Word Frequency Analysis and Word Cloud

A useful feature in NVivo is the word frequency analysis. Using this feature, you can quickly search through one or more text documents and find out which words are most commonly used. Based on this analysis you can create different visualizations such as a word cloud.

Word Frequency Analysis

This is how you execute a word frequency analysis in NVivo:

Click the "Explore" tab followed by the "Word Frequency" button
Now you will see the following menu:

The word frequency analysis menu in NVivo

Select "Files & Externals" to search all of your text documents. Select "Selected Items ..." to select specific text documents
Display words - Here you enter the number of words you want to extract
With minimum length - Here you enter the minimum length of the words you want to extract (letter count)
Finish with the "Run Query" button on the right to execute the analysis. (If you make changes to your settings, always click "Run Query" to update the results)
NB! If you are searching through Norwegian text documents, you must first add Norwegian stop words to your project. See here for how it is done.
NB! The "Grouping" section only works for English text. Norwegian text will not respond to "Grouping" settings

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Word frequency analysis is carried out

Word Cloud (and other visualizations)

Once you have completed a word frequency analysis, you can easily visualize your results. To do this, click on the "Word Cloud", "Tree Map" or "Cluster Analysis" buttons to the right of your results. You can further make changes in the appearance of the visualizations and right-click -> "Export" to export your visualization in your desired format.

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The various visualizations "Word Cloud", "Tree Map" and "Cluster Analysis" are selected in right hand menu