‘Voyant Tools’

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2019/08/06/voyant-tools/ OpenMethods introduction to: 'Voyant Tools' 2019-08-06 07:31:46 Introduction: Digital humanists looking for tools in order to visualize and analyze texts can rely on 'Voyant Tools' (https://voyant-tools.org), a software package created by S.Sinclair and G.Rockwell. Online resources are available in order to learn how to use Voyant. In this post, we highlight two of them: “Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data” by Filipa Calado (GC Digital Fellows and the tutorial “Investigating texts with Voyant” by Miriam Posner. Marinella Testori Blog post Content Analysis Digital Humanities Methods Network Analysis Persons Research Activities Research Objects Software Stilistic Analysis Text Tools

Introduction by OpenMethods volunteer editor (Marinella Testori): Digital humanists looking for tools in order to visualize and analyze texts can rely on ‘Voyant Tools’. Available at https://voyant-tools.org/, the software package has been created by S.Sinclair and G.Rockwell, who are the authors also of Hermeneutica: Computer-assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (http://hermeneuti.ca/), published by MIT Press in 2016 and devoted to the presentation and discussion of the hermeneutics of textual analysis in a computer-aided context.

Online resources are available in order to learn how to use Voyant. See, for example, the following two:

“Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data” by Filipa Calado, which can be consulted on GC Digital Fellows at https://digitalfellows.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/01/using-voyant-tools-to-formulate-research-questions-for-textual-data/

and the tutorial “Investigating texts with Voyant” by Miriam Posner, which can be consulted on GitHub at https://github.com/miriamposner/voyant-workshop/blob/master/investigating-texts-with-voyant.md

The contribution by Calado offers an overview of Voyant’s features by providing a sample word research conducted on a specific text (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare), while the tutorial by Posner consists in a step-by-step guide to using Voyant from the upload of a text to its exploration.

Sources:

Miriam Posner: Investigating texts with Voyant (original date of publication: 10.04.2019)

Filipa Calado: Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data (original date of publication: 01.11.2018)

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