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Using the built-in analysis tools

Using the built-in analysis tools

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Using the built-in analysis tools

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One major advantage of using a computer based or online tool, is that it can collect information for you. So you don't have to do as much data collection and entry. Most of the tools also give you an analysis suite, to help you make sense of the data. Here, we'll look at the information you get from optimal sort. If you though that the hand based card sort analysis was painful. You'll be very relieved to know that optimal sort and the other tools do a lot of data entry and formatting for you. Even if you ran the card sort in person, optimal sort lets you enter the results, and lets you do cluster analysis calculations for you. Having said that, it's still up to you to make sense of what the results are telling you. That still means diving into the data to some degree. Computer based tools aren't any more magic than an Excel spreadsheet. They might give you more data visualizations, but you still need to spend time working out what the data is telling you. In the last video, we started…

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