Lexos is a great resource for visualizing large text sets through a web-based platform. The site has capabilities to upload multiple files, prepare, visualize, and analyze your data. The visualization tools encompassed in this tool include word clouds, multi-cloud, bubbleviz, and rolling window graph. The analysis tools included are statistical analysis, clustering, similarity query, and topword.
Textalyser is an online text analysis tool that generates statistics about your text. This analysis tool provides instant results for analyzing word groups, keyword density, the prominence of word or expression, and word count.
Voyant is a web-based reading and analysis tool for digital texts. The tool allows you to type in multiple URLs, paste in full text, or upload your own files for analysis. The site is a collaborative project by Stefan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell specifically built for digital humanities projects. The site also provides helpful instruction guides for getting started and additional information about other Voyant tools.
Infogram is a great tool for graphically visualizing your data. This web-based tool has the capability to create over 30+ charts and graphs, including maps, to visualize data for research. When your project is created through the site, you can publish your visualization and/or generate an embed code to post onto a blog or website.
Tagxedo is a web-based graphic word cloud generator that creates word clouds from famous speeches, news articles, slogans, tweets, etc. This resource is particularly valuable for creating word clouds from websites, news, web searches, RSS feeds, and Twitter IDs. While this resource does not have the capability of creating word clouds from copied and pasted text, it does provide great capabilities for creating word clouds from other data.
Wordle is a web-based word cloud tool that creates word clouds from text you provide. The tool has the capability to tweak images, fonts, layouts, and color schemes that allow you to customize your Wordle for your particular project. You can print or create a PDF of your project to share your work. Wordle is a very accessible resource and is incredibly easy to use. Its a great tool for getting started with creating word clouds and for small visualization projects.
Special thanks to the librarians at the University of Illinois for this LibGuide.
