Transcript VBPro & Yoshikoder C.K. & D.L. VBPro About VBPro Must make own dictionary in this format Can import LIWC and other dictionaries, but wildcards.

VBPro & Yoshikoder
C.K. & D.L.
VBPro
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
VBPro: The text
Blogs from 5 women and 5 men on MySpace were
saved as a text file for analysis:
VBPro: Dictionaries
Optimism and Anxiety
Adapted from the LIWC dictionary
VB Pro does not accept wildcards!
Beginning of
dictionary #1
End of
dictionary #1
VBPro Output:
Men and women’s blogs analyzed using
anxiety and optimism dictionaries
VBPro Output: Results
•Analyzed mean differences between gender groups
•Report indicates large mean differences within anxiety
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.
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.