Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive pertaining to Data Analysis

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.


4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Create datasets from a variety of web platforms - including Reddit, Telegram, 4chan and others - and analyze them.
 
Compare Lists
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Compare two lists of URLs for their commonalities and differences.
 
Compare Networks Over Time
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Compares Issue Crawler networks over time, and displays ranked actor lists. The over time module is best used in tandem with the Issue Crawler scheduler. The results may be plotted to line g...
 
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...
 
Language Detection
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Detects language for given URLs. The first 1000 characters on the Web page(s) are extracted, and the language of each page is detected.
 
Lippmannian Device
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
The Lippmannian device is named Walter Lippmann, and provides a coarse means of showing actor partisanship.
 
Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter an Issuecrawler XML file and this script will get out all pages from the core network and rank those by pages by inlink count.
 
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.
 
Source Code Search
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
loads a URL and searches for patterns in the page's source code
 
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)
 
Tracker Tracker
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
DMI App Tracker Tracker is a tool to detect in a set of URLs predefined fingerprints of known web tracking technologies.
 
Triangulation
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter two or more lists of URLs or other items to discover commonalities among them. Possible visualizations include a Venn Diagram.
 
Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Captures tweets and allows for multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users, search, ...)
 
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.
 
 
Topic revision: r16 - 18 Sep 2024, StijnPeeters
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