Data Analysis
- Tableau Public – A free data visualization software. It allows users to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web.
- Orange – Open source machine learning and data visualization. Build data analysis workflows visually, with a large, diverse toolbox.
Gephi – Open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs.
Mapping
- StoryMapJS – StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.
- Padlet – Interactive teaching tools, map, timeline and more.
- QGIS – A cross-platform free and open source desktop geographic information systems (GIS) application that provides data viewing, editing, and analysis capabilities.
Neatline – A suite of add-on tools for Omeka, Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines.
Text Analysis
- Google Books NGram Viewer – Analyzes historical word occurrence, usage and changes over time and allows users to download data for more intensive research
- Voyant-tools.org – Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
- Juxta – Juxta is a cross-platform tool for collating, comparing, and analyzing any kind or number of textual objects.
Timelines
- TimelineJS – TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.
- Tiki Toki – Create beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web.
Website Building
- WordPress – A free and open source blogging tool and content management system, whose flexibility as a digital humanities tool stems from its extensive library of plugins.
- Drupal – Drupal is a free, open source software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization.
- Bootstrap – lightweight site building framework.
- Omeka – A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.
- Scalar – A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.