Digital Humanities

Infogram is a great tool for graphically visualizing your data. This web-based tool has the capability to create over 30+ charts and graphs, including maps, to visualize data for research. When your project is created through the site, you can publish your visualization and/or generate an embed code to post onto a blog or website.

Tagxedo is a web-based graphic word cloud generator that creates word clouds from famous speeches, news articles, slogans, tweets, etc. This resource is particularly valuable for creating word clouds from websites, news, web searches, RSS feeds, and Twitter IDs. While this resource does not have the capability of creating word clouds from copied and pasted text, it does provide great capabilities for creating word clouds from other data.

Wordle is a web-based word cloud tool that creates word clouds from text you provide. The tool has the capability to tweak images, fonts, layouts, and color schemes that allow you to customize your Wordle for your particular project. You can print or create a PDF of your project to share your work. Wordle is a very accessible resource and is incredibly easy to use. Its a great tool for getting started with creating word clouds and for small visualization projects.

Gephi is an open graph visualization platform that supports exploration of all kinds of networks and complex systems. Gephi can be downloaded for free onto any Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X device.