[Air-l] RE: [Air-l]Answers'Studying newsgroups'

[Nancy Baym]

In my work I used Filemaker Pro with more messages than you are 
working with. It required some programmers writing programs to get 
the headers in a consistent order so they could get into consistent 
fields, and it didn't do content analysis for me, so it may not be 
feasible for your needs, but the ability to search for the occurrence 
of particular terms or posters or subject lines and what not was 
quite good.

>A few people asked me to share the answers to my question on 
>newsgroup analysis, so here they go (although these are more 
>questions than answers):
>
>1. Several people shared links to Network analysis software, I have 
>used this software for email but I still have to find an useful way 
>to use it on newsgroups because most of the postings are to the 
>group as a whole.
>
>2. Off-the-shelf qualitative data analysis: great but all of the 
>packages from Sage can't work with more than 500 records (unless you 
>are willing to wait 20 min to rename a document). I have 3000 (which 
>is small as far as newsgroups go)
>
>Any suggestions
>
>Joao
>
>
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