- Sign up for a free account on Flourish.
- OpenRefine - a tool for helping to organize and edit tabular data at scale
- Chrome browser - required to use the WebScraper Chrome Plugin
- WebScraper Chrome Plugin - allows you to scrape data off of websites
- Topic Modeling Tool GUI that uses Mallet to create topic models
- Postman - helps you develop an API call
- Homebrew (open ’Terminal’ program and paste in the command on the website. This may also prompt you to install XCode - please do so (it may take awhile)) - this is a package manager that makes installing command-line tools easier
- Tesseract (once Homebrew is installed (which may be 5-10 mins, not includign XCode update), in Terminal, type
brew install tesseract) - this performs OCR on images of text
- Cygwin - command-line software with several tools built in
- Tesseract - this performs OCR on images of text
- A plain text editor (either Sublime Text or Atom are recommended)
- Spreadsheet software (Excel, Libre Office, anything that will open a spreadsheet)
- Python 3 (Windows: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/; Mac: Open Terminal and type
brew install python3) will be helpful in one of the exercises, but you won't miss out on much if you just watch.