Making sense of big text: A visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 261-267

  Angus, Daniel ^a   Rintel, Sean ^a   Wiles, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

analytics; big data; CAQDAS; concept map; Discursis; Leximancer; text; visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876025881     PISSN: 13645579     EISSN: 14645300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2013.774186     Document Type: Article

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