Comments on: Analyzing Card Sort Results with a Spreadsheet Template http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/ Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Todd Warfel http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9499 Todd Warfel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9499 Unfortunately, the XLS file doesn’t exist on the server. Oops!

]]> By: Joe Lamantia http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9500 Joe Lamantia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9500 The .xls file is available from my site at this link:

http://www.joelamantia.com/html/card_sort_template_ba.xls

Enjoy!

]]> By: Joe Lamantia http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9501 Joe Lamantia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9501 The .xls file is available from my site at this link:

http://www.joelamantia.com/html/projects/card_sort_template_ba.xls

Enjoy!

]]> By: Mary Rackow http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9502 Mary Rackow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9502 We are very new to the concept of IA and user experience/testing in general. I would like to take a group who is incharge of migrating our content into a new cms thru the card sort exercise.

Does anyone have an EASY way to do this? By easy, I’m easy to explain, and where to start. It’s a new concept, so I’ll be doing some selling in conjunction with explaining the exercise.
Thanks!
Mary

]]> By: Timothy Pedersen http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9503 Timothy Pedersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9503 Check out this free beta software from IBM. EZSort can help you perform and analyse card sort data. http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/410

]]> By: Douglas Potts http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9504 Douglas Potts Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-9504 Angelina,
The idea of the “Standardized Categories” is that you’ve created a category name for all of the raw categories that are similar. For example, if you have three raw categories, such as “Email Us”, “Contact Info”, and “How to get in touch with us”, you will create a Standardized Category called, for example “Contact Us”. You then place those three Raw Categories into the one Standardized Category. At this point in a cluster analysis, you are not interested in exact labels, but the the topic of the labels.

]]> By: anjumsheikh http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5536 anjumsheikh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5536 I have category, sub-category and sub-sub category, how can I manage them? It would be appreciated if you advice me in this regards.
1 Meat
1.1 White Meat
1.1.1 (10) Chicken
1.1.2 (36) Turkey
1.2 Red Meat
1.2.1 Halal
1.2.1.1 (05) Beef
1.2.1.2 (20) Lamb
1.2.2 Non-Halal
1.2.2.1 (30) Pork
1.2.2.2 (02) Bacon
Waiting for expert advice

]]> By: joe_lamantia http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5537 joe_lamantia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5537 Javed,

One way is to conduct several rounds of sorting exercises. In the first round, have participants define the first two sets of categories. In the next round, have participants define additional categories, using the categories from the first round of sorting exercises as a reference.

You could also use one of the other tools available for card sorting (some are mentioned here: http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/cardsorting/, and in other articles in this magazine). Several of these tools support statistical analysis for category structures with more than two levels depth, using clustering and other algorithms.

My spreadsheet is meant to be lightweight and simple, so does not offer such capability yet.

Cheers,

Joe Lamantia

]]> By: renulin http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5538 renulin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5538 Can you pls let me know what you mean by ‘the number of different cards per category’ in the low & high card count section. i tried to find out what it meant but couldn’t find what it meant. Help pls

Thanks
Linda

]]> By: joe_lamantia http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5539 joe_lamantia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/analyzing-card-sort-results-with-a-spreadsheet-template/#comment-5539 Linda – “the number of different cards per category” shows how many unique cards (not counting repeated cards) were placed in each category. This is different than the total number of cards (which counts repeated cards) in the category, because the same card may appear in any one category more than one time.

The ratio of total cards in a category (counting repeated cards) to unique cards (not counting repeated cards) helps make clear whether participants ‘agreed on’ the cards that belong in the category. Categories in which many participants placed the same collections of unique cards, and where there were many instances of repeated cards, are categories that you’ll want to be able to spot and (perhaps) preserve when you’re designing your structure.

Does this help?

Cheers,
Joe Lamantia

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