Introduction
Before you start the themeit theme extraction process, there are a number of settings you can adjust to influence the behaviour of the process. These settings influence the themes that are extracted, the shape of codeframe that is created and the autocoding that is applied.
Settings
Within the "Settings" tab you can adjust the following options:
| Options | Description |
|---|---|
| Create Nets | If "Yes" is selected, the theme extraction process will attempt to group extracted themes into nets. |
| Max Themes | Set a number (between 10 and 300) to limit the maximum number of themes the process should extract. The actual number of themes returned may be lower than this maximum depending on the content of your data. If this setting is left blank, themeit will use a default of 100 themes as a maximum. |
| Autocoding Mode | Controls whether the autocoding applied by the AI should Minimise Gaps or Maximise Coding. See here for an explanation of these two coding modes. |
Advanced
Within the "Advanced" tab you can adjust the following options:
| Options | Description |
|---|---|
| Question Text | Enter the survey question used to collect the verbatims being analysed. Adding the survey question provides themeit with additional contextual information that it can use to generate a more appropriate and accurate codeframe. |
| Required Nets | Enter a list of nets (theme categories) that you're interested in or expecting to find within your data. This provides the system with key information about your analysis objectives which it wouldn't otherwise have. As a result it can help generate a more appropriate and accurate codeframe. The resulting codeframe will include all of the specified required nets, even if there are no themes discovered that fall into these nets. |
| Required Themes | Enter a list of themes that you're interested in or expecting to find within your data. This provides the system with key information about your analysis objectives which it wouldn't otherwise have. As a result it can help generate a more appropriate and accurate codeframe. The resulting codeframe will include all of the specified required themes, even if there are no verbatims found to contain these themes. |