Article by Andrew MacDonald The transfer of Voyant Tools user data to new server infrastructure is still underway. With multiple terabytes of data and millions of files involved, the migration…

Article written by JOHN BRANDLEY (with Andrew MacDonald) If you create Voyant corpora for teaching, research, publications, or long-term digital humanities projects, an important change is coming to the way…

If you’ve ever opened Voyant Tools for the first time and wondered where to start, you are not alone — and it turns out, you have options in more languages…

We recently took a deep dive into the research literature to update our Papers/Projects gallery — and what we found surprised even us. Voyant is being used in ways and…

The International Symposium on Digital Humanities, hosted by Peter University in collaboration with the African Digital Humanities Lab, brought together scholars, researchers, teachers, and students for a rich two-day engagement…

Understanding tokenisation, preprocessing, and why different results do not automatically mean an error. One concern that sometimes worries users is this: why does the same corpus produce different word counts…

Most Voyant users know that one of the strengths of Voyant has always been its openness. With just few clicks, anyone can quickly upload texts, create a corpus, and begin…

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.…