Tools
SearchEnginesBookmarklet (ex Google Bookmarklets)
a web browser button to extract in a few clicks as CSV results from search engines such as Google, DuckDuckGo, Baidu...
harvesting
made by the médialab
2024
ipysigma
a Jupyter widget using sigma.js to render interactive networks
exploration and visualization
made by the médialab
2022
pimmi
tool to study image copying in a corpus
exploration, visualization and curation
made by the médialab
2022
xan
command line tool to efficiently process CSV files
curation and processing
made by the médialab
2022
Nansi
an online web app one can use to visualize networks easily
exploration and visualization
made by the médialab
2020
casanova
python library to process CSV files
processing
made by the médialab
2020
minet
webmining library and command line tool written in python
harvesting and processing
made by the médialab
2019
Ovide
a scholarly writing and publishing software in web and desktop versions
writing
made by the médialab
2019
Tesselle
a tool for exploring and annotating large format and high definition images
exploration and writing
made by the médialab
2019
Dicto
an application made for the annotation, analysis and publication of video and audio content
writing and curation
made by the médialab
2018
Fonio
an online collaborative scholarly writing software allowing to make rich web publications
writing
made by the médialab
2018
Ural
python library offering a variety of url-related utilities
processing
made by the médialab
2018
MiniVan
web application enabling users to publish and visually analyse networks
visualization and exploration
made by the médialab
2018
Takoyaki
web application that can be used to harmonize datasets
curation
made by the médialab
2017
Khartis
a tool to easily create thematic maps in 3 steps from data as CSV
exploration and visualization
made by the médialab
2016
Graph Recipes
a web environment to work with JavaScript on a GEXF network: compute metrics, produce images, and tinker with Graphology
processing, exploration and visualization
made by the médialab
2016
Hyphe Browser
a full web browser connected to Hyphe allowing to build, explore and categorize a web c corpus "in situ" the Navicrawler way
harvesting, curation and exploration
made by the médialab
2016
Graphology
JavaScript library implementing graphs as well as many graph theory algorithms
processing
made by the médialab
2016
Catwalk
a tool for tweets cleaning and curation for the use of social sciences
curation and exploration
made by the médialab
2015
CSV Rinse Repeat
an online tool to improve your CSV files using JavaScript code
processing, exploration and visualization
made by the médialab
2015
Manylines
web application allowing to display, spatialize and categorize a network, then to write and share an interactive story composed of specific views of the visualization
exploration, writing and visualization
made by the médialab
2015
SeeAlsology
allows to explore the semantic zone of Wikipedia pages by building a graph of the links featured in the "See also" section
harvesting and exploration
made by the médialab
2014
Sandcrawler
JavaScript library for Node.js aiming at helping developers to build complex web crawlers and scrapers
harvesting
made by the médialab
2014
Drive-In
allows you to publish a simple website from a _public_ google drive folder without coding in HTML
writing
made by the médialab
2014
ZUP
simple interface to extract textual contents from a webpage from (almost) any URL
harvesting
made by the médialab
2014
artoo.js
bookmarklet injecting JavaScript code in a web page in order to provide scraping utilities
harvesting
made by the médialab
2014
Gazouilloire
a backend tool to run massive Twitter data harvesting on the long term
harvesting
made by the médialab
2014
sigma.js
JavaScript library used to visualize network graphs in the browser
visualization
made by the médialab
2014
Hyphe
a research-driven web-crawler aimed at building, curating and categorizing a corpus of web actors and the network graph of hyperlinks connecting them
harvesting, exploration and curation
made by the médialab
2013
Table 2 Net
An online tool that allows users to create a network graph in a few clicks from a csv file
processing
made by the médialab
2013
ScienceScape
features various tools for scientometrics, such as file conversion, networks building or visualization tools for Scopus or Web of Science
exploration
made by the médialab
2013
I Want Hue
a web interface to generate and refine palettes of optimally distinct colors.
visualization and writing
made by the médialab
2013
HeatGraph
a visualization tool allowing to produce heatmaps from the density of nodes in a spatialized network
visualization
made by the médialab
2012
ANTA
a piece of software aimed at analyzing medium-size text corpora, by extracting the expressions contained in a set of texts and drawing a network of co-occurrences.
processing, exploration and visualization
made by the médialab
2011
Issue2navicrawler
a python library to transform a DMI's IssueCrawler XML file into a Navicrawler wxsf (XML) one
processing
made by the médialab
2010
pyGEXF
a Python library to handle, read and write GEXF format, the XML file formats for network graphs
processing
made by the médialab
2010
LabelStudio
an application for collaborative tagging of data empowered with machine learning algorithms
curation, processing and exploration
recommended by the médialab
2021
Doccano
a tool to visually annotate text contents (named entities, sentiment analysis, etc.)
processing and exploration
recommended by the médialab
2019
Gephi
an interactive visualization and exploration software for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs
exploration, visualization and processing
recommended by the médialab
2015
Voyager 2
a data exploration tool that blends manual and automated chart specification
exploration
recommended by the médialab
2015
Dive
a data exploration web application
exploration, writing and visualization
recommended by the médialab
2015
Palladio
an application for cleaning and explore complex, temporal and spatial data
curation, visualization and exploration
recommended by the médialab
2014
Rawgraphs
a simple and efficient tool for scaffolding complex visualizations online
visualization
recommended by the médialab
2013
Vega
a declarative language for creating and sharing data visualizations
visualization
recommended by the médialab
2013
UMap
lets one to create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site
processing, exploration and visualization
recommended by the médialab
2012
OpenRefine
A free open source desktop application for working with messy data
processing
recommended by the médialab
2010
CorTexT
The CorTexT initiative of IFRIS proposes tools to explore and analyse semantics dynamics in corpus of texts.
processing, exploration and visualization
recommended by the médialab
2008
DMI Tools
a collection of useful digital instruments for sociologists, built by the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam
harvesting, curation, processing, exploration and visualization
recommended by the médialab
2007
Navicrawler
a Firefox extension allowing to build a web corpus then export the hyperlinks network between the visited webpages
harvesting and curation
recommended by the médialab
2006
Voyant tools
a digital text reading and analysis environment
processing, visualization and exploration
recommended by the médialab
2003