[Air-L] Qualitative Data Analysis Software

[Chris Peterson]

I used devonTHINK to code ~13k emails for my SM thesis. It was well-suited to handling / categorizing / cross referencing / annotating many documents and more robust for same than most of the standard options. 


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> On May 13, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Julia Ticona <js5pd at virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dedoose is great. Just to throw another option out there - depending on
> your preferences, a writing-based software (I use Scrivener
> <https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php>) might work too. It has
> a really intuitive and helpful organization system for documents, allows
> you to make comments on documents and search through those comments just
> like you would with Dedoose, but it segues more naturally into writing,
> which I like a lot. But, it doesn't have all of the neat data visualization
> features that Dedoose, NVivo and some of the other programs have. Just a
> thought!
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Sara Vannini <sara.vannini.usi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've used NVivo and Atlas Ti... But I recently discovered Dedoose (online
>> tool) and I would pick Dedoose with no doubt and never go back to the
>> others!!! It's cheaper, easier, you can use it from any computer, and
>> several people can work on the same project at the same time (without
>> becoming crazy in the process). I reccommend Dedoose! I have not tries Cat,
>> though.
>> 
>> Sara
>> 
>>>> On 13-mag-2015, at 07:28, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you can chunk the data into speech acts:
>>> 
>>> http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/
>>> 
>>> - free
>>> - cloud
>>> - OS independent
>>> - collaborative
>>> - tools for measurement of accuracy and reliability
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Sarah Merry <skmerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>> 
>>>> I analysed my interviews using QSR NVivo 9 and have also used v.10 for
>>>> smaller amounts of text.  I find it intuitive and extremely useful -
>> though
>>>> expensive!  You can get a 30 day free trial at the website (
>>>> qsrinternational.com) to see what you think.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers, and good luck!
>>>> 
>>>> Sarah
>>>> 
>>>>> On 13 May 2015 at 12:43, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dear AOIRistas
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am about to a deep dive into a set of ethnographic interviews and was
>>>>> wondering if people would be willing to share their experiences and
>>>>> preferences with different software packages.  My only experience is
>> with
>>>>> QSR Nudist and Qualrus, neither of which was a happy time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Andrew
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