Qualitative Data Analysis: Voyant

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• New York Times, October 30, 2017 Reading By the Numbers
• Chronicle of Higher Education, April 26, 2016, Voyant
• Washington Post, May 27, 2016 Here's how text analysis is transforming social-sceince research

Whitney Davis, NYU MA '18 _Experimental Humanities

Voyant is a web-based text analysis tool designed to "facilitate reading and interpretive practices [...]"

With Voyant, you can upload or paste in a corpus of text and get some visualizations and analyses right in your browser. After uploading your corpus, you have 5 immediate panes:

1. Cirrus (word cloud)
2. Reader (displays your text)
3. Trends (frequency of terms throughout text)
4. Summary (summary statistics)
5. Contexts (keywords with surrounding text)

To install Voyant on your own laptop or server, you first need to install the Java Development Kit: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk9-downloads-3848520.html

After that, follow these instructions: http://docs.voyant-tools.org/resources/run-your-own/voyant-server/ and make sure you find the latest version from Voyant's GitHub: https://github.com/sgsinclair/VoyantServer