Understanding Questions Leximancer

I think we might need a Postspace for understanding questions concerning Leximancer, where Phillip can help out too…   I just started reading the text for tomorrow and I don’t get the following part within: A unified body of text is examined to select a ranked list of important lexical terms on the basis of [...]

coding context according to Workneh Manual

Done with the first stage of coding and reading the Workneh Manual , now coding the context of the press releases following the Workneh manual

Done with coding of thiry three press releases (Mercy Corps).

Pretested one of the Articles

pretested an article from The news on our newly developed spreadsheet.It looks fine. I have read three articles from the news paper Baloch Hal as well.Wangchucla is reading the articles from The News . Bradley is looking after the tweets and Aruchi is preparing the final spreadsheet so that we can do few other pretests [...]

Coding manual

Completing  the coding manual for the traditional media . The coding manual for the social media has been formulated . Have also pre-tested the coding sheet . The formulas are working well for the traditional media ,the 3 newspaper that we have selected ,namely Dawn ,the News and Baloch Hal , all from Pakistan itself [...]

Balochistan in focus

Found the above article written by Rahimullah Yusufrai in the news of pakistan. The article was written on Wednesday 4th April. It is worth reading as he had covered Balochistan issue internatioally, regionally and included all parties that needs to resolve the issue. This article has been choosen for prtesting. Hope it will work and [...]

Collecting Data from The Independent

I am currently collecting data from the Independent News Paper. It must be mentioned inline with the tradition of  collecting data that getting access freely  into home pages of virtually all the papers are of immense challenges. Despite the challenges though the work is progressing.

Progress

Data collection: 81 out of 100 news articles already collected. 19 togo before we start the content analysis. 22 Newspapers investigated: 8 liberals (44 articles);  10 consetvatives (29 articles); 4 centrist (8 articles)  

Coding

Had started on it already , so I just went ahead with it, however, I filled only  the first table, as you have mentioned , the second one will need much reading, that is where we shall need share the work.

Coding – Important Notice!

Hi everyone, it’s great to hear that some of you have already started with the coding. However, the plan was for you to first double-check with me if the coding-sheet is ok, applicable and comprehensive. I’d suggest you do some test-runs and a pre-coding, but wait with the final coding of the articles. Except: you’re [...]

100 TWEETS

I am just done with coding 100 tweets in the period between 25 of January until 27 of January for Egyptian users!! I did not imagine it would be that tiring and time consuming YET, VERY INTERESTING. I will continue my coding tonight on #Tahrir  and #Egypt for international users Abdallah

Technical Report in Team Mali

Team Mali technical aspect is coming up fine. Data has been loaded into the platform as specified. In coming days we will start analysis and monitor progress.