[Sigia-l] Card sorting & cluster analysis for over 100 cards

[donna at maadmob.net]

I haven't found a good computer program for this. The way I have 
done this in the past is to use a spreadsheet. List card titles in the first 
column, participants names across the top, and participant's group 
names down the columns.

Print out, sticky-tape together, put on a big desk and stare at it for a 
while until you can start to see the patterns...

I did this with 150 cards and 20 participants and it worked well.

Donna

On 9 Jun 2003 at 18:40, Chris Rourke wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> We are doing some card sorting work for a client involving over 100
> cards.  This  is by far the most we have had to sort in any session (the
> client actually had over 500 topics they wanted to include!).
> Anyway, the problem is that IBM EZ sort (consisting of Usort and EZCalc)
> only seems to handle 100 cards maximum.  If I try to run the cluster
> analysis & create a tree diagram in EZ Calc, it crashes.  (anyone
> reading this from IBM - maybe something to work on for the next Beta
> release 1.4?)