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CommentSpace

CommentSpace is a free, collaborative tool for analysis of comments and visualizations on a website. It uses tags and links to organize the findings and identify contributions from particular users. This tool can assist analysts in identifying evidence and establishing common ground, and can help teams in evidence-gathering and synthesis tasks.

DiscoverText

DiscoverText is a cloud-based textual analytics tool available for purchase. It is designed to collect data from sources such as social media, blogs and a variety of document formats, and generate tag clouds and reports from the resulting corpus.

Pressbooks

Pressbooks is a platform for collaboratively creating ebooks built over WordPress available as both a free service and on a subscription basis. Subscriptions are only required for users wanting to manage more than 5 books. eBooks can be generated in a variety of formats from several provided templates. Pressbooks integrates functionality for importing material from WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and assists in collaborative authoring with workflow management tools.

Timeline JS

Timeline JS is a free timeline tool that can be poplulated from either a Google spreadsheet or a JSON file, and can draw media material from a variety of sources, such as Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube and more. It has been designed to be both easy to use and easy to embed the results in another web page.

Pattern (CLiPS)

Pattern (CLiPS) is a web mining module for Python designed for computational linguistic and psycholinguistic research. It integrates tools for data retrieval from search engines, social media, web spiders and individual websites, and can accomplish text analysis, natural language processing and data visualization.

Trend Miner

Trend Miner is a tool designed to enable portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarizing of large-scale stream media. It combines elements from natural language processing, knowledge-based reasoning, machine learning, economics and political science. It is designed to access and interpret data from sources such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

NVivo

NVivo is a commercial software package for creating workspaces and corpuses. Its features include importing YouTube videos and comments, social media posts and discussions, web page and PDF capture, multiple language support and support for a wide variety of data formats such as spreadsheets, images, database tables and so on. Users can query their data in a variety of ways, annotate, cross-link and visualize connections, ideas and findings with charts, maps and models

UCINET

UCINET is a software package for analyzing network data, available for purchase and with a 90-day trial period. This tool has been in continuous development since the 1980s, and now includes the capacity to gather and analyze social network data.

Netvizz

Netvizz is a free, web-based tool for extracting datasets from Facebook. As the tool utilizes Facebook Apps, users must have a Facebook account to access it.

NetvizzToSentiStrength

NetvizzToSentiStrength is a free, web-based sentiment analysis tool for short texts, designed to work particularly with a Netvizz search of Facebook data. In addition to Netvizz data, it also accepts DMI-TCAT and CSV files.