Joao, I would suggest looking at the work of Warren Sack (UC Berekely) and Marc Smith (Microsoft), two scholars doing work with massive Usenet data sets. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/ On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Joao Vieira da Cunha wrote:
A few people asked me to share the answers to my question on newsgroup analysis, so here they go (although these are more questions than answers):
1. Several people shared links to Network analysis software, I have used this software for email but I still have to find an useful way to use it on newsgroups because most of the postings are to the group as a whole.
2. Off-the-shelf qualitative data analysis: great but all of the packages from Sage can't work with more than 500 records (unless you are willing to wait 20 min to rename a document). I have 3000 (which is small as far as newsgroups go)
Any suggestions
Joao
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