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All analysis tools will be demonstrated; no prior knowledge of any tools will be required. The room is equipped with video input to allow sharing of your desktop on the screen.  If you discover something that you would like to share and discuss, we can easily do so.

Word Frequencies

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Voyant is a low barrier text analysis tool that delivers an interactive interface and a variety of visualizations.

  • Data: Text of your choosing.  Upload interface accepts files in the following formats: plain text, PDF that has embedded OCR, MS Word doc and docx files, URLs. Can take multiple documents to make a set.  Upload of any material will be subject to the Voyant privacy policy.
  • Analysis: Voyant environment lists every word in the document and counts for each.  Also calculates frequencies based on the total word word count of the document(s) in the uploaded set. 
  • Visualization: Interactive dashboard: word cloud, graph of frequency over document segments, tabled secondary data, source data as text.  Also has navigational aids that integrate source an secondary data with each other and with visualizations, and offers utilities for stop word control, URLs, screen capture, secondary data download, etc. 

Sample texts and URLs for analysis are listed below for experimentation, but feel free to use other source data that interests you. 

nGrams

nGrams depict the frequency of a word or word phrase and are most often depicted over publication year.  We have two nGram tools, each leveraging different source data.

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