Spyral Notebooks work side by side with Voyant Tools. Create interactive notebooks with code and text to save your Voyant results, expand them, and perform robust textual analysis using JavaScript.
Use this site to find Spyral reference material and tutorials.
- Introduction to Spyral: An overview notebook that introduces Spyral Notebooks and shows their basic capabilities
- Dialogica Welcome: Provides a more thorough overview of Spyral Notebooks and includes interactive exercises to complete
The official Spyral documentation written in JS Docs
For Spyral Notebooks containing expanded code samples following the documentation, we have created the Spyral Reference Manual. Each section of the reference manual consists of sample code that can be copied and pasted into your own Spyral Notebooks.
- Categories
- Chart
- Corpus: Notebook includes code showing how to upload a corpus to Spyral and edit the corpus
- Load
- Metadata
- Notebook: Notebook includes code showing how to input an existing Spyral Notebook into a new Spyral Notebook
- Table
- Util
Spyral Recipes provide code samples for specific tasks common to literary text analysis. Recipes are a great starting point for those with limited coding skills to understand how to use Spyral. They also act as tutorials and provide clear instructions meant for a general audience.
Art of Literary Text Analysis for Spyral (Experience Level: Novice)
A series of notebooks that introduce digital text analysis skills and also demonstrate how to use Spyral.
Series includes:
- Getting Started with Spyral Notebooks: Introduces core concepts of Spyral Notebooks
- Creating a Corpus: Shows how to create a corpus with Voyant or programmatically with strings or URLs
- Exploring a Smaller Corpus: Shows how to work with a smaller corpus using Edgar Allen Poe's "The Gold Bug"
- Introducing Tables: Introduces core concepts of working with custom data and tables