Great team as we are able to complete the greater parts of our data collection  for variability test.

Pre test coding social media

We have  conducted the coding for the social media (100 tweets) using the inter reliability coding test . It was really time consuming . As the tweets might seem simple , with only 140 words to deal with, but its a tedious job and requires much concentration .

Problems…

Hi all, please read all of this: I have spent the day looking through the different settings in leximancer, and the good news is that i now have figured out how the majority of them works, and I was able to set some of our settings right (my internet died when i was almost done, [...]

Topsy Graphs

Any other words (-combinations) wishes so far?            

Trend for the word Mali, from 21 to 27

      http://trendistic.indextank.com/mali/_since-2012-03-20-22h-utc/_until-2012-03-27-22h-utc

Progress

We finished collecting the data for our  project  , that include the traditional media national and international , and the social media (tweets) . Currently we are  conducting  the ReCal3 test for 8 English langusge Articls , and the Recal2 for another 8 Arabic language articles , and 100 tweets .  

Work Progress Friday

Yesterday, our group spend the day waching youtube turtorials in order to get more familiar with the  prgramme Leximancer. We learned to understand the meaning of concepts in more detail and found out that we can add so called stop-lists in order to avoid “meaningless” small words. Furthermore, we learned tu use the “concept sensitivity” [...]

Sample for intercoder

Good morning Barbara, we are using the 30 articles Kundan allocated to us last evening, they were selected randomly from all NGOs, if you are still in HI please find me in seminar room 3.Thanks

Pretest Data collection

We have done an inter Coder reliability test  for 20 articles from the news papers . pretest should be conducted soon.

pre-test doubt

Phillipp , We are using the Recal reliability test. We want to know if we should calculate for Ordinal or Ratio Level data  ?

Data collection for inter reliability coding test

Group leader and my group mates are energetic working till 230 am, getting trained ourself in recording data. I appreciate your stamina and lets work tomorrow till 3 am. Hopefully pretest will work

Pre-test

We have started coding the traditional media (20 articles) using the inter reliability coding test . It was really time consuming . Have to get started with social media soon . We will pre-test it tomorrow .