Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive pertaining to Information Visualization

This is an archive of tools developed by the DMI & affiliates in the past years. Note that not all tools are still available and while some are actively maintained, others are not.


Amazon Related Product Graph
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This command-line Python script allows you to enter a (set of) ASIN(s) and crawl its recommendations up til a user-specified depth.
 
Brightbeam
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Interactively capture and inspect third-party trackers encountered while browsing.
 
Bubble Lines
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Input tags and values to produce relatively sized bubbles. Output is an svg.
 
Colors For Data Scientists
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Generate and refine palettes of optimally distinct colors. (by Médialab Sciences-Po)
 
Googlescraper (Search Engine Scraper)
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Batch queries Google. Query the resonance of a particular term, or a series of terms, in a set of Websites.
 
Issue Dramaturg
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter up to 3 URLs as well as a key word. The Issuedramaturg queries Google for the key word, and shows the Pageranks of the URLs over time. The output is a graph of the Pagerank of the URLs...
 
Issue Geographer
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Geo-locates the organizations on an Issue Crawler map, using whois information, and visualizes the organizations' registered locations on a geographical map.
 
Issuecrawler
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter URLs and the Issue Crawler performs co-link analysis in one, two or three iterations, and outputs a cluster graph. The Issue Crawler also has modules for snowball crawling (up to 3 deg...
 
Lippmannian Device
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
The Lippmannian device is named Walter Lippmann, and provides a coarse means of showing actor partisanship.
 
Lippmannian Device To Gephi
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This tool allows one to visualize the output of the Lippmannian device as a network with Gephi.
 
Raw Text to Tag Cloud Engine
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Takes raw text, counts the words and returns an ordered, unordered or alphabetically ordered tagcloud.
 
Screenshot generator
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Produce screenshots for a list of URLs
 
Table to Net
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Extract a network from a table. Set a column for nodes and a column for edges. It deals with multiple items per cell. (by Médialab Sciences-Po)
 
Tag Cloud Combinator
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter two or more tag clouds and the values of each tag will be summed.
 
Tag Cloud Generator
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Input tags and values to produce a tag cloud. Output is in SVG.
 
Tag Cloud To Wordle
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This tool allows one to transform a normal tag cloud into a fancy Wordle one.
 
Wikipedia Cross-Lingual Image Analysis
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Makes the images of all language versions of a Wikipedia article comparable.
 
Wikipedia History Flow Companion
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This script allows you to specify a range of Wikipedia revisions for use with the History Flow visualization.
 
Wikipedia TOC Scraper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Scrape Table of Contents for revisions of a wikipedia page and explore the results by moving a slider to browse across chronologically ordered TOCs.
 
 
Topic revision: r16 - 18 Sep 2024, StijnPeeters
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