Story Maps: Story Maps is an application which allows users to create map based narratives without coding. The platform also allows for crowd-sourced maps and uploading of images. Paid.
Data Visualization
Map Warper
Map Warper: an open source map warping/geo rectifying service. Find maps and other imagery, organized by tags, upload your own, and correct them against a real map. Also check NYPL’s Map Warper database, and how to integrate it with CartoDB.
Mapbox
Mapbox: allows you to edit map styles, add data, and save your project. Once saved, you can share and embed your Mapbox project and download your data as a GeoJSON or KML file. A starter plan gets 100MB of data storage. FREE/PRO.
Clio
Clio: a website and mobile app that uses GPS to locate a user’s location and guide them to historical and cultural sites around them. Each entry contains information such as links to relevant books and articles, sources, and media files. FREE.
Dedoose
Dedoose: a cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data. Paid (subscription model).
Voyant
Voyant: a browser-based interface that analyzes any imported text and generates collocates and line graphs, word clouds, most frequent words by section, etc. No account or sign-up needed. Voyant is “designed to make it easy for you to work with your own text or collection of texts in a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, RTF, and MS Word.” FREE.
Gephi
Gephi: Gephi is an open-source tool for data visualization which runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Described as “Photoshop for graphs”, Gephi is a tool for exploratory data analysis which allows the user to interact with and manipulate the structures, shapes, and colors of the representation to intuitively look for patterns. FREE.
Plotly
Plotly: an online data visualization suite, Plotly provides online graphing, analytics, and stats tools for individuals and for groups. A NYU instance of Plotly is available at graph.nyu.edu, but is currently only accessible at certain NYU buildings. FREE
Fulcrum
Fulcrum: Fulcrum is a digital data collection platform that allows you to create custom forms and mobile apps for conducting research. Customized surveys can be deployed that emphasize capturing data for field research projects. Students can then create and analyze their own geospatial data. Maps also include overlay support for images and other GIS data. PAID
Raw
Raw: Raw is a web app that works with tabular data to create visualizations that you can then export. Upload your data in RAW by dropping a plain text file or by copying and pasting your data from a spreadsheet. RAW offers many kinds of charts, including circular dendrograms, cluster forced layouts, and scatter plots. FREE