[Air-l] nvivo

[Barry Wellman]

Coincidentally that some folks on this list mentioned Nvivo, Tom Richards
(co-founder with wife Lyn) of Nudist/Nvivo gave a demo of the new Nvivo7
qualitative analysis software yesterday.

It looked wonderful.
It's a totally rewitten integration of N6 (ex Nud*ist) and Nvivo2.
And has some hooks into statistical analysis packages, such as SPSS.

BTW, Tom & Lyn have recently retired as active employees of QSR, the
company they founded re their product. They remain connected.

Had lovely dinner with Tom last night, who is going to pursue his
astronomy hobby.

One nice story is that Nudist's name got changed to N4 because (a) some US
universities balked at buying such a risque product (even when spelled
Nud*ist), and then when the Internet took off, some prudish filters
wouldn't let messages through with Nudist in the subject line.

This is NOT an April Fool's story.
 Barry
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