Resource Library

A curated collection of AI tools, digital research methods, and resources for researchers, journalists, and scholars working with digital media, computational text analysis, and data-driven workflows.

AI Research Assistants

• Elicit — AI research assistant for literature review, paper discovery, and data extraction from academic papers
• Consensus — Search engine that uses AI to find and synthesize findings from scientific research
• Semantic Scholar — AI-powered academic search engine with citation analysis and paper recommendations
• Research Rabbit — Visual tool for discovering related papers and mapping citation networks
• NotebookLM — Google’s AI notebook for synthesizing and querying your own research documents
• SciSpace — AI tools for reading, understanding, and writing research papers

Text Analysis & NLP

• Voyant Tools — Free, web-based text analysis and visualization for digital humanities
• ATLAS.ti — Qualitative data analysis for coding transcripts, field notes, and media content
• Orange Data Mining — Visual programming tool for data analysis, text mining, and machine learning — no coding required
• NLTK — Python library for natural language processing and computational linguistics
• spaCy — Industrial-strength NLP library for Python with pre-trained language models
• Gensim — Topic modeling and document similarity analysis in Python

Data Collection & Web Scraping

• Newspaper3k — Python library for extracting and parsing news articles at scale
• Beautiful Soup — Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents
• Wayback Machine — Internet Archive’s tool for accessing historical web content
• CrowdTangle / Junkipedia — Social media monitoring and tracking tools for researchers
• Selenium — Browser automation for scraping dynamic web pages

Data Visualization

• Datawrapper — Create publication-ready charts, maps, and tables without coding
• Flourish — Interactive data visualization and storytelling
• Tableau Public — Free data visualization platform for creating interactive dashboards
• RAWGraphs — Open-source tool for creating custom vector-based visualizations from tabular data
• Matplotlib / Seaborn — Python plotting libraries for statistical data visualization

Writing & Citation Management

• Zotero — Free, open-source reference manager with browser integration and collaborative libraries
• Grammarly — AI writing assistant for grammar, clarity, and academic tone
• Paperpal — AI editing tool built specifically for academic and research writing
• Overleaf — Collaborative LaTeX editor for academic papers and theses

Digital Security for Researchers & Journalists

• EFF Surveillance Self-Defense — Guides for protecting yourself and your sources online
• Tails OS — Privacy-focused operating system for sensitive research
• Signal — Encrypted messaging for secure communication with sources
• Tor Browser — Anonymous web browsing for researchers working on sensitive topics

Guides & Readings

• The Programming Historian — Peer-reviewed tutorials for digital humanities methods
• GIJN’s Data Journalism Resources — Global Investigative Journalism Network’s guide to data-driven reporting
• SAGE Research Methods — Comprehensive guide to social science research methodologies
• Digital Methods Initiative — Tools and approaches for studying the web and social media

My Research Stack

The tools I regularly use in my own computational research workflow:

Jupyter Notebooks · Pandas · Newspaper3k · R · Python · Voyant Tools · ATLAS.ti · Zotero

For code, datasets, and documentation, visit @Endalk-Chala on GitHub.