Native American Studies: DH Tools

An easy to use web text analysis tool. Voyant is free and allows users to upload or paste text. The program will automatically determine word frequencies and colocates and display them graphically.

NLTK is a platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.

OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Designed by Google which allows a user to plot the use of words over time in approx. 5 million books.
You can select sets of curated works: "American English," "British English," "English," "Chinese (simplified)," "English Fiction," "French," "German," "Hebrew," "Russian," and "Spanish."

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features including E-book format conversion.

A collection of text mining tools accompanied by sets of text (an online book) describing the how’s and why’s of text mining in modern scholarship

The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval.
Tool categories include analysis, annotating, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and web development among many others.

This color wheel tool will help you choose color palettes for visualizations or other uses.

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. These simple tools make it easy to work with data in fun ways, so you can learn how to find great stories to tell.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to your own desktop to use as you wish.

Tableau Public is a free data storytelling application. Create and share interactive charts and graphs, maps, live dashboards and fun applications in minutes, then publish anywhere on the web.

ArcGIS Explorer Desktop is a free GIS viewer that gives you an easy way to explore, visualize, and share GIS information. ArcGIS Explorer, you can access ready-to-use ArcGIS Online basemaps and layers, fuse local data with map services to create custom maps, add photos, reports, videos, and other information to your maps, as well as perform spatial analysis (e.g., visibility, modeling, proximity search).

Open Context publishes data you can analyse, media you can reuse, and field notes you can explore. All content published by Open Context carries Creative Commons copyright licenses, which means you have explicit legal permission to reuse and adapt this content in your own works, as long as you provide appropriate citations to Open Context contributors.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables users to build visually rich, interactive timelines. It can pull in media from a variety of sources and has built-in support for Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more. Harvests data from Google Spreadsheets.

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps make your data dynamic using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to Document Object Model manipulation.

Service for work with Google Charts API. The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

The tools included in the library provide access to data through interactive mapping, data reporting, and visualization tools.

Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of Apps are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.

ImageJ is a public domain, Java-based image processing program that can display, edit, analyze, process, save, and read many image formats including TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS, as well as raw formats. It also can measure distances and angles, create density histograms and line profile plots among many other features.

ImagePlot is a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size. It is implemented as a macro which works with the open source image processing program ImageJ.

Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity also can do audio spectrum analysis using the Fourier transform algorithm.

WordPress is a free and open source popular blogging tool and a content management system.

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.

The free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage.