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Computational Tools

Computational Tools

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January 6, 2022

A collection of commonly used computational tools:

ToolLinkNote
Anacondahttps://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#download-sectionPython Environment
Jupyter Notebookhttps://jupyter.org/Python notebook
Rhttps://cloud.r-project.org/64-bit
RStudiohttps://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download3/Install R first and then install RStudio; download the free RStudio desktop
Google Colabhttps://colab.research.google.com/Online Notebook for Python and R
GitHubhttps://github.com/Online code repository
Claude Codehttps://claude.ai/Code angent for easy application development
Google AI studiohttps://ai.google.dev/studioAI code generation
Apifyhttps://apify.com/Web scraping and automation platform
Legacy tools:
| Tool | Link | Note | |——————–|———————————————————————-|———————————————————————-| | KNIME | https://www.knime.org/downloads/overview | Download the FULL version with all extensions | | OpenRefine | http://openrefine.org/download.html | Data clean | | NodeXL | https://www.smrfoundation.org/nodexl/ | Excel add-on (Windows only) | | Tableau Public | https://public.tableau.com/s/ | Data visualization (the free version of Tableau) | | Gephi | https://gephi.org/ | Network visualization | | Voyant | https://voyant-tools.org/ | Text analysis and visualization | | JSON Editor Online | http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ | Parse JSON structure | | Datawrapper | https://www.datawrapper.de/ | Visualization online (chart + map) | | reaper | https://github.com/ScriptSmith/reaper | Social media scraping GUI (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube) | | Facepager | https://github.com/strohne/Facepager | Fetch publicly available data from YouTube, Twitter, and other websites using APIs and web scraping |