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[Voyant Tools](https://voyant-tools.org/) is a collection of analytical tools for computational text analysis (also known as _distant reading_). Distant reading helps you get high-level insights into large text corpora but can also encourage you to understand a small collection of texts in a new way. The focus is on finding patterns: Which words are most frequent? Which words co-occur throughout the text? How does the vocabulary used change in the course of a narrative? [Voyant Tools](https://voyant-tools.org/) is a collection of analytical tools for computational text analysis (also known as _distant reading_). Distant reading helps you get high-level insights into large text corpora but can also encourage you to understand a small collection of texts in a new way. The focus is on finding patterns: Which words are most frequent? Which words co-occur throughout the text? How does the vocabulary used change in the course of a narrative?
In the BA DS programme, the students learn to perform basic text analysis with R, but not all students are confident using R independently for their theses. Here, Voyant Tools can offer students with fewer computational skills the opportunity to get high-level insights into a text corpus exclusively via a graphic user interface. Voyant Tools is not officially taught in the BA DS programme and should, therefore, only be used in agreement with your thesis supervisor.
Monika Barget created the following slides for teaching essential text analysis / distant reading with Voyant Tools to MA students in the humanities and social sciences: Monika Barget created the following slides for teaching essential text analysis / distant reading with Voyant Tools to MA students in the humanities and social sciences:
[Introduction to text analysis with Voyant Tools](https://zenodo.org/record/7348456#.Y4X0SX3MJPZ) [Introduction to text analysis with Voyant Tools](https://zenodo.org/record/7348456#.Y4X0SX3MJPZ)
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