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.) I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow
Howdy, Have you checked out the open source VUE <http://vue.tufts.edu/>administered through Tufts? Jennifer On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, gus andrews <gus.andrews@gmail.com> wrote:
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.)
I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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I don't know your stance on open source and the like but Microsoft Office (2007,8) has Smart Objects that pretty much do the same thing as VUE. Nick On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:16 AM, gus andrews <gus.andrews@gmail.com> wrote:
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.)
I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Check out this tool by Anatoliy Gruzd. We've been using it for analysis of online conversations and the extraction of social networks. /Caroline http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~agruzd2/icta_web/ ---- Original message ----
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:20 -0400 From: gus andrews <gus.andrews@gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations? To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
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.)
I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Anybody here use WEFT QDA or any other qualitative data analysis software for linux? Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Mark Mark Warschauer Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine Berkeley Place 2001 (for mail); Berkeley Place 3000C (for visitors) Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw
I suggest porphyry/ Cassandre ( http://cassandre-qda.sourceforge.net/about.en.html ) It is an opne source/free software that allows you to analysemultiformat corpus on either an individual or a collaborative way. To summarize the idea: Cassandre helps the researchers to build analytical frameworks consistent with their hypotheses. With such a companion, the researchers chooses, in the material, keywords or idioms as accurate candidate surrogates for investigated phenomena. The software finds all excerpts that belong these keywords/idioms, so that all exerpts related to a phenomenon can be compared. Comparisons help to refine the hypotheses or raise new questions. And so on, the interactive analysis goes on... It is an interative process. You find words in the text that you define as indicators. Those indictors, you link them to braoder idea of concepts and then the tool scan the all corpus to highlight the conept in it. Example: 5-2 : I think to have to correct again, based on what I said earlier. I have said that in the past, anyone could publish anything and you had just to rely on the one who published it. Now, there is the social control, coming from feedback, so it is easier to assess. Here you can define the words anyone and anything as indicators of a broader trend, let's say "technology fo all". Cassandre will give you analytical framework that shows you all the use of these word in the corpus that rely on this trend. By exploring again the text, you find experts such as: 2-4: Professionalism. The journalist is a professional who act in a certain way, in a certain process. And anyone can set up a blog and they don't necessarily go about a certain process or a certain way of acting. Following this you may understand add the idea of amateurism to your analytical framework... and so on... It GREAT !! I hope this help... Jeremy 2009/4/21 Mark Warschauer <markw@uci.edu>
Anybody here use WEFT QDA or any other qualitative data analysis software for linux? Any thoughts or recommendations?
Thanks, Mark
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Hi I have occasionally used RQDA. http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/ this package works on top of GNU R and you have to intall R as well to use it. Do not expect ATM anything more than WEFTQDA, but if you are a bit familiar with R it is nice to use it, you can even think to integrate qulitative and quantitative data in one single project S. 2009/4/21 Mark Warschauer <markw@uci.edu>:
Anybody here use WEFT QDA or any other qualitative data analysis software for linux? Any thoughts or recommendations?
Thanks, Mark
Mark Warschauer Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine Berkeley Place 2001 (for mail); Berkeley Place 3000C (for visitors) Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw
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Hello, I am writing a paper on a similar subject (responses in forum and username and network analysis). The data extraction was done with a web extractor tool, importing the data in an access db and performing a simple SQL query to detect who's answering to who. The network analysis was done with NodeXL, (previously NetMap) - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25691 . This tool is for Excel 2007 only. Regards, Yohanan Ouaknine Dataneto.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Caroline Haythornthwaite Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:21 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations? Check out this tool by Anatoliy Gruzd. We've been using it for analysis of online conversations and the extraction of social networks. /Caroline http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~agruzd2/icta_web/ ---- Original message ----
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:20 -0400 From: gus andrews <gus.andrews@gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations? To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
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.)
I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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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!
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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I¹m not sure if this will help, but AProf Judy Kay and her team here at Sydney have created a tool to visually report on group work processes. Details at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/research/tr/tr582.pdf I know she is often looking for projects for her graduate students, and maybe would be willing to work on a modification of that. M-H On 22/04/09 2:16 AM, "gus andrews" <gus.andrews@gmail.com> wrote:
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.)
I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Caroline Haythornthwaite -
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Jennifer deWinter -
Jennifer Stromer-Galley -
Jeremy Depauw -
Mark Warschauer -
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Nick Lalone -
Stefano De Paoli -
Yohanan Ouaknine