Do you want to know how to find the meaning in a set of open-ended comments from your survey, from an online discussion, or from reports, articles and books?
In this webinar, Ray Poynter, Co-Founder of NewMR and Word Cloud Plus, takes you step-by-step through a simple process for quickly finding the key messages in open-ended text.
Ray uses Word Cloud Plus to jump-start his investigation and then leverages the easy-to-use coding function to extract the key messages in the data.
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2. Agenda
• The role of coding
• Introducing word clouds
• Coding open-ended survey responses
• Coding longer-form text
• Word Cloud Plus
• Q & A
3. Coding Open-ended Verbatims
What makes a great presenter? Voice Audience Humour
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Clever way of involving people, using voice,
pause to get attention, eye-catching slides
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The ability to 'control' the presentation and
audience.
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Their overall persona - voice and how they
engage the audience - a balance of
presentation of facts and discussion, Slides -
easy to understand, visually attractive
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They are well-prepared and very interested in
the subject. You can really feel how much
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4. Coding Large Files
• 100 people, read them all
• 500 read them all
– but order effects come into play
• 5000 take a random sample of 500
– but order effects come into play
6. Coding with Word Cloud Plus
• Generate a cloud
• Code the most
frequently occurring
words & phrases
• Summarize the
patterns
• Premium feature
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8. Word Cloud Coding is Sampling
• Instead of a random sample, a sample based
on the words and phrases uses most often
• Instead of reading oldest to newest, or first to
last, we start reading with words & phrases
that are used more often
9. Other forms of open text
Reports, speeches, emails,
reviews, interviews, books etc
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz –
from Project Guttenberg
Not the same as the film
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11. Word Cloud Plus
Free Version
• Unlimited projects
• Unlimited exports
• 22 fonts
• Custom color schemes
• Basic data cleaning tools
Premium Version
• All free features
• No watermark
• Greater analysis tools
• Coding
• Licensed for commercial use
• $7.99 a month
• 60-day free trial