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New API doc course topic: Using AI For thematic analysis

by Tom Johnson on Aug 28, 2023
categories: ai • api-doc • api-doc-site-updates

One of the main ways I use AI is with thematic analysis, which involves identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within qualitative data. After you identify major themes, you can use least-to-most prompting techniques to go into more detail. I recently used this technique in preparing notes for a book club. It could also could work well for a number of documentation-related scenarios. In this article, I explore using AI for thematic analysis with doc feedback, search analytics, tags and related pages, FAQs, glossary items, bugs, and documentation pages.

Read the article here: Using AI For thematic analysis.

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