WordStat & Yoshikoder T.M. & M.S.

WordStat

About WordStat Must be run as part of SimStat Designed to process text such as open ended responses, journal articles, electronic communications, etc. Standard dictionaries are lacking, it is fairly easy to build your own dictionary Includes KWIC (Key Word In Context) Includes statistical computations

Preparing Data  Use spell-check, because misspelled words may be left uncoded by WordStat  WordStat is NOT case sensitive by default, but that can be modified  You can choose to include cases with missing values, or not  Data has to be in form of a spreadsheet  Columns = variables  Rows = cases

Designating Variables

Add/Remove words by frequency

Dictionaries

Frequency

Dendrogram

Statistics

Export to Excel

KWIC

KWIC Report

Yoshikoder

Yoshikoder: Overview Can be downloaded free at A cross-platform, multi-lingual CATA program Analyzes any text (.txt) document in ASCII, Unicode (UTF-8), or national encodings (e.g. Big5 Chinese.) Must run one case at a time Can import LIWC and other outside dictionaries May write your own dictionary Exports results into Excel

Yoshikoder: The basics

Yoshikoder: The text Blogs from 5 male and 5 female MySpace users were analyzed using 8 LIWC dictionaries: “I” references “Job” references “Leisure” references “Occupation” references References to “Self” “Social” references “We” references to group “You” references to other

Yoshikoder: Output Output is exported directly into Excel:

Yoshikoder: Results Analyzed difference between gender groups using ANOVA We found no significant differences.

Concordances  A concordance is a representation of one or more patterns with their respective context in the document.  Concordances are arranged in a 3- column table, with the target word in the middle and the text to the left and right.

Document Reports  Word frequency report – shows how many times the word appears in the document and the relative proportion of the text the word takes up.  Presented in a table format Token (word)FrequencyProportion

Dictionary Reports  Applies dictionary to entire document  Results presented in a table format  If you only want to look at statistics of categories simply check the ‘hide pattern’ box. Dictionary entry (animate>human>man) Pattern Frequency Weighted count (score*frequency)

Report on all Documents  To gather a report on the word frequency of all documents at once click on: Reports > All Word Frequencies  For a report on just one document click on: Reports > Document Word Frequencies

Compare Documents  Yoshikoder allows the user to compare two documents with respect to a dictionary.  To compare documents, click on: Reports > Document Comparison

Acceptable File Types  Yoshikoder accepts.txt files.  Yoshikoder Converter can translate Word and pdf files to.txt in order to be analyzed. This can be downloaded at