I've also used NodeXL to analyze connections & conversations in online forums. Handy and effective, and used with excel: <http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL> http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL
I think it is so interesting that I retweeted it ;-) Thanks for the input. Can't wait to test it... 2009/4/22 Jennifer Stromer-Galley <jstromer@albany.edu>
My co-author Anna Martinson and I re-jiggered a tool developed by Susan Herring (with help) for analyzing topic drift in synchronous chat that might work. See:
Herring, S. C. and Kurtz, A. J. (2006). 'Visualizing Dynamic Topic Analysis.' Proceedings of CHI'06. ACM Press. Retrieved April 18, 2008 from http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/chi06.pdf.
Herring, S. C. and Nix, C. G. (1997, March) 'Is "Serious Chat" an Oxymoron? Pedagogical vs. Social Use of Internet Relay Chat.' Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando, FL.
Anna and I have a manuscript forthcoming in NM&S that includes our description of how we used the tool and what the mapping of the discussion looked like. Let me know if you'd like the article, and I'll email it to you.
I've also spoken briefly with Judith Donath, who currently is at MIT's Media Lab, whose students have developed several interest visualizing techniques, including the People Garden (here's a quick link to info: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/01/people_garden_social_communicat ion_data_visualization.html). I know she continues to be interested in data visualization, although maybe not quite what your needs are.
BTW, Tracy suggested Atlas.ti. I've mucked around quite a bit with Atlas' visualization tool. It's clunky, and in the end abandoned my efforts to use that to track interactions. I think it's useful if you're hoping to visualize small segments of interaction. But, my data sets tend to be relatively large, making the Atlas approach quite labor intensive.
~Jenny
Assistant Professor Department of Communication, SS 340 University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12222 518-442-4873 jstromer@albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~jstromer
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of gus andrews Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:16 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?
Hi everyone,
My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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