Category: All Tools

Vibby

Vibby: Upload videos from YouTube and add comments to highlighted segments. Open it up to the public for their input. Annotated “vibs” are shareable and include analytics when you create one while logged in. FREE

YouTube

YouTube: Did you know you can add annotations to any video that you upload to YouTube? There is no collaborative feature here, but it provides an easy way to add text, including links, to your video.Most popular video sharing platform, with capabilities for live streaming and creating video channels. Also, see tutorial for how to blur faces on YouTube …

Soundcloud

Soundcloud: this online audio distribution platform enables users to record, upload, and share audio files. Users can annotate audio files by inserting comments along the audio track. Mobile app available. 30 Days FREE Trial.

Palladio

Palladio: A data visualization tool that was developed in Stanford’s Humanities and Design Lab. There is no need to create an account, and data can be uploaded within the browser. Map and graph visualizations can be exported as .svg files. There are also list and gallery views where data can be linked to outside web-based …

Filtergraph

Filtergraph: A data visualization tool that grew out of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics and the Vanderbilt Initiative for Autism, Innovation and the Workforce. There is no need to create an account, and data can be uploaded within the browser. Map and graph visualizations can be exported as .svg files. There are also list …

Tableau

Tableau: Interactive visualization examples created with Tableau Public. These can be filtered by categories (Education, Government, Science, etc), and can be downloaded as PDFs and image files. You can also create your own visualizations with the Tableau Desktop Public Edition app. 1 GB of space is free. FREE/PRO

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. …

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. …

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

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.

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, …

Dedoose

Dedoose: a cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data. Paid (subscription model).

Inkscape

Inkscape: An open source vector graphics editor comparable to Adobe Illustrator. Inkscape can be used to create anything from graphics for websites to images ready for large format printers. FREE.

Google Drawing

Google Drawing: Collaboratively draw and create graphics with everyone in the world, or just the people you invite. An example is here, where we’ve overlaid some graphics onto an image. It’s open to the public, so feel free to play! FREE

Sketchup

Sketchup: Due to its geometric nature, this software is great for architectural models. Start by drawing lines and shapes. Push and pull surfaces to turn them into 3D forms. Stretch, copy, rotate and paint to make anything you like. Easy to use, Sketchup is available in freeware and professional versions. Tutorials available on LinkedIn Learning. Free/Paid.

Wireframe.cc

Wireframe.cc: An intuitive, minimal wireframing app available in the browser. Design for different devices and annotate your work. Saving generates a URL which can be used to return to your wireframe later. FREE/PREMIUM.

OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle: A graphic creation tool for Mac OS X and iOS, OmniGraffle can be used to create all sorts of graphics, diagrams, and graphs. Includes stencils and UX kits. Free 14 day trial/Subscription.