Text Data Mining

Beautiful Soup is a free open-source Python library designed for quick turnaround projects using HTML and XML, like screen-scraping.

MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.

NLTK is a free platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.

Nvivo is a commercial qualitative research tool that allows advanced coding, analysis, and visualization for qualitative data. Nvivo is available in the Data Lab in the Scholars Lab

OpenRefine is a tool for data cleaning and organization.

Python is a free open source and general-purpose programming language that often serves as a foundation for text analysis projects.

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. RStudio is a development interface for R featuring a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

Library scanners will output OCR for most English language documents. Results with other languages may vary. Scanners can be found in the Library's Scan Tech Studio in the Scholars Lab.

Widely used machine learning toolkit for data mining and data analysis.

Taguette is a free and open-source qualitative research tool that has basic code and retrieve functionality for text data.

Voyant can create word frequencies, concordance, word clouds, visualizations.