Transcript 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,

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 www.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
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 3column 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)
Frequency
Proportion
Dictionary Reports
 Applies dictionary to entire document
 Results presented in a table format
Dictionary entry
(animate>human>man)
Pattern
Frequency
Weighted count
(score*frequency)
 If you only want to look at statistics of
categories simply check the ‘hide pattern’
box.
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
http://www.yoshikoder.org/ykconverter/