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An introduction to Leximancer

Dr Harry Kanasa Griffith University

Are you doing?

Policy document analysis Survey data analysis Transcript analysis Literary analysis Social media analysis

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

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)

What is Leximancer? How does it work?

Leximancer 101

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

Leximancer will not...

• Write your results section for you
• Give you sensible theme names (to begin

with)

• Tell you the best quotes to use

Cinderella: Literary analysis case study

What concepts and themes do you think Leximancer will find? (hypothesise)

But why does my concept map look different?

Leximancer 201

Survey analysis

Leading Change project: Analysis of survey data case study

• 8 conferences were conducted around the

state

• Participants asked to rate the effectiveness
• f the conferences
• download ‘satisfaction high vs low.csv’

Literature review/analysis

Online comment analysis

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”