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What is Text Mining?

In a broad sense, text mining involves collecting information (or data) and placing it in a text mining software that can analyze and identify key concepts, and establish relationships and patterns that would otherwise not be easily accomplished by a human being.

Elsevier. (2015, October 8). What is Data Mining? [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/I3cjbB38Z4A

Voyant Tools is an online platform with a multitude of text reading and analysis tools, including:

Cirrus: "a word cloud that visualizes the top frequency words of a corpus or document".
Document terms: "a table of the documents in a corpus and includes functionality for modifying the corpus".
ScatterPlot: "a graph visualization of how words cluster in a corpus document similarity, correspondence analysis or principal component analysis".

See Voyant Tools Help page for the list of tools.

Lynch, T. M. (2014, June 13). Voyant tools tutorial [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/LWyMU0fWX58

Juxta
The Juxta family of software (Juxta, Juxta WS, and Juxta Commons) allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work.
TAPoR 3.0
TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval.
WordSeer
WordSeer is a text analysis environment that combines visualization, information retrieval, sensemaking and natural language processing to make the contents of text navigable, accessible, and useful.