From susan.aaron@utoronto.ca Fri Dec 5 12:26:10 2003 From: susan.aaron@utoronto.ca To: air-l@lists.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Re: how to measure participation rates Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:24:45 -0500 Message-ID: <1070645084.3fd0bf5d001b0@webmail.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031205170105.2912B9E218@aoir.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0631282302833066051==" --===============0631282302833066051== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I attended the conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and t= he Life Sciences this past summer and one member presented a software for analys= ing information. He did some analysis of on-line text for me and it was useful re thematic counting and could possibly do participation as well if the analytic= al text was set up for that. It does numbers and diagramatics and probably could track chaotic formulas. It is called "Crawdad" and is accessible for academic use. The man's name is Kevin Dooley and he is based at Arizona State Universi= ty http://www.eas.asu.edu/~kdooley/ This isn't my area really so hopefully this is of use, and I know of a few mo= re interactive interfaces that visualize interactions that is of nearer my inter= ests. Susan Aaron Message: 8 From: "Katerina" To: Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:19:18 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] how to measure participation rates Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=3D_NextPart_000_0065_01C3BB53.EA3C0EB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"windows-1253" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you all for your valuable help.=3D20 Nescan seems to be a tool applicable to newsgroups and not web-based =3D discussion forums.=3D20 I have contacted a PERL programmer and I am waiting for a reply. If this =3D doesn't work I will have to carry it through manually. I am thinking =3D that I could use a sample of the messages, for example the two most =3D popular conferences, and analyse their messages instead of attempting =3D the impossible task of analyzing the total of the interactions in the =3D group.=3D20 Thank you once more,=3D20 K.D.=3D20 ------=3D_NextPart_000_0065_01C3BB53.EA3C0EB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"windows-1253" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Nescan seems to be a tool applicable = =3D to=3D20 newsgroups and not web-based discussion forums.

I have contacted a PERL programmer =3D and I am=3D20 waiting for a reply. If this doesn't work I will have to carry it =3D through=3D20 manually. I am thinking that I could use a sample of the messages, for =3D example=3D20 the two most popular conferences, and analyse their messages instead of=3D20 attempting the impossible task of analyzing the total of the =3D interactions in the=3D20 group.

Thank you once more,

K.D.

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