[Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?

[Nick Lalone]

I don't know your stance on open source and the like but Microsoft Office
(2007,8) has Smart Objects that pretty much do the same thing as VUE.

Nick

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:16 AM, gus andrews <gus.andrews at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment
> threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are
> responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of
> software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create
> visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and
> another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.)
>
> I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for
> his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will
> work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the
> connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would
> take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which
> his software could crunch.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Gillian "Gus" Andrews
> Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education
> Teachers College, Columbia University
> www.gumbaby.com
> www.youtube.com/user/themediashow
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