Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
A little bit of infrastructure
OK. About the transparency thing. There’s now a proper place to send bug reports and feature requests for the Yoshikoder. I had considered using the many options available from Sourceforge, but plumped for something that was much simpler, arguably more elegant, and most importantly: blue.
The app at APSA
This year the American Political Science Association meeting was in Philadelphia. The Yoshikoder went too, under cover of a Content Analysis working group organized by the irrepressible Stephen Purpura.
Attendees were asked for a short presentation, and a brief document covering either the content analysis methods they were developing, or the research problem they thought might benefit. I took the opportunity to write 4 pages on the Yoshikoder. You might find them useful. In particular, there’s motivation for, description of, and a guide to interpreting the relative risk ratios that the new statistical comparison report provides.
There’s plenty to be said about the other methods we heard about at the workshop, but I’ll save those for another entry.
Hosting changes
The Yoshikoder currently has its tray tables stowed and its seats in the upright position, ready for the move to sourceforge, an open-source project hosting site. You shouldn’t feel much difference: hopefully not much more than a change in the process for downloading new versions.
Famous last words…
Getting with the plan
Rumour has it that all software should have an associated blog. This is the one for the Yoshikoder, a simple open-source multilingual content analysis program.
Development news will appear here rather than in comments to my version control system. Much more informative, that way…
