KEYWORD MAPS

Keyword Maps

Keyword Maps are graphical reports about selections from media data. When created for Episodes, Keyword Maps display coding across the time-line of the media file(s).

Keyword Maps for Collections create an artificial time line and display information for Clips. They are sometimes useful for showing relationships between Codes, but must be interpreted carefully because of the probably lack of a meaningful time-line.

Keyword Maps

Transana’s Keyword Maps are graphical versions of some of Transana’s Text-based Reports. They graph coding in selections across time for media source data files. The Keyword Maps are extremely flexible, and sometimes benefit from custom configuration to make a particular analytic point more effectively.

Types of Keyword Maps

Episode Keyword Maps

Episode Keyword Maps provide information about how a particular source media file was used in your analysis. The Episode Keyword Map shows information about the coding of Clips created from the selected Episode, regardless of where those selections are used in the analysis.

Collection Keyword Maps

The Collection Keyword Map shows only Clips from the selected Collection, regardless of their origin. It creates an artificial timeline, and it is up to the researcher to determine if this time line is analytically meaningful.

Clicking a bar in a Keyword Map causes Transana to load the data underlying that bar in the main interface.

• Left-clicking a bar closes the Keyword Map and displays the underlying data selection.
• Right-clicking a bar leaves the Keyword Map open and loads the underlying data selection in Transana’s main interface in the background.
• Holding down Ctrl on Windows or Cmd on macOS while clicking a bar loads the source data for the selection representing the bar in the Keyword Map, highlighting the context of that bar in the Map.