{"id":604,"date":"2021-03-20T18:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/?page_id=604"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T22:53:23","slug":"research-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/lagniappe\/research-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-888\" src=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2025\/05\/GeLm4jsWMAAM4Mo-242x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2025\/05\/GeLm4jsWMAAM4Mo-242x300.jpeg 242w, https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2025\/05\/GeLm4jsWMAAM4Mo.jpeg 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-767 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2023\/02\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>A compilation of different types of tools that can assist with analysis and display related to research.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Test data mining, text encoding, text\/corpus analysis<\/h2>\n<p>junta<\/p>\n<p>Voyant&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616336095330000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEE1BWQowcMeKHnPFZAM7wprNomTg\">https:\/\/voyant-tools.o<wbr \/>rg\/<\/a>&gt; (free):<br \/>\n*\u00a0 \u00a0Lexos &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/lexos.wheatoncollege.edu\/upload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/lexos.wheatoncollege.edu\/upload&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616336095330000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrxg1Dvko-SGCVNtHy2AmxmG0p2w\">http:\/\/lexos.wheatoncollege.e<wbr \/>du\/upload<\/a>&gt; (free):<br \/>\n*\u00a0 \u00a0Word Tree&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasondavies.com\/wordtree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.jasondavies.com\/wordtree\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616336095330000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGVBPWQf7M9sqTdeJvjU5lCxyynBA\">https:\/\/www.jasondavies.c<wbr \/>om\/wordtree\/<\/a>&gt; (free):<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 \u00a0MALLET &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/mallet.cs.umass.edu\/topics.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/mallet.cs.umass.edu\/topics.php&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616336095330000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEoG7U2YjHclh_82J6Xv16WMlzx0A\">http:\/\/mallet.cs.umass.edu\/to<wbr \/>pics.php<\/a>&gt; (free): For topic modeling!<br \/>\n*\u00a0 \u00a0AntConc &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenceanthony.net\/software\/antconc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.laurenceanthony.net\/software\/antconc\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616336095330000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGI2zqEFtoYAIdiJZ24eQIXZfh3MQ\">http:\/\/www.laurenceanthony.ne<wbr \/>t\/software\/antconc\/<\/a>&gt; (free):<\/p>\n<ul id=\"s-lg-link-list-59294464\" class=\"s-lg-link-list s-lg-link-list-2\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56834492\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ngram Viewer<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56834492\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Based on Google Books content enables users to keep track of change in usage or words and terms across time. Also see the Hathi Trust Bookworm tool.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56834340\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papermachines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paper Machines<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56834340\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Plugin for Zotero. Makes topic-modeling analysis accessible to humanities researchers without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56834559\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.hathitrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hathi Trust Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56834559\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Check under &#8220;Algorithms&#8221; and\/or &#8220;Explore&#8221; tabs for different ways of conducting text analysis within 13.7 million HathiTrust volumes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-6609473\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juxtasoftware.org\/\">Juxta<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-6609473\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Juxta is an open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. Originally designed to aid scholars and editors examine the history of a text from manuscript to print versions, Juxta offers a number of possibilities for humanities computing and textual scholarship.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*\u00a0 \u00a0Python (free, but hard to learn): Python is a programming language that provides a ton of different libraries for doing Natural Language Processing, word embedding models, topic modeling, and more. Since it&#8217;s a programming language, the learning curve is much steeper. There are a lot of resources for learning Python and how to use it for writing analytics\/computational text analysis. I have some computational essays in my dissertation&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticalfantoolkit.org\/about_dissertation\/computational_essays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.criticalfantoolkit.org\/about_dissertation\/computational_essays&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616336095330000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFz51t_jE76ml-YMbpyWd7k-qcdgA\">http:\/\/www.critic<wbr \/>alfantoolkit.org\/about_dissert<wbr \/>ation\/computational_essays<\/a>&gt;, for instance!<\/p>\n<h2>Storytelling types of tools<\/h2>\n<p>Omeka<\/p>\n<p>We video<\/p>\n<p>Scalar<\/p>\n<p>Storymap js<\/p>\n<h2>Timeline tools<\/h2>\n<p>Timeline.js<\/p>\n<p>Timeglider<\/p>\n<p>Timetoast<\/p>\n<p>Chronos timeline<\/p>\n<h2>Annotation tools<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56292486\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annotationstudio.org\/\">Annotation Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56292486\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">A suite of collaborative web-based annotation tools.<\/div>\n<div class=\"s-lg-label-moreinfo\"><a id=\"s-lg-content-more-56292486\" class=\"s-lg-label-more\"><\/a>more&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56292245\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.hypothes.is\/\">Hypothes.is<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56292245\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Hypothesis is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to annotate any page on the web.<\/div>\n<div class=\"s-lg-label-moreinfo\"><a id=\"s-lg-content-more-56292245\" class=\"s-lg-label-more\"><\/a>more&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56292563\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamiapp.com\/\">Kami<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56292563\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Kami allows users to comment on texts with a variety of different annotation types.<\/div>\n<div class=\"s-lg-label-moreinfo\"><a id=\"s-lg-content-more-56292563\" class=\"s-lg-label-more\"><\/a>more&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56292751\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nb.mit.edu\/\">NotaBene<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56292751\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Annotate course material online, either for yourself or to discuss it with others.<\/div>\n<div class=\"s-lg-label-moreinfo\"><a id=\"s-lg-content-more-56292751\" class=\"s-lg-label-more\"><\/a>more&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56292165\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perusall.com\/\">Perusall<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56292165\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Instructors can upload readings, create assignments, and assign grades for students.<\/div>\n<div class=\"s-lg-label-moreinfo\"><a id=\"s-lg-content-more-56292165\" class=\"s-lg-label-more\"><\/a>more&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-56292341\" class=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/recogito.pelagios.org\/\">Recogito<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-lg-link-desc-56292341\" class=\"s-lg-link-desc\">Recogito allows users to annotate documents with comments and tags and to create linear, visual relationships.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Data Visualization<\/h2>\n<p>R-project (powerful; steep learning curve; some coding skills needed)<\/p>\n<p>Canva<\/p>\n<p>Excel<\/p>\n<p>Piktochart<\/p>\n<p>Walrus<\/p>\n<p>D3.js<\/p>\n<p>Palladio<\/p>\n<h2>Software<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/guides.nyu.edu\/QDA\/comparison<\/p>\n<p>NVivo (not free): NVivo is a software for both qualitative coding and for text analysis. It has some great functions for basic word counts, nGrams, and other things. I know Northeastern has a subscription, so check if your institution has one, too?<\/p>\n<p>QDA Miner<\/p>\n<p>Atlas.Ti<\/p>\n<p>Dedoose (online; pay by month)<\/p>\n<p>Quirkos<\/p>\n<p>Maxqda<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-870\" src=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2025\/05\/1185600_692288880800952_328140837_n-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2025\/05\/1185600_692288880800952_328140837_n-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/files\/2025\/05\/1185600_692288880800952_328140837_n.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compilation of different types of tools that can assist with analysis and display related to research. Test data mining, text encoding, text\/corpus analysis junta Voyant&lt;https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/&gt; (free): *\u00a0 \u00a0Lexos &lt;http:\/\/lexos.wheatoncollege.edu\/upload&gt; (free): *\u00a0 \u00a0Word Tree&lt;https:\/\/www.jasondavies.com\/wordtree\/&gt; (free): *\u00a0 \u00a0MALLET &lt;http:\/\/mallet.cs.umass.edu\/topics.php&gt; (free): For topic modeling! *\u00a0 \u00a0AntConc &lt;http:\/\/www.laurenceanthony.net\/software\/antconc\/&gt; (free): Ngram Viewer Based on Google Books content enables users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions\/889"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/research-methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}