LibGuides: Textual Data & Analytics: Tools

Tools for Textual Analysis

Gale Digital Scholar Lab This link opens in a new window
Provides a suite of Digital Humanities tools to search, format, and analyze texts drawn from Gale primary-source databases in the libraries' collection. A variety of data visualization options is included.

HathiTrust Research Center Analytics
Research portal for working with textual data drawn from HathiTrust Digital Library. You can log in using GC username and password.
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HTRC Analytics offers multiple paths to working with their data: pre-packaged algorithms for popular techniques such as topic modeling and named entity recognition; programmatic access to the corpus as a data feature set; and data capsules that allow the user to work with in-copyright texts. Tutorials: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/All+HTRC+Tutorials
Constellate
Constellate is a web-based text analytics tool that draws on data from JSTOR, as well as Chronicling America, DocSouth, Reveal Digital, Portico, and the South Asian Open Archive. Log in is free and does not require an institutional subscription.
Voyant
A web-based visualization and analysis environment for digital texts.
AntConc
Open source tool for word frequency and concordancing. Approved College software.

Text Analysis with R by Matthew L. Jockers; Rosamond Thalken
ISBN: 9783030396428
Publication Date: 2020-03-31
R is a programming language used for statistical analysis. This book provides a start-from-scratch introduction to using packages designed to manipulate and analyze text.

Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
A practical introduction to NLTK. It includes basics of setting up a Python environment.