Voyant Tools is an online platform for performing text analysis, particularly suited for analyzing and visualizing large bodies of text. It provides a variety of tools for exploring word frequency, patterns, and relationships in texts. Some of its features include:
- Word Clouds: A visual representation of word frequency.
- Trends: Tracking the occurrence of words across sections of a text or across different documents.
- Contextual Analysis: Showing the context in which specific words appear.
- Collocate Graphs: Displaying the relationships between frequently co-occurring words.
- Summary: Giving an overview of key metrics like word counts and vocabulary density.
Voyant is widely used in digital humanities research and educational settings, as it is easy to use and accessible directly from the web without the need for coding.