Select a word orientation (indicated by the symbol), shape, theme, colours and font to suit your own preferences (in this example we’ve gone for horizontal writing within a circle shape with a colourful theme in Verdana font). Each worksheet within that file corresponds to a different step in the process as outlined below.Ĥ. See the qual coding Google Sheet for an example data file, collected using the ‘ 3 words’ approach. Open the word cloud generator you’ve chosen to use in this case we’ll use (as it doesn’t require a separate plugin, is usable on most platforms, and contains most of the functions you’re likely to need). Click on ‘File’ to upload your data (choose whichever option best suits how you have saved the data).ģ. If you haven’t already, save your data to a file or have it in a format you can easily cut & paste from.Ģ.
Brief instructions on how to use a word cloud for analysis.ġ. You can often adjust the stop words if you need to. Most word cloud programmes use “stop words” these are common words (like “and” and “the”) which are automatically removed from the analysis.They typically produce a visual image from a given text input, with the size of each word corresponding to how frequently it appears within the text.So it’s important to think of them as a “tool” (whose output needs to be checked) rather than a “brain” of their own. Note that certain versions limit how much text they actually use in the output they display, or may not be capable of more advanced editing / calculation functions.Some work better with different computer platforms, or different language inputs, or different types of text inputs, so if one doesn’t do what you want then try another. There are a lot of different online tools for creating word clouds available, each with slightly different functionality.There are plenty of free resources to create your own word clouds available online two of the best are: and Let’s get started…īefore we start, there are a few important things to know about word clouds: A file containing the responses provided by your participants.This tool will help you analyse your data after an event. They are straightforward for anyone to use, making them particularly useful if you haven’t used much qualitative data before. Though not technically a detailed analysis technique, word clouds allow you to easily identify data patterns from participants responses. What kind of activities can I evaluate with it? Word clouds are a fun and useful way to easily visualise common themes from data provided by participants in their own words. Analysis technique – Word clouds What is this tool?
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