[what-is] Wordsift Web-based Vocabulary Tool?

 

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WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. The creator especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. They want WordSift to be a useful tool, but they also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. They would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!

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https://wordsift.org/

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[what-is] Voyant Text Reading and Analysis Tool?

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Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.

What you can do with Voyant:

Use it to learn how computers-assisted analysis works. Check out our examples that show you how to do real academic tasks with Voyant.

Use it to study texts that you find on the web or texts that you have carefully edited and have on your computer.

Use it to add functionality to your online collections, journals, blogs or web sites so others can see through your texts with analytical tools.

Use it to add interactive evidence to your essays that you publish online. Add interactive panels right into your research essays (if they can be published online) so your readers can recapitulate your results.

Use it to develop your own tools using their functionality and code.

Voyant’s tagline is “see through your text.” Computer-based text analysis is a helpful supplement to close reading: for example, it can provide quantitative confirmation of patterns that you notice in a text, allow you to quickly locate interesting words or phrases within a large corpus, and help to contextualize trends in word usage. Using a tool like Voyant at the beginning of a project may also help you to find interesting trends in a text that you’d like to research further.

References:

https://voyant-tools.org/docs/#!/guide/about

https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/DS/Resources/Voyant

https://blogs.reed.edu/ed-tech/2017/03/text-analysis-using-voyant-tools/

https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/text-mining/voyant

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Google Scholar Alternatives

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By far, Google Scholar is the most frequently used academic search engine. However, it is not the only one. There are two alternatives to Google Scholar:

1) ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net

2) Semantic Scholar. https://www.semanticscholar.org

3) Microsoft Academic. https://academic.microsoft.com

4) Refseek. https://www.refseek.com

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[how-to] Copy Google Scholar Search Results - Easy, Fast, Automated

 

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STEPS:

1) Install DataMiner Scraper Chrome Extension from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-scraper-easy-web-scr/nndknepjnldbdbepjfgmncbggmopgden .

2) Check that DataMiner icon appears on your Chrome Browser Extension toolbar.

3) Browse Google Scholar Search Page e.g. https://scholar.google.com.my/scholar?q=microblog

4) Start Scraping.

4.1) Visit the Google Scholar site.

4.2) Click DataMiner icon.

4.3) Assuming that this is your first time running DataMiner, search for a Public Recipe for Google Scholar (a recipe is a ready-made formula to scrap from a specific page ie Google Scholar)

4.4) Pick one of the available Recipe.

4.5) Click Run button.

4.6) You will get a result like the following.

Overview

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Compatible with your device

Data Scraper extracts data out of HTML web pages and imports it into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

DataMiner Scraper is a data extraction tool that lets you scrape any HTML web page. You can extract tables and lists from any page and upload them to Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel. With Scraper you can export web pages into XLS, CSV, XLSX or TSV files (.xls .csv .xlsx .tsv) 

You can use Dataminer Scraper for FREE in our starter subscription plan. You will get 500 free page scrape credits per month. This way you can see how Scraper works and what you can export with no risk. Beyond our free plan, we have paid plans for more scraping features. 

Using one of the thousands scraping recipes, you can convert most of the popular websites to csv with just one click. The recipes are user generated and shared for others to use. We have over 50,000 recipes for more than 10,000 top websites in the world. Dataminer Scraper is not your average scraping tool, no other scrape tool has such a collection of recipes!

Use Dataminer Scraper with an SEO tool, CRM recruiter systems to make the most of any page scraping scenario. Scraper works with any recruiter tool, sales leads management tool or email marketing campaign. Screen scraping and data downloading has never been easier. No need to outsource your sourcing, converting and crawling. You can scrape quickly and easily with Dataminer Scraper.

Examples of the type of data our 80,000 users have been able to scrap using Dataminer Scarper:

* Search results from search engines.

* Extract emails and ID from social media profiles.

* Get price and product information from ecommerce sites.

* Get email and addresses and phone numbers from website directories.

* Get social network connections and friends.

* Get contact info from professional social profiles.

* Get sentiment info by analyzing tweets.

* Scrape reviews and ratings 

* Analyze posts for likes, comments, connection and contacts

* Use well formatted csv files to upload data and import into to ecommerce sites.

* Automatically fill forms on registration sites.

WHO LOVES DATAMINER SCRAPER?

Are you a recruiter that spends hours scouring leads sites like Linkedin, Salesforce, and Sales Navigator for potential candidates? A sales rep sourcing leads from Data.com and Salesnavigator? Or an Amazon retail seller fighting to understand your reviews and Amazon competition. How about small a business owner who wants to be free from manually tracking potential competition on yelp, yellow pages, ebay or manta? Are you a social media manager with your head deep in Excel Spreadsheet and Google search results  trying to reconcile social media friends list with linkedin connections or maybe your are a marketing manager struggling with leadgen email marketing campaigns or with importing or exporting email lists.

Data Miner is for you:

* Sales people looking for leads

* Leadgen companies

* Amazon distributers 

* Amazon retail sellers

* Recruiters looking for top candidates

* Job searches looking for the best jobs in jobs databases

* Small business owners trying to manage ratings and reviews. 

* Data science / scientists wanting more clean data

* Marketing professionals analyzing social media sites

* Students learning data science and skrap and mining

* Amazon customers

* People who tried using import.io, email hunter, rapportive

* Growth hackers looking for ways to collect and analyze data

* Social media managers organizing friends list and email contacts

ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF DATAMINER SCRAPER:

* Automated crawling of paginated websites.

* Scrape single page or multi page crawl and scrapeing.

* Automatic navigation to next page.

* Extract emails with RegEx (regular expressions)

* Download image scraping

* Download completed pages complete with images scraping

* International language support with UTF-8

* Form filling using xls data and scraping

HOW DOES ThIS SCRAPER WORK?

Dataminer Scraper uses Xpath, JQuery and CSS Selector to identify the information in the HTML web page. Then it scrapes that information and presents it to you in form of a table which you can save as a CSV or XLS file and open it in spreadsheets. Fill form works similarly but insert the data as well. Scraper is a data converter, extractor, crawler combined in one which can harvest emails or any other text from web pages. It supports UTF-8 so this Scraper scraps Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc with ease. You do not need to have coding, xml, json experience.

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Download Portable Moodle

 

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MoodlEasy (with Moodle Version 2.5 / 2014, Windows only) is intended to make learning Moodle as easy as possible for beginners. It is not intended for actual use online.

It is based on two freely distributed tools: LMS Moodle and USBWebserver.

Setup as easy as: extract the downloaded archive (use 7zip or other file archiver) to " C:\ " drive only !!!

LOGIN and PASSWORD are the same: “admin”.

Also suitable for working offline for teachers and students.

Users can start using Moodle immediately after clicking on executable file via automatically opened browser.

For security, it is recommended to use this outdated version only for learning offline and change passwords both in Moodle and PHPMyAdmin.

Features

Offline version of Moodle for beginners to learn and test

Easy launch with all preinstalled software

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/moodleasy-portable-moodle/

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If you are adventurous, follow this tutorial to create your own portable version.

https://aplicacionesysistemas.com/en/moodle-portable-tutorial/

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