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Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis environment that requires no coding skills.

Overview​

Voyant allows you to upload texts and immediately see:

  • Word frequencies
  • Word clouds
  • Trends over document segments
  • Keyword context (KWIC)
  • And many more visualizations

Website​

voyant-tools.org

Key Features​

Cirrus (Word Cloud)​

Visual representation of word frequency.

Track how word usage changes across documents or document segments.

Contexts​

See keywords in their surrounding context.

Collocates​

Find words that frequently appear near your search term.

Advantages​

  • No installation — Works in any browser
  • No coding — Point-and-click interface
  • Immediate results — Upload and analyze in seconds
  • Free — Open source

Limitations​

  • Limited to smaller corpora
  • Less customizable than programmatic approaches
  • Results can be hard to export