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A survey of qualitative and quantitative text analysis techniques.

Topics

• grounded theory

• open and closed coding

• content analysis

• topic modeling

Readings

• Goodwin, Charles (1994). "Professional Vision." American Anthropologist 96(3):606-633 [pdf]

• Gersick, Bartunek & Dutton. 2000. Learning from Academia: The importance of relationships in professional life. Academy of Management Journal 43(6): 1026-1044. [^pdf],

• Blei, D.M., Ng, A.Y. and Jordan, M.I., 2003. Latent dirichlet allocation. Journal of machine Learning research, 3(Jan), pp.993-1022. [pdf] (just skim this)

• Flanagan, JC 1954. The critical incident technique. Pych Bull 51: 28-35. [pdf] 

Use of ChatGPT in coding texts (optional)

• Theelen, H., Vreuls, J., & Rutten, J. (2024). Doing Research with Help from ChatGPT: Promising Examples for Coding and Inter-Rater Reliability. International Journal of Technology in Education, 7(1), 1-18. 

Handouts

• Introduction to Grounded Theory [html]

  • Example of field and code notes

  • Themes and memes analysis

• Borgatti. Coding [html]

• Content analysis

  • ppt on content analysis

  • Content analysis process [html]

• What to look for when open-coding text [html]

• LIWC

• Borgatti. Notes on Professional Vision  

• Participant observation

• Example of analytical tool for text analysis [html]

Data

• obituaries

Notes

• Notes | Text