LibGuides: Digital Humanities: Text Analysis: Introduction to Voyant

Getting Started with Voyant

Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a free web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.
List of Voyant Tools
Voyant offers over 20 different text analysis and visualization tools as part of its platform.
Full Voyant Tools Help

Voyant Demonstration and Practice
Adapted from a presented delivered via the Faculty Development Center about using Voyant Tools.

Steps to get started with a Voyant project

Step 1: Cleaning your text

Step 2: Building a corpus

Step 3: Uploading your corpus

Step 4: Identify stopwords

Sample Corpuses

Below are sample corpuses you may use to try out Voyant. To use, first click on the link which will download a .zip folder onto your computer/device. Then navigate to https://voyant-tools.org/ and upload the .zip folder.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Full Text)
By L. Frank Baum
Federalist Papers #1-10
The federalist papers were written anonymously by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. This corpus contains the text of the first 10.
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Full Text)
H.R. 1319, also known at the COVID-19 Stimulus Package, which was signed into law on March 11, 2021.
The Great Gatsby (Full Text)
By F. Scott Fitzgerald (entered the public domain on January 1st, 2021)
Pope Urban II's Speech at Clermont, 1095 (Differing Versions)
Multiple versions of Pope Urban II's Speech which motivated the First Crusade. From https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/urban2-5vers.asp
President Barack Obama's State of the Union Addresses
Text of President Obama's State of the Union Addresses from 2010-2016.