Events is an R package for manipulating event data of the kind generated by KEDS/Tabari.
| At the R prompt type: install.packages("events") |
The development version is on Github.
Suggested citation: Lowe W. (2012) 'events: Store and manipulate event data'. R package version 0.5, URL http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=events
Austin is an R package for doing things with words. Right now it allows you to scale texts in the style of Wordscores and Wordfish.
| At the R prompt type: install.packages("austin", repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org") |
If the server responds with package 'austin' is not available you probably just have an different version of R than the server. But that doesn't matter. Just add type='source' after the repository specification and try again.
We'll be off r-forge in a few weeks, but until then
Suggested citation: Lowe W. (2011) 'austin: Do things with words'. R package version 0.1, URL https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/austin/
A cross-platform multilingual content analysis program. To learn more about the Yoshikoder, go to the Yoshikoder homepage.
If you find yourself needing to run large content analyses but don't want the overhead of the rest of the Yoshikoder, you might want to try the new version of JFreq below. This will run a Yoshikoder dictionary over any number of text documents directly.
| Download the latest version from sourceforge |
Suggested citation: Lowe W. (2009) 'Yoshikoder: Cross platform multilingual content analysis software'. Java software version 0.6.3, URL http://www.yoshikoder.org
JFreq counts words, quickly. If you have a lot of documents that need to be preprocessed and turned into a word frequency matrix in a hurry without filling up your disk, this might be the software for you.
You can read more about it on the JFreq web page. Or just download the latest graphical version using the link below
| Download the latest version of JFreq from Sourceforge |
Suggested citation: Lowe W. (2011) 'JFreq: Count words, quickly'. Java software version 0.5.4, URL http://www.williamlowe.net/software/jfreq/
A utility that tries to extract the text from documents in various formats (HTML, Word, PDF, Powerpoint, Excel) and save it as UTF-8 encoded text for subsequent content analysis.
This is a thin wrapper around the marvelous Apache POI, PDFBox, and Tag Soup libraries. That's why it's so big (and also why it works).
| Mac OSX: | YKConverter-0.4.0.0.dmg | |
| MS Windows: | YKConverter-0.4.0.0.exe | |
| Any OS: | YKConverter-0.4.0.0.jar |
Suggested citation: Lowe W. (2010) 'YKConverter'. Java software version 0.4, URL http://www.williamlowe.net/software
VBPro is Mark Miller's classic free content analysis software. I am simply hosting the latest version and cannot answer questions about it. Please address questions to Mark: mmarkmiller at mac.com.
| MS Windows: vbpro.zip |
A brief demonstation of how easy it is to do basic content analysis in python. Not really software but not really a tutorial either. Perhaps it will be useful or inspiring to someone.