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

[Emile Morse]

When we were developing WebCAT, we used Statistica to assure
that our trees looked like their trees. Data input was not very easy,
but when you are working with large numbers of items this will always
be hard.
--emile

At 01:40 PM 6/9/2003, 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?)
>
>Are there any programs out there that allow over 100 topics in the
>cluster analysis, ideally leading to a tree diagram like the EZ sort?  I
>know there are several others out there (WebSort, Web Cat, CardZort) -
>do any of these do the trick?
>If you want to send your answers directly to me, I can summarise for the
>list.
>
>Many thanks
>
>
>Chris Rourke
>Director
>User Vision - Focusing on the user experience
>http://www.uservision.co.uk
>Tel: 0131 220 8213 Mobile: 07976 814 689

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