1. VBPro & Yoshikoder C.K. & D.L.

2. VBPro

3. About VBPro Must make own dictionary in this format Can import LIWC and other dictionaries, but wildcards (*) crash the program Can run multiple cases simultaneously Must be in a.txt format VB Pro will “clean” and format it to an.frm file

4. VBPro: The text Blogs from 5 women and 5 men on MySpace were saved as a text file for analysis:

5. VBPro: Dictionaries Optimism and Anxiety Adapted from the LIWC dictionary VB Pro does not accept wildcards! Beginning of dictionary #1 End of dictionary #1

6. VBPro Output: Men and women’s blogs analyzed using anxiety and optimism dictionaries

7. VBPro Output: Results Analyzed mean differences between gender groups Report indicates large mean differences within anxiety

8. VBPro Output: Results The anxiety variable neared significance Results indicate that this variable may worth pursuing in a future study with a larger sample size.

9. Yoshikoder

10. Yoshikoder: Overview Can be downloaded free at www.yoshikoder.orgwww.yoshikoder.org 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

11. Yoshikoder: The basics

12. 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

13. Yoshikoder: Output Output is exported directly into Excel:

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