Voyant Orientation

Welcome to Voyant

This orientation to Voyant was prepared for a "Train the Trainers Hackathon" organized by the African DH Lab. This is an outline of what Geoffrey Rockwell will present.

Welcome to Voyant

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You can try Voyant here

Demonstration of Voyant

1. Entry Screen
   1. Different ways to load a text or a corpus
   2. Different language skins
   3. Opening Shakespeare
2. Overview of Corpus View
   1. Panels and Tools
   2. Resizing the different panels
   3. Loose concatenation of tools
   4. Summary and Documents Tool
3. Showing Cirrus Tool
   1. Exporting a tab for a tool
   2. What do the graphical features mean
   3. Controls
   4. Options
   5. Stopwords
4. Showing Terms Tool
   1. Changing columns
   2. Peakedness
   3. Showing the Options and Comparison Corpus
5. Trends Tool
   1. Using Terms to control Trends
   2. Using the Search Field
   3. Looking at Contexts
6. Scatterplot Tool
   1. Playing with PCA
7. Topic Modeling Tool
   1. Exploring a text and developing hypotheses
8. TF-IDF
   1. Documents and Document Terms
9. Exporting from Terms
   1. Exporting a graphic
   2. Exporting data
   3. Export to Spyral
10. Brief intro to Spyral
11. Questions