Workbench
The Workbench is a Text Explorer environment for configuring analyses, building custom charts, and exploring results. Once your project has successfully preprocessed, you can use it to add analysis types, configure options, and build chart outputs.
Workbench layout
Section titled “Workbench layout”The Workbench is divided into four areas.
Left pane
Section titled “Left pane”The left pane has two tabs:
- Variables — Displays all the variables available in your project. Browse or search to find a variable, then drag it into the relevant analysis configuration.
- Outputs — Displays your saved chart library, organised in a tree by analysis type. Click a chart to reload its configuration.
Top pane
Section titled “Top pane”The top pane shows four dropzones that reflect the current variable configuration:
- Pre-processing Text Variables — The text variables being analysed (read-only from here)
- Processed Text for Analysis — The derived text variables available for analysis
- Comparison — Variables used as the basis for comparison across charts
- Filters — Variables applied as active filters across the analysis
Toolbar
Section titled “Toolbar”The toolbar runs across the top of the centre pane. It contains:
- Analysis type filter — Filter the chart grid by analysis type (All, Sentiment, Top Terms, Diff Terms, Text Drivers, Co-Occurrence)
- Analysis type buttons — Add a new analysis to the project (Sentiment, Top Terms, Diff Terms, Text Drivers, Co-Occurrence)
- Data Splits — Configure how results are segmented by supporting variables
- Theme — Apply a colour theme to all charts
- Layout — Control how many charts are displayed per row in the grid
- Export — Export selected charts from the output library
- View Text Auto Report — Navigate back to the Text Auto Report for this project.
Centre pane
Section titled “Centre pane”The centre pane is where charts are rendered and analysis options are configured. When you add or select an analysis type, the configuration panel appears alongside the chart preview.
Adding an analysis
Section titled “Adding an analysis”- Click an analysis type button in the toolbar (for example, Sentiment or Top Terms).
- The configuration panel opens alongside the chart area. Work through the Options and Advanced tabs to set up the analysis.
- The chart updates as you change settings.
- Click Save to add the chart to your output library.
Each analysis type has its own configuration options. See the individual pages for details:
Configuration tabs
Section titled “Configuration tabs”Each analysis type’s configuration panel has up to three tabs. Not all tabs appear in every analysis type — Co-Occurrence, for example, has Options and About this Analysis only.
| Tab | Contents |
|---|---|
| Options | Core settings: chart types, sentiment classes, comparison options, key thresholds |
| Advanced | Secondary settings: ignore lists, metric property, number of terms to display (Sentiment, Top Terms, Diff Terms, Text Drivers only) |
| About this Analysis | A brief description of what the analysis type does and when to use it |