{"id":131,"date":"2018-07-09T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjpurcell.sites.grinnell.edu\/sandbox_clone\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:43:17","slug":"voyant-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/his100.sarahjpurcell.sites.grinnell.edu\/spring-2021\/tutorials\/textual-analysis\/voyant-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Textual Analysis (Voyant Tools)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial was written by Katherine Walden<\/a>, Digital Liberal Arts Specialist at Grinnell College. Tutorial instructions were co-authored by Sarah Purcell (L.F. Parker Professor of History, Grinnell College) and Papa Ampim-Darko, a student research assistant at Grinnell College.<\/p>\n

This tutorial was reviewed by Gina Donovan<\/a> (Instructional Technologist, Grinnell College).<\/p>\n

This tutorial is adapted from Doing Digital History\u2019s Voyant tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Voyant Tools<\/a> is an open-source web application developed by St\u00e9fan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell in 2003, with later contributions added by Andrew MacDonald, Cyril Briquet, Lisa Goddard, and Mark Turcato. While Voyant is one of the leading robust web-based textual analysis interfaces, it grew out of existing text analysis tools like HyperPo, Tapoware, and TACT. Voyant also offers open-source code<\/a> that can be used to deploy the program on a server. Voyant users can upload text files from their computer, link to online text sources, or scrape the text off a webpage for analysis and visualization. Unlike more advanced, programming-oriented textual analysis programs like R and R Studio, Voyant gives users access to a range statistical analysis and visualization features without requiring significant technical knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Uploading Data<\/h5>\n

1-Navigate to http:\/\/sarahjpurcell.sites.grinnell.edu\/digital_methods\/files\/VoyantCorpus.zip<\/a> in a web browser and save the “Voyant_Corpus” compressed zip folder to your Desktop.<\/p>\n

2-Open a web browser (preferably Firefox or Chrome) and navigate to the Voyant Tools homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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3-Upload the zip folder and click Reveal.<\/p>\n

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4-Once a text or corpus has been uploaded, Voyant moves into its \u2018default skin,\u2019 or primary editing environment.<\/p>\n

5-Without clicking on any of the page elements, scan the page.<\/p>\n

What do you immediately notice after uploading a text to Voyant?<\/p>\n

What stands out, or catches your attention?<\/p>\n

What types of information are contained in this page?<\/p>\n

What do you have questions about, or what is confusing and not immediately clear?<\/p>\n

Based on your initial scan, what function do you think these various components serve?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Editing in Voyant<\/h5>\n

6-In the default editing environment, Voyant displays five panels: Cirrus, Reader, Trends, Summary, and Contexts.<\/p>\n

7-Each panel is a tool, and all the panel tools interact with each other. Modifying or interacting with one tool will update the others.<\/p>\n

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8-Each panel tool offers additional display and export options, which can be accessed by placing your cursor over the ? symbol. From left to right:<\/p>\n