How to explore the co–occurrences of an ethnographic code

Two ethnographic codes co-occur when they are associated to the same contribution. In social terms, it means one of the informants has mentioned them almost in the same breath – in the same post, or comment. The codes co-occurrence network keeps track of co-occurrences across ethnographic codes.

Imagine we are interested in a particular code, and we want to explore its connections with other codes. This is equivalent to exploring its ego network, i.e. the subgraph that includes the codes itself, all its neighbours, and the edges between it and each neighbour. To do it:

1. Open GraphRyder: https://bit.ly/graphryder
2. Click on the Tag view tab (NOTE: to be renamed One code view as per issue #34)
3. Start typing a code in the search box – for example food. The autocomplete function suggests possibilities. Choose one.
4. The node-link diagram shows the ego network of the code you have selected. The central node represents that cod. The other nodes represent all the codes that co-occur with it.
5. Codes are stored as labels of the nodes. To visualise them, move the Display labels on nodes slider to the right, towards All.
6. To find out which codes are co-occurring with our central code the most, move the Co-occurrence intensityslider to the right, towards Strong.
7. To find out more about what the community means by asserting that two codes are connected, click on the interactor with the icon of the eye, then click any edge. On the right side of the screen, a list of all the contributions in which both codes occur appears.
8. Clicking on the icon of any of these contributions, the full text appears.