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

[Gupta, Anu]

You might want to try CardZort
http://condor.depaul.edu/~jtoro/cardzort/index.htm

I've only gave it a very brief look a few months ago, and have no idea
whether or not it can handle the number of cards you require, but it might !



anu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: donna at maadmob.net [mailto:donna at maadmob.net] 
> Sent: 10 June 2003 13:22
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> 
> 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?)
> 
> 

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