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Organizational
- Dropbox - Syncronized File Organizer and Updater - serves well as back up.
- Evernote - Install on your browser, clip articles, take notes, save to evernote, access anywhere
- Zotero - Citation Manager, Database, and other - works well with a number of other products. See here for a presentation by our librarians.
Web Education
- W3 Schools - for learning the basics about websites, html, css, javascript and other languages.
- Google It. Seriously. If you don't understand something "Techy," google the word and figure out what it is.
Textual Analysis
- Monk Project
- Voyeur Tools and HyperPo
- Text Editors: Notepad++ for Windows, TextWrangler (free) or BBedit($) for mac
- Wordle!
Visualization
- NodeXL - Network visualization using Excel
- Many Eyes - Intuitive site with many ways to visualize both textual and numerical data
- Google Charts
Mapping
- Georeferencer
- Hypercities (A project more than a tool, but excellent for thinking about possibilities)
- Our own apps (beta versions) - historical map and aerial photos
Timelines
- MIT's Simile Timeline - part of excellent project (somewhat ingested by google), using Exhibit as well
- Brian Coxall's tutorial on using Google Docs with Simile Timeline
- Comparison List of all the others.
- Wikileaks Timeline using Dipity
People
- Stefan Sinclair
- Dan Cohen
- Follow them and others on Twitter! (that's where all the Digitial Humanists seem to hang out.)
More about Digital Humanities (Projects, etc.)
- Digital Humanities Questions and Answers
- A Companion to Digital Humanities - a free e-book
- Digital Humanities Now "a real-time, crowdsourced publication"
More about Visualization and DataJournalism
- A Video Report on Data Visualization as a Storytelling Medium
- Data Journalism How To Guide
- Information Visualization Blog - infromation aesthetics
- Information Visualization Blog - Flowing Data
- Infovis Wiki
(A Much bigger list like this - Digital Research Tools Wiki)