Digital Research Tools & Techniques
“A simple collection of JSON grabbed from the general twitter stream, for the purposes of research, history, testing and memory. This is the “Spritzer” version, the most light and shallow of Twitter grabs. Unfortunately, we do not currently have access
Ever glance at an article and wonder how complicated it is to read? Or look at a whole heap of texts and wonder which are the most complicated? Are publications in your field of study more or less complicated to
Free tool to analyze Facebook metrics for marketing research, optimizing social media use, and understanding Click here to navigate to the Facebook Group Analyzer on GitHub. This Jupyter Notebook will download the Facebook posts on a group or fan page,
Click here to navigate to the LSI Tool download page. Generates related keywords from a corpus bundled together into topic areas. 10 keywords are generated per topic. A single text file is uploaded and each line is treated as a
Click here to navigate to the Sentiment Per Line download page. Sentiment-Per-Line Sentiment values per line in text file. Results downloaded to structured csv table. Baylor University Libraries: Implementation of VaderSentiment VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner)
Click here to navigate to the Twitter Keyword Search instruction and download page. Twitter-Keyword-Search Keyword searching across a sample of 7 days of Twitter posts. Results downloaded to structured csv table. Baylor University Libraries: Twitter Keyword Search This
Click to navigate to the Ant Software Collection Download Page This collection of freeware applications enables researchers to easily create, mine, and analyze a corpus. Most especially the linguistic functionalities, including parts of speech tagging, vocabulary level/complexity of speech analyzer,
Click to navigate to the Voyant page. Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts. This is a great tool requiring no download or installation. Provides a fantastic introduction to text mining and analysis through
Click to navigate to the Anaconda Distribution download page. The Python programming language is the tool we most often turn to for our text mining and analysis projects. Python is open source, cross-platform, easy to learn, and has a