~ Ngram Viewer [web based, text analysis, Google Books]:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/
When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., “British English”, “English Fiction”, “French”) over the selected years.
~ Voyant Tools [web based, text analysis, XML or plain text]:
http://voyant-tools.org/
Voyant is a web-based text analysis environment. It is designed to be user-friendly, flexible and powerful. Voyeur is part of the Hermeneuti.ca, a collaborative project to develop and theorize text analysis tools and text analysis rhetoric.
~ Wordle [web based, text analysis, plain text]:
http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Ten additional Word Cloud generators, including Tagexdo and ABC Ya, are listed here.
~ Gapminder World [web based, data visualization]:
http://www.gapminder.org/world/
Gapminder World is a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions.
Hans Rosling speaks about Gapminder on Ted. Source.
~ IBM ManyEyes [web based, text analysis, numeric or textual data]:
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
ManyEyes is a web-based suite of applications from IBM. The site allows users to upload data or use existing data and then produce graphic representations for others to view and comment upon.
~ Word Tree: http://www.jasondavies.com/wordtree/
A word tree is a graphical version of the traditional “keyword-in-context” method, and enables rapid querying and exploration of bodies of text.
~ Mandala* [prototype, download, text analysis, XML or plain text]:
http://mandala.humviz.org/
The Mandala Browser is a prototypical rich-prospect browsing interface that allows users to explore a data set using multiple criteria. Data may be uploaded with or without XML markup.
~ Online Tools for Literary Analysis: PDF
This PDF includes a description of several visualization applications as well as instructions in regards to how to use them.
~ PlotVis* [prototype, download, text analysis, XML files only]:
https://blogs.ubc.ca/plotviz/
PlotVis is a 3D visualization system built using the Unity game engine that allows researchers to load an XML-encoded story, select elements of interest, then manipulate the resulting display by yawing, rotating, zooming, panning, and so on.
mac:
http://rodriguez-arenas.info/projects/plotvis/files/plotvis-mac-03.12a.zip
windows:
http://rodriguez-arenas.info/projects/plotvis/files/plotvis-windows-03.12a.zip
~ Streamgraph: http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ex/stream.html
A streamgraph, or stream graph, is a type of stacked area graph which is displaced around a central axis, resulting in a flowing, organic shape.
~ Nineteen [web based, xlsx files only]:
http://data-dev.pollari.org/dataviz.wsgi/
Nineteen is designed to allow quick visually-assisted explorations of large qualitative/quantitative datasets. The data must be in Excel spreadsheet form. The project team notes, “Nineteen takes its name from Brodmann area 19, a region of the brain responsible for the detection of patterns, sustained attention to color and shape, visual priming, spatial working memory and inferential reasoning, among other things.”
~ SET* (Simulated Environment for Theatre) [prototype, download, XML-encoded theatre texts]:
http://humviz.org/set/
The Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET) is a 3D environment for reading, exploring, and directing plays. Designed and developed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, SET uses the Unity game engine to allow users to both author and playback digital theatrical productions.
~ TextArc [web based, text analysis, plain text from Project Gutenberg]:
http://www.textarc.org/
A TextArc is a visual represention of a text —- the entire text (twice!) — on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary, it uses the viewer’s eye to help uncover meaning.
* Prototypical rich-prospect browser projects in which I am currently involved.