What is BigSEM?

BigSEM is a collection of software programs for conducting SEM analysis with new types of data such as network data and text data.

How to install BigSEM?

BigSEM can be used either locally as R packages or online using our web app.

R Package

We have two R packages in the development stage that can now be installed from GitHub. We plan to upload the packages to CRAN before the end of December, 2024. The R package networksem can be used for SEM network analysis and the package TextSEM can be used for text analysis.

## Install the package for network analysis
remotes::install_github("iasnobmatsu/networksem")

## Install the package for text analysis
remotes::install_github("Stan7s/TextSEM")

Web App

To use our web app, go to the website at https://bigsem.org/app. Note that you will be prompted to log in as a user. If you don't have an account, you can register one for free.

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Once logging in our web app, one can create a project and start to conduct the analysis. Note that we manage projects as files. One can upload, create, and delete files within the app.

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