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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