VBPro & Yoshikoder C.K. & D.L

VBPro & YoshikoderC.K. & D.L.

VBPro

About VBProMust make own dictionary in this format

Can import LIWC and other dictionaries, but wildcards (*) crash the program

Can run multiple cases simultaneouslyMust be in a .txt format

VB Pro will “clean” and format it to an .frm file

VBPro: The textBlogs from 5 women and 5 men on MySpace were saved as a text file for analysis:

VBPro: DictionariesOptimism and Anxiety

Adapted from the LIWC dictionaryVB Pro does not accept wildcards!

Beginning of dictionary #1

End of dictionary #1

VBPro Output:

Men and women’s blogs analyzed using anxiety and optimism dictionaries

VBPro Output: Results

•Analyzed mean differences between gender groups•Report indicates large mean differences within anxiety

VBPro Output: Results

•The anxiety variable neared significance•Results indicate that this variable may worth pursuing in a future study with a larger sample size.

Yoshikoder

Yoshikoder: Overview

Can be downloaded free at www.yoshikoder.org

A cross-platform, multi-lingual CATA program

Analyzes any text (.txt) document in ASCII, Unicode (UTF-8), or national encodings (e.g. Big5 Chinese.)

Must run one case at a time

Can import LIWC and other outside dictionaries

May write your own dictionary

Exports results into Excel

Yoshikoder: The basics

Yoshikoder: The text

Blogs from 5 male and 5 female MySpace users were analyzed using 8 LIWC dictionaries:

“I” references

“Job” references

“Leisure” references

“Occupation” references

References to “Self”

“Social” references

“We” references to group

“You” references to other

Yoshikoder: Output

Output is exported directly into Excel:

Yoshikoder: Results

•Analyzed difference between gender groups using ANOVA•We found no significant differences.