Mobile text analysis with Textal
Channel: National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Date: 28/06/2012

Researchers from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the University College London have developed a text analysis iPhone app called Textal. 

The term text analytics describes a set of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques that model and structure the information content of textual sources for business intelligence, exploratory data analysis, research, or investigation. Textal app  allows you to create wordclouds from your favourite text, website, tweet stream, or document. Textal then allows you to interact with the wordcloud, to drill down further and explore the statistics and the relationships between words in the text. 

Textal project is part of the NCRM and UCL Digital Humanities programmes, and you can find more info in http://www.textal.org/

Filming and editing by João Retorta. Music by Sérgio Faria.

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