Looking to use digital tools to expand and present your research but don’t know where to start? Below is a beginner’s list of some popular digital tools to explore.
Feel free to reach out to the Archives staff for inquiries about potential access to software through the Library.
Content and Database Management
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Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories, telling the histories of their local communities. | |
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WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app. |
Data Organization
| ACS Research Data Center | A data packaging tool to assist authors in zipping their FID files, acquisition data, and processing parameters along with other appropriate FAIR metadata such as a SMILES or InChI for submission. |
| DMPTool | Data management planning. |
| Project Jupyter | An open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. |
| OpenRefine | Working with messy data. |
GIS (Geographic Information System) Mapping
| ESRI ArcGIS Online | A browser-based version of professional GIS platform |
| QGIS | Create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD (Android coming soon). |
Story Mapping and Timelines
| Neatline | Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images and timelines. |
| StoryMapJS | Easily create story maps in your browser. |
| TimelineJS | Create digital chronologies. |
| MapBox | Precise location data and powerful developer tools to change the way you navigate the world. |
Text Analysis
| NodeXL | NodeXL Basic is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 that makes it easy to explore Network Graphs. |
| TaPoR | TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval. |
| Voyant Tools | Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public. |
3D Modeling and Virtual Reality
Visualization Tools
| Awesome Table | Display Spreadsheet Data in beautiful and functional views. Awesome Table lets you display the content of a Google Sheet into various types of views. | |
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| Google Charts | Google chart tools are powerful, simple to use, and free. | |
| R | R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. | |
| RAW Graphs | RAW Graphs is an open source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone. | |
| Tableau | Tableau software programs are transforming the way people use data to solve problems. They make analyzing data fast and easy. |