Software
All of my software is designed to work on Linux, Mac, and Windows. If you find any of my software helpful in your research, I just ask that you please cite this webpage. Thank you!
Topic Clustering Toolkit
This toolkit allows for unsupervised structuring of unstructured qualitative data by topic. The software will determine clusters of abstract topics in your corpus based on some keywords of interest. The package contains a Docker Compose file which automatically creates and configures your working environment by combining Apache Solr, Carrot2 Workbench, and some scripts I wrote to facilitate ease of use. Requires some minimal setup, but setup and usage instructions are fully documented.
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Modular Digital Methodologies Toolkit
Note: It's taking longer than I anticipated to create builds for Windows and Mac. I'm running into some issues getting all the project dependencies (e.g., Tesseract) bundled into one executable. If you are familiar with Pyinstaller and could give me some pointers, please get in touch! Otherwise, please check back soon for a build. I'm trying to finish up writing my thesis at the moment so this may take a while.
Beta release available! The Modular Digital Methodologies Toolkit (MDMT) is a comprehensive desktop application designed to streamline digital humanities research and text analysis. It brings together essential tools for researchers in one unified interface, including optical character recognition for converting scanned documents to searchable text, audio transcription, language translation, named entity recognition, relationship extraction, co-word analysis, and an AI-powered retrieval-augmented generation chatbot (think an AI assistant that only draws from documents you provide). MDMT eliminates the need for multiple specialized applications by providing an accessible, integrated environment that transforms how researchers interact with their document collections, saving time and revealing deeper insights through powerful visualizations and analysis techniques.
If you would like to keep up with the development progress, make your own (unsupported) build, or fork this software for your own purposes, you can view the software repository here.
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Windows version 0.9.1 (coming soon)
Mac version 0.9.1 (coming soon)