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Tools

The Murthy Digital Studio is equipped with three Mac workstations, each with two monitors. On each machine, the following software packages are available for experimentation, learning, and project development. This space also includes a large mobile display screen with HDMI and VGA connectors and Mac adaptors.

To consult with a team member as you work with these tools, contact us at askdigital (at) duke.edu to set up an appointment. 

Qualitative Data Organization + Analysis

Devonthink DEVONThink Pro Office
  • Qualitative data organization.
  • Work individually or with others to collect and organize content (e.g., images, texts, video).
  • More informationWebsite 
evernote-icon Evernote Premium
  • Qualitative data organization.
  • Collect and organize content (e.g., images, texts, websites, emails).
  • Create new content (e.g., texts, audio recordings, images).
  • More informationWebsite 
 Dedoose Dedoose
  • Qualitative data analysis.
  • Work individually or with others to track themes and discover patterns across different types of content (e.g., images, texts, video).
  • More information: Website
 NVivo_Logo NVivo for Mac
  • Qualitative data analysis.
  • Work individually or with others to track themes and discover patterns across different types of content (e.g., images, texts, video).
  • More information: Website 
 juxta_logo Juxta
  • Text comparison and analysis.
  • Use to compare and collate variations of a single textual work.
  • More information: Website 
 malletSmall Mallet
  • Text comparison and analysis.
  • Use to apply machine-learning processes (e.g., document classification, sequence tagging, topic modeling) to a corpus of texts.
  • More information: Website 
 voyant copy Voyant
  • Text visualization and analysis.
  • Use to reveal textual patterns within a single text or across a corpus of texts.
  • More information: Website 

 

Data Management + Editing

FileMaker-Pro-icon FileMaker Pro
  • Data management.
  • Organize content, construct relationships between data, and automate repetitive tasks.
  • More information: Website 
IconOxygen70 Oxygen XML Editor
  • XML, XSLT, and XQuery development. 
  • Create and edit XML encoded files (e.g., DocBook, TEI, XHTML), query XML databases, and write XSL transforms for publishing XML data in various formats.  
  • More information: Website 
GoogleRefine OpenRefine
  • Data cleaning and preparation.
  • Clean and transform “messy data” (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed, that cannot yet be parsed or analyzed).
  • More information: Website