General Resources
- Mass Mine (social media data mining)
- Digital Research Tools (DiRT) (aggregation of numerous digital tools)
- Scalar (interactive, media-rich projects)
- Resources for digital publication (via Doug Eyman!)
- Platforms for Civic Participation
- Learning Git
- Lynda (tutorials; free to UIUC students)
- Media Commons (for UIUC students)
- Document the Now (DocNow is a tool and a community developed around supporting the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content)
- Social media macroscope (suite of user friendly resources for social media analysis)
- Corpus Analysis with Antconc
R resources
- R studio
- Tidyverse
- Text mining with R
- R graphics with ggplot
- Network analysis with R
- Stemming words
- Sentiment analysis with R
Python
- Download Python
- Self guided study plan with Elizabeth Wickes (this is partly how I learned!
- Python for everyone
- Python standard library
- Automate the boring stuff
- Sentiment analysis
- Deep learning
- Natural language processing with Python
Composing with Media
- Sway (interactive reports, presentation, and storytelling)
- Kaltura (video production)
- Media Site (creating, managing, and curating video)
- Open Broadcast Software (free screen-capture)
- Camstudio (free screen-capture)
- Camtasia (paid screen-capture)
- Screencast-O-Matic (free screen-capture for up to 15 minutes)
- Audacity (free audio recording software)
- Pikochart (infographic maker)
- Sparkol (make whiteboard explainer videos)
- Twine (interactive storytelling)
- Hootsuite (social media manager)
- Graphiq (visualizations of publicly available data)
Web Development
- Basic HTML and CSS coding (via Quinn Warnick!)
- TextWrangler (Mac)
- Komodo Edit (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- Atom (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- Notepad++ (Windows)
- Brackets (Mac)
- Code Academy
- Crash Course on HTML and CSS
- Online Programming and Technology Courses
- GitHub Pages (building websites with Git)
- Shiffman’s Learning Processing
Topic Modeling
- Gensim (for Python)
- Topic modeling without code (GUI build on top of Mallet)
- Introduction to LDA
- Topic modeling made simple enough (Ted Underwood)
- Probabilistic topic models (Blei)
Design
- Writing and Design Lab at Rutgers
- Interaction Design Resources
- Interaction Design Foundation
- Vectr (free online vector graphics editor)
Interface Mockup
Analytics
- Google Analytics (standard analytics)
- CrazyEgg (for visualizing user behavior on websites)
- Mouseflow (for visualizing user behavior and heatmaps of user behavior)
- IOGraphica (turn your own mouse movements into artwork)
Data Visualization
- DataViz Tools: a curated guide to the best tools, resources and technologies for data visualization
- Voyant Tools
- Batch Geo
- Floating Sheep (maps)
- Gephi (open source graph visualization)
- Google Fusion Tables
- Data Basics
- Rapid Miner
- Tableau
- 38 resources for visualization
- Free data sets for play
Images and Media
- Internet Archive (books, music, software, etc)
- Nik Collection
- Unsplash (public domain for pictures)
- Open Culture (Free cultural and educational media)
- Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
- Historical GIFs
- DOCUMERICA Project by the Environmental Protection Agency
- Free NASA images
Sound and Music
- SoundTrap (collaborative audio production)
- ccMixter (music and connect to musicians)
- Jamendo (free music downloads)
- Macaulay Library of Sound (free collection of wildlife audio)
- Musopen (royalty free music)
- Sound Effects
- Sound of Picture (instrumental music)
- Table Top Audio
- 25,000 digitized records
Working as a Team
- Slack (an app for team communication)
- Redbooth (online project management software)
- Google Docs
- Effective Group Work Strategies for the College Classroom
- Using Group Work and Team Work
Research & Document Management
Free Textbooks For Writing, Rhetoric, and Research