century recipe book.
Tool: Voyant