Voyant provides over 20 different tools you can use to analyze your text(s). This page will cover some popular ones, however, the full list can be accessed below.
Bubblelines
Cirrus
Contexts
Phrases
Summary
Terms
Note: Using the Document Terms tool in conjunction with the Documents tool will allow you see word counts for a specific document.
Trends
Note: In settings you can change "relative frequencies" to "raw frequencies" which will give an exact word count of the term per document.
Below is a list of various text analysis activities and the corresponding tool(s) that can be used.
| Text Analysis Activity | Tool |
|---|---|
| Word count | Terms; Document Terms |
| Create a word cloud | Cirrus |
| Compare the frequency of terms across multiple documents/sections | Trends |
| Determine document length | Summary |
| Determine vocabulary density of a document (# of unique words/# of words) | Summary |
| Average word count per sentence | Summary |
| Determine words distinctive to a specific document in the context of a full corpus | Summary |
| View word usage in varying contexts | Contexts |
| Determine the most used phrases in a document/corpus | Phrases |
| Visual representation of term frequency/repetition in a corpus | Bubblelines |
This list will be updated as additional popular text analysis activities are identified.
