The Category Matrix Browser

The Category Matrix Browser graphically displays the frequencies of the dictionary categories per unit of analysis. The categories of the dictionary form the rows while the evaluated texts form the columns:

The Category Matrix Browser

Call up the function via MAXDictio > Category Matrix Browser in the ribbon menu. The following dialog window will appear, in which you can set whether the documents, document groups or document sets will be displayed in the columns:

Setting options for the Category Matrix Browser

If you select the option Only for activated documents, only the documents activated in the “Document System” will be included in the display. Document groups and document sets without activated documents will not be displayed.

The nodes of the Category Matrix Browser contain the results of the count of the category frequencies. The larger a square, the more occurrences of the search terms of the respective dictionary category were found in the analyzed document, document group or document set.

The display is interactive. Double-click a node to display the search hits in the original text. 

Customize display

The operation and the display options of the Word Matrix Browser correspond to those of the Code Matrix Browser and are described there in detail. The export options are described there, too.

Export results

The icons on the right can be used to export the current view as an image or to insert it into a QTT worksheet. The frequency matrix used for the display can also be exported in Excel, HTML, or TXT format.

When exporting as a table, rows and columns are swapped to allow for easy analysis with statistical programs. The rows will therefore contain the units of analysis (cases) and the columns will contain the categories (as variables).

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