Statistics

Today researchers across a wide variety of fields find themselves having to analyse an increasing amount of qualitative information. The objective of this summer school therefore, is to provide participants the requisite toolkit necessary for the successful planning, conducting and subsequent statistical analysis of qualitative text. To this end, an overview of the following methodologies: qualitative analysis, quantitative content analysis and text mining, to text analysis is provided. The opening sessions focus on the fundamental role of data preparation to the analysis, before moving on to identifying themes and correlations using both the text mining and content analysis approach. The final sessions address the more advanced topics of importing and exporting data, together with document classification.