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An introduction to Leximancer Dr Harry Kanasa Griffith University Are you doing? Survey data analysis Transcript analysis Policy document analysis Literary analysis Social media analysis Objectives Introduce you to Leximancer


  1. An introduction to Leximancer Dr Harry Kanasa Griffith University

  2. Are you doing? Survey data analysis Transcript analysis Policy document analysis Literary analysis Social media analysis

  3. Objectives ● Introduce you to Leximancer ● Understand how Leximancer works ● Interpret concept maps ● Explore different data types suitable for analysis ● Inspire you to explore Leximancer further

  4. Why use Leximancer? ● get results fast(er) ● reduce human bias (increase validity) ● conducts thematic and conceptual analysis NOT just word counts ● multiple data types, multiple languages (latin characters)

  5. What is Leximancer? How does it work?

  6. Leximancer 101

  7. Take away messages from the video - Natural language is dynamic and complex - We use ‘clusters of words’ that travel together throughout the text - Leximancer learns the grammar and vocab based on the text - Meaning emerges from the text - Analyse data via interactive concept map - Traditional and modern texts okay

  8. Leximancer will not... - Write your results section for you - Give you sensible theme names (to begin with) - Tell you the best quotes to use

  9. Cinderella: Literary analysis case study What concepts and themes do you think Leximancer will find? (hypothesise)

  10. But why does my concept map look different?

  11. Leximancer 201

  12. Survey analysis

  13. Leading Change project: Analysis of survey data case study ● 8 conferences were conducted around the state ● Participants asked to rate the effectiveness of the conferences ● download ‘satisfaction high vs low.csv’

  14. Literature review/analysis

  15. Online comment analysis

  16. What’s Harry like as a teacher? What’s the quality of his teaching? What do students think of him? How has his teaching changed over time? “Access SET analysis files”

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