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3SA
Strukt – a visual shell for tabular data▲191
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4FT
Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)▲202
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5GA
Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus▲94
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6AA
An ASCII z-depth world (view source)▲44
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7WA
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8RA
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9GD
Gransk – Document processing for investigations▲111
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10AN
A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News▲90
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11DV
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Ultravisual▲68
Beautiful visual publishing.
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13TC
The Codex – a graph database project for the digital humanities▲33
2016 · the-codex.net
14LA
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15RA
ReadHNLater – A HN PWA with a “Read It Later” Feature▲39
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16AT
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17PL
Pedant: Linting for English texts▲15
2016 · github.com
18SP
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2011 · skimthat.com
19AB
A Byte of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles▲21
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20AP
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21UL
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22TP
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23LI
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24VA
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