List of software to install before the DH@Wake Institute

Required Software

Mac & Windows

• Sign up for a free account on Flourish.
• OpenRefine - a tool for helping to organize and edit tabular data at scale
• Chrome browser - required to use the WebScraper Chrome Plugin
• WebScraper Chrome Plugin - allows you to scrape data off of websites
• Topic Modeling Tool GUI that uses Mallet to create topic models
• Postman - helps you develop an API call

Mac Only

• Homebrew (open ’Terminal’ program and paste in the command on the website. This may also prompt you to install XCode - please do so (it may take awhile)) - this is a package manager that makes installing command-line tools easier
• Tesseract (once Homebrew is installed (which may be 5-10 mins, not includign XCode update), in Terminal, type brew install tesseract) - this performs OCR on images of text

Windows Only

• Cygwin - command-line software with several tools built in
• Tesseract - this performs OCR on images of text

Strongly recommended, but not necessarily required

• A plain text editor (either Sublime Text or Atom are recommended)
• Spreadsheet software (Excel, Libre Office, anything that will open a spreadsheet)
• Python 3 (Windows: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/; Mac: Open Terminal and type brew install python3) will be helpful in one of the exercises, but you won't miss out on much if you just watch.