Graduate Research in Composition and Rhetoric

Postman is a desktop and web application that allows you to make requests to an API from a graphical user interface. We recommend using Postman with the Twitter API, Twitter Ads API, and Labs endpoints when exploring the APIs functionality, as well as when you are troubleshooting issues with your application.

Instaloader is a tool to download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram.

NVivo is available at no cost to UA students, faculty and staff.

SPSS Statistics is a comprehensive software package that includes data management, statistics, and reporting capabilities. SPSS is a modular product, so additional modules can be used to carry out specific analyses not supported by the Base product.

Box is a cloud storage service that provides cloud storage to students, faculty, and staff of The University of Alabama via Box.com. Box is an easy-to-use, safe way to store and share files with colleagues at and outside of UA. Box can be used to store sensitive data, including HIPAA data as the University has a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Business Associate Agreement (HIPAA BAA) with Box to allow use for Protected Health Information. All Box servers are US-based.

Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.

Since 1998, Software Carpentry has been teaching researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain. Our volunteer instructors have run hundreds of events for more than 34,000 researchers since 2012. All of our lesson materials are freely reusable under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.

Python is a programing language that allows you to use structured data and object-oriented and functional programing. It is appropriate for small and large projects.

HTML is the standard markup language for Web pages.

A Markup language that translates between human readable and machine readable encoding.

an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values). It is a common data format with diverse uses in electronic data interchange, including that of web applications with servers. (wikipedia description)