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A more detailed comparison
Visualizations might be a good option for you if...
- You have limited or no coding experience
- You want to do a preliminary exploration of your data
- You are interested in exploring geographic analysis, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling
- You want to do a classroom demo of some text analysis methods
Limitations:
- Not all sources are available in Visualizations
- Full text cannot be downloaded off the platform; however you can export the data used to produce the visualization
- Limited ability to customize the visualizations
- Maximum of 10,000 documents per visualization
- Maximum of 10 visualization projects
Workbench might be a good option for you if...
- You have more advanced coding experience (in R or Python)
- You want to use your own text analysis methodologies
- You want to export the data to perform your own analysis
- You want to upload your own data to the virtual environment to do analysis
Limitations:
- Rolling 7 day export limit of 30MB per week per Workbench
- 1 million metadata records per week per workbench
- Due to copyright/source text licensing, you are unable to download a complete, un-altered copy of all full-text holdings. You are able to download aggregated and analyzed data that cannot be reassembled into full-texts, such as word counts, topic models, rearranged texts, etc. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns about this policy.