Data Visualization: Text Visualization

Ted Underwood’s blog post introduces computational text analysis and text mining.

Ryan Shaw’s online slides give basic information on the steps involved in text analysis. In addition to providing relevant book titles, articles and tools, Shaw also lists some online syllabi for previous courses on text analysis.

This web page features an overview of the history and different types of text analysis. It also provides a list of tools and further readings.

This is an ongoing open-source tool that helps with visualizing digital texts from various repositories, including OpenLibrary, arXiv science publications, and Social Science Research Network abstracts. Collaborative projects also feature text and subtitles from movies, and other popular media sources that will help you analyze trends in these areas of study.

Created by Mark Davies, a linguistics professor at Brigham Young University, this collection helps you access and analyze digitized text, featuring content from Wikipedia, Time magazine, Google Books, and NOW corpus (News On the Web).

Google’s Ngram Viewer lets you search for phrases within their corpus of digital texts, selecting for chosen year and language - UK English, American English, German, Russian and Spanish to name a few.

This is a curated list of digital research tools to help scholars with their projects. The tools allow scholars to annotate, clean up, share, store, theorize, translate and visualize data.

Poem Viewer is a web-based tool for visualizing poems in support of close reading.

TAPoRware is a set of text analysis tools that enables users to perform text analysis on HTML, XML and plain text files, using documents from the users' machine or on the web.

Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

WordSeer is a text analysis environment that combines visualization, information retrieval, sensemaking and natural language processing to make the contents of text navigable, accessible, and useful.

Juxta is an open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work.

This tool allows you to visualize any text as a network.