Tools and Tutorials

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Accessibility

• Color Oracle
• Viz Palette (color palette)
• Color Contrast Analyzer (Google Chrome Extension)

Collections and Exhibits

• Omeka (collections/exhibits) (available through MSU Domains) 
• CollectionBuilder (collections) (requires GitHub)
• Webrecorder (web archiving)
• Wax (minimal computing version of Omeka) (requires GitHub)

Data Collection/Cleaning/Transformation

• OpenRefine (data cleaning)
  • Tutorial for OpenRefine
• Tabula (turning tables in pdfs into spreadsheets)
• oTranscribe (transcription)
• Tropy (managing image files)
• Airtable (databases without coding)
• TAGS (collecting Tweets)
• Web Scraper (extracting data from web pages)
  • Tutorial from Brandon Locke for using Web Scraper

Mapping

• (check Multi-use for more resources)
• Layers
  • Google Maps (My Maps) – login using non-MSU account
    • Tutorial from Google for using my Maps
  • Mapbox
  • QGIS (requires download)
    • High barrier to entry; meet with Amanda Tickner (MSU’s GIS librarian; atickner@msu.edu) for assistance
• Narrative
  • StoryMap JS
  • Esri StoryMap
• Prepping/etc
  • MapWarper (georectifying maps)
    • Tutorial for geogrectifying maps (in section 2 of the page)
  • Batch geocoding location information tutorial
• Helpful guide for thinking about mapping

Multi-use

• DataBasic (text analysis and networks ; aimed at beginners)
• Tableau (requires a download ; visualization, mapping, etc)
• Palladio (networks, mapping)
• Vistorian (maps, networks)
• Neatline (mapping, timelines, storytelling) (plugin for Omeka)
• Flourish (visualization, networks, mapping)Network Tutorial
• Introductory tutorial around visualization plus two tutorials for doing specific things in Flourish
• TimeMapper (narrative mapping and timeline in one) 

Networks

• (check Multi-use for more resources)
• Onodo
• GraphCommons
• Gephi (requires download)
• Cytoscape (requires download)

Text Analysis

• Voyant 
  • Brief intro slides
• Distant Reader (corpus analysis, natural language processing, named entity recognition) (requires download of results) 
• Antconc (concordance) (requires download)

Timelines

• Tiki-Toki
• Timeline JS
  • Brief intro slides

Website creation/storytelling

• Twine (text-based gaming ; choose-your-own-adventure)
• Scalar (CMS geared to non-linear multimedia storytelling, can integrate with other tools) 

Visualization

• (check Multi-use for more resources) 
• RAW Graphs
• TwoTone (data sonification)
• Explainer of chart (visualization) types

As a refresher, the following are CMSs:

• WordPress
• Omeka
• Scalar