Analysis and Data Mining

You'll find the following information on this page:
Video Analysis Overview
Examine Video Data using Deductive Analysis
Assign Analytic Keywords using Inductive Analysis
Design a Video Case

Also see the following related topics:
Adding a video
Adding a episode
Creating a transcript
Collection analysis
Keyword analysis
Video Presentations

 

Video Analysis Overview
Tranana provides several options for data analysis. The following information describes video analysis capabilities.

  • Use Transana to assist in the analysis of video data in several ways.
  • Employ Transana for meticulous review of selected portions of a video.
  • Using Transana for review is less tedious and difficult than traditional video tape machines.
  • Transana has built-in capabilities that facilitate a detailed "drill-down" approach to video analysis that a traditional video tape machine does not.

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Examine Video Data using Deductive Analysis
Conduct a deductive analysis using the following procedure.

  1. Select the analytically interesting portions of the video (you will create as Clips).
  2. Create your clips and then organize them into theoretically-related collections.
  3. Examine these collections for multiple examples of the same phenomenon.
  4. Determine what categories you want to explore and collect clips that apply to complete the process of deductive analysis of your video data.

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Assign Analytic Keywords using Inductive Analysis
Use Transana to assign analytic keywords to your clips and then follow the procedure below.

  • Use Transana's search capabilities to combine and recombine your clips into new collections based on keyword search results.
  • Use Transana to take a diverse set of clips and perform data-mining to explore what relationships might exist.
  • Data mining is an information extraction activity whose goal is to discover hidden facts contained in a data source
    • Uncover patterns and relationships contained within the video.
    • Perform data mining by repeatedly slicing and dicing and recombining the data until a pattern becomes obvious.
  • Use Transana to perform searches:
    • To discover meaning in your data you could not see otherwise.
    • To help you find the meaning within video data more easily than with other analytic tools.
  • Assign keywords, create searches based on keywords, combine and recombine search results to perform data mining, and create collections based on recombined search results to complete the process of inductive analysis of your video data.

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Design a Video Case
Use Transana to explore video for the purposes of video case design.

  • Take a large amount of video data and boil it down to a coherent case.
  • Use Transana to determine what parts of the video are of interest to illustrate a particular point.
  • Build a collection of clips that illustrate that point.
  • Re-order the clips in your collection in a logical order to clarify your case.

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