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VBPro & Yoshikoder C.K. & D.L. VBPro. About VBPro. Must make own dictionary in this format Can import LIWC and other dictionaries, but wildcards (*) crash the program Can run multiple cases simultaneously Must be in a .txt format VB Pro will “clean” and format it to an .frm file.
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About VBPro • Must make own dictionary in this format • Can import LIWC and other dictionaries, but wildcards (*) crash the program • Can run multiple cases simultaneously • Must be in a .txt format • VB Pro will “clean” and format it to an .frm file
VBPro: The text • Blogs from 5 women and 5 men on MySpace were saved as a text file for analysis:
VBPro: Dictionaries • Optimism and Anxiety • Adapted from the LIWC dictionary • VB 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: 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 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.