Voyant recently gained a new visualization tool; the Constellation Viewer. The Constellation viewer is a tool designed to let users explore Word2Vec models. A Word2Vec model is any mathematical model…

We have recently added several tutorials/example notebooks of how to build several custom visualization in Spyral. Bar Chart Demo In the first notebook, located here, we have a tutorial on…

By Ayushi Kemka Voyant Tools has always been more than a piece of software. It’s also a community of people who teach with Voyant, build with Voyant, write about Voyant,…

VoyantServer (and the corresponding Docker version) has been updated with over six months of features and bug fixes since the last bundled update in July 2025. The full release notes…

Imagine you’ve used Voyant Tools to analyze a corpus—maybe a novel, a set of news articles you scraped, or interview transcripts—and you’ve carefully documented everything in a Spyral Notebook for…

The three-part workshop series “Sharing What You Did: Documenting Text Analysis Research with Voyant and Spyral” focused on a core research challenge in Digital Humanities: not just producing results, but…

By Andrew MacDonald · Last updated 3 November 2025 During everyday usage, hundreds—sometimes thousands—of working files are created on the Voyant Tools server. Many of these are short-lived cache files…

 Dialogica is a compact, openly licensed set of teaching materials that help students learn with Voyant Tools while thinking critically about what text analysis shows—and what it can’t. Dialogica (voyanttools.github.io)…

Reporting a Problem in Voyant (No Coding Needed) Open-source only works when users speak up—here’s how to file a clear GitHub issue in minutes. If you use Voyant (or the…

Reflection after a panel for CSDH‑SCHN 2025: Reframing Togetherness Introduction How can we sustain research tools like Voyant? The funding ecology in Canada is one that rewards new and innovative projects,…

Fifty‑three Digital Humanities scholars from seven countries and twenty‑six cities wrapped up the first stage of the “Train the Trainers” Hackathon on Friday, 5th July 2025, marking a successful inaugural…

Author: Andrew Mcdonald Creating rich, interactive analyses in Spyral is one thing—but building notebooks that talk to one another is a whole new level of magic. Today, we’ll explore how…

Author: John Bradley King’s College London (UK); formerly University of Toronto john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk  https://kdl.kcl.ac.uk/about/people/john-bradley/ It is probably obvious that the Voyant Consortium has been created to keep Voyant and Spyral alive.…

Voyant has a new category feature. Categories allow a user to visually organize the terms that appear in a text. Each term in a category will be highlighted in the…

The Voyant team is proud to announce that we have added a new Table Editor to Spyral. We have added a new “Table” block to Spyral. It can be found…

Article by Simran and Mehul Since its creation by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell in 2011, Voyant Tools has emerged as a foundational platform in the field of Digital Humanities,…

By Ayushi Khemka, Geoffrey Rockwell  and John Bradley Digital notebook technology has become a significant feature of data-driven research over the past 10 or so years.  Notebooks provide a way of combining displays…

Introduction  Hello and welcome! In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to serve up Voyant Tools using Docker in a fun way. For those of you just starting out, Docker is…

By Hannah Perry Announcing publication Literature of the Romantic Era: a Digital Textbook Home page: https://diged.org/RomanticsTextBook/  For instructors: https://diged.org/RomanticsTextBook/instructors.html  This digital textbook of Romantic Era Writers created by college students…

Introduction In this study, we shall analyse survey responses to explore the demographics, engagement patterns, and preferences of Voyant Tools users. We examine how frequently users interact with the platform,…