distributor: Verlag Inge Huber, Tübingen
| HyperResearch 2.8 |
authors: S. Hesse-Biber, P. Dupuis, T. S. Kinder
distributor: Researchware, Inc.
documentation: tutorials
download: test version
operating systems: MS-Windows, MacOS-X, PowerPPC
description: Easy-to-Use "Point and Click" Interface: featuring pull-down menus, click-and-drag selection, and keyboard shortcuts for those who prefer keyboard commands to mouseclicks.
Multi-Media Capabilities: HyperRESEARCH allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video source material. Displayed reports include hyperlinks to underlying source material.
Comprehensive Code-and-Retrieve Functions: HyperRESEARCH allows you to select any chunk of text (from 1 character to an entire file) and apply any number of code names to the chunk. Recall your codes by name, or select them based on proximity to other codes. View codes in context, in the margin of your Source (Text) Window; or create an exportable report that organises the specific data you ask for by case or by code name. Reports can be hyperlinked back to the original source material.
Code Annotation (Memoing) and Descriptions: Select a code reference on a case card, click the annotate button, and add up to 32,000 characters of information per reference. Use the Code List Editor to enter a code definition for any of your master codes.
Expanded Autocoding: Autocode multiple sources to multiple cases, looking for multiple phrases in a single pass. Specify a number of characters, words, or lines before and/or after the found phrases to be included in the chunk selected for autocoding.
Code Mapping: Use the Code Map Window to graphically represent relationships between your master codes.
Hypothesis Testing: Use the Artificially Intelligent "Expert System" provided by the Hypothesis Tester to perform in-depth analyses of your coded data to see whether the coding supports your hypothesis.
| Kwalitan 5.11 |
author: Vincent Peters
distributor: Kwalitan advies
documentation: no
download: demo
operating system(s): DOS (4.0), MS-Windows
description: Kwalitan is a program for the analysis of qualitative data and is a special purpose database program and based on the grounded theory approach. Up to 25 codes can be attached to a text segment. Kwalitan gives an alphabetical overview of the codes already attached to the segments, together with their frequencies you can create a tree structure to establish the hierarchical structure of the codes. Codes and their combinations can be searched, also with boolean logic. A summary can be made of each segment, up to 1000 characters long. Four types of memos are available.
Kwalitan has some features for content analysis, e.g. frequencies of words, overviews of 'key word in context' and 'key word out context' Matrices of the frequencies of words or codes can be generated and analysed by statistical software.
| MaxQDA 2007 |
author: Udo Kuckartz
distributors: VERBI GmbH
download: trial 30 days
operating systems: MS-Windows, English, German, and Spanish version (program and tutorial)
documentation: introductory manual in PDF format or a tutorial here
description:
With MAXqda you can:
Create and import texts in Rich Text Format
Import texts and pictures (GIF and JPEG) from the Internet by drag and drop
Create text groups and organize your textual material
Build text sets for temporary analysis
Create a hierarchical code (category) system with up to ten levels
Select text segments and assign codes or subcodes from your code system
Attach a color atribute to every code
Display the text with codings stripes indicating which codes have been attached
Attach a code memo to every codes to keep track of the code's definition
Import pre-coded for instance fouces groups or interviews
Attach a weight score to text segments indicating the relevance of the segment for your research
Select words or terms in your text and insert them automatically in your code system ("in-vivo-coding) Search for word and strings or combinations of words or strings in your texts or subgroups of your texts Display search results as keyword in context
Code automatically search results
Keep track of your ideasw and hypothesis by writing memos
Work with your memos by use of the Memo Manager and create integrative memos
Attach special icons to the different types of memos ("theory memos", "methodological memos" etc.)
Manage a set of attributes ("variables") for every text
Use the variables as filter criteria for text retrieval or lexical searches
Export the table of variables to statistics programs or Excel
Import a table of variables from Excel or SPSS
Pre-code text segments, for example for the analysis of open-ended questions in questionnaires
Work together in teams and use special teamwork functions
Send your whole project or parts of it by Internet to your colleagues
Merge projects for instance for qualitative panel analysis
Use a set of 10 analytical functions for text retrieval ("near", "surrounded by", "followed by", "at least" etc.)
Manage small studies as well as large text sets.
The new module MADictio allows autocoding of whole texts. MaxMaps enables you to use a lot of visual tools.
| QSR NUD*IST - Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theorizing |
authors: Lyn and Tom Richards
distributors: QSR International
download: demos
operating system: MS-Windows
documentation: manual
description:
Designed for researchers making sense of complex data, N6 offers a complete toolkit for rapid coding, thorough exploration and rigorous management and analysis. With a full command language for automating coding and searching, N5 supports a wide range of methods. Its command files and import procedures make project setup rapid, and link qualitative and quantitative data. Tolerant of large data sets, it ships with QSR Merge, which seamlessly merges two or more projects (N4 or N5) for teams or multi-site rese arch.
Documents are imported singly or in batches, in plain text with automatic formatting to the chosen unit of text. Coding on-screen, with immediate access to the code system. Coded material is displayed for reflection, revision of coding and coding-on to new categories. With searches of coding or text accessed by new, visual displays, the researcher can test hypotheses, locate patterns or pursue a line of inquiry to a confident conclusion.
| QSR NVivo 8.0 |
authors: Lyn and Tom Richards
distributors: QSR Internationl
download: demo
operating system: MS-Windows
documentation: tutorials
description:
With NVivo researchers can handle rich data as rich text - with the full ability to edit, visually code, and link documents as they are created, coded, filtered, managed and searched.
In NVivo, you can create, edit, code and explore compound documents, which have embedded hyperlinks to multi-media files and complex webs of links between data and ideas about it.
A "Node System" provides structured and unstructured ways of representing project topics. Any run of characters in a document can be coded at any number of nodes that apply to it. There are several ways of automating the coding of documents. Documents and nodes can be inter-linked by hyperlink-style jumps to provide cross-referencing networks. In this way commentary "memo" documents can be made for nodes and other documents; and nodes can be constructed to act as "extract" references for topics mentioned in documents.
Documents are fully editable, and the editing does not upset or invalidate existing coding and linking. This "edit-while-you-code" feature allows users to build up their documents over time, and to code and link text as it is added - as well as to edit text already coded. Documents and nodes (and what they represent) can be given any number of "attributes" (properties) to describe and characterise them and to use them as filters. Also import and export attribute data via tables to statistical and other table-handling programs is supported.
Attributes can have any relevant values (dates, numbers, boolean, strings). The ability to test for match, range or comparison allows you to maintain precision. Documents and nodes can be grouped into any number of "sets" for whatever purpose the user desires, which can be studied for their features, contents, etc. A very powerful Filter tool in the Set Editor allows selection and winnowing of items in sets by their properties, their attribute values, coding, and many other features to provide a fast analytical tool for answering "which"-type questions about project data. A graphical "Modeler" supports the construction of any number of item-and-link diagrams built out of project objects such as documents, nodes and attributes; with instant access back to the project objects. The modeler supports grouping and layering of objects, providing in effect 4-dimensional blackboards for the visual description of structures, processes and the like in the domain of your project.
An integrated "Search Tool" provides a large number of ways of of searching features, including tabular statistical summaries. A very large collection of report generators provide listings of all sorts of project data as editable rich text documents, and Profiles (on-screen tables) of data that can be exported to statistical and other table-handling programs.
There are facilities for managing project teams and the access of team members to project data.
| Prospero 7.0 |
author and distributor: Francis Chateauraynaud & Jean-Pierre Charriau
download: no
operating system: MS-Windows
documentation: no
description:
The whole website is in French, although Prospero can analyse texts language independently (English, Spanish, German).
- pattern matching (including morphological and/or category queries),
- key words in context,
- spotting of modalities, citations, irony criticism (among others)
- networks of associated words
- category system (constructed - and shared - by the users) but no statistical inferences.
- measure of events (its importance, its scope, its power to reconfigure the data - ie difference before / after)
| QDA-Miner 3.1 |
author and distributor: Normand Peladeau, Provalis Research
download: full version for 30 days
operating systems: MS-Windows
documentation: manual
description: QDA Miner is an easy-to-use qualitative data analysis software package for coding textual data, annotating, retrieving and reviewing coded data and documents. The program can manage complex projects involving large numbers of documents combined with numerical and categorical information. QDA Miner also provides a wide range of exploratory tools to identify patterns in codings and relationships between assigned codes and other numerical or categorical properties. Documents are stored in Rich-Text Format and support font and paragraph formatting, graphics and tables. The close integration of this software with content analysis and text mining module (WordStat) and statistical software (Simstat) provides a unique support for mixed methods or any project combining the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data.
| QMA - Qualitative Media analysis |
No information available any more.
| Qualrus |
operating system: MS-Windows
author and distributor: Edward Brent, Idea Works, Inc.
download: full version that cannot save, called Qualrus Viewer
documentation: none
description:
- Easy-to-use graphical interface
- Able to analyze multimedia sources including text, graphics, video, and audio (supported formats include rtf, mp3, mpg, avi and more)
- Flexible character-level specification of data segments
- Memos can be attached to any object, including segment, project, source, code, code assignments, link types, link assignments
- Powerful search tool for Boolean and semantic searches
- Graphical network for visualizing relationships among codes, developing theory, and mind mapping
- Project tree for easy overview and navigation within the project
- Automatic backup of data to enhance data security
- HTML output and reports for viewing with standard web browsers and publication on the web
- Merge facility to import data from other projects or merge versions of the same project in group work
- Adopt theoretical framework from one project for use with another entirely different set of data
- No practical limit on number of documents, segments, codes, or memos
- Interactive viewer can be distributed freely permitting others to examine and view data
- Powerful scripting engine
Tatoe, Textbase alpha and Textbase beta were removed.
| RCDQA 0.1.6 RC2 |
author: Ronggui Huang
distributors: Ronggui Huang
download: free software
operating system: MS-Windows, MacOS, Linux - requires R and GTK+ library
documentation: under construction, instructions are available
A R package for Qualitative Data Analysis. It includes a number of standard Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis features. Besides, it is seamlessly integrated with R to some extent, RQDA and R make an integrated platform for both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Some features are:
- Import documents from plain text
- Support non-English documents, Simplified Chinese Character is well-tested under Windows
- Character-level coding using codes
- Memos of documents, codes, coding, project, files and more
- Retrieval of coding, and easily back to the original file (ease the problem of segmentation)
- Single-file (*.rqda) format, which is basically SQLite database. Data are stored in UTF-8, so it should be portable
- Facilitator helps to categorize codes, which is the key to theory building. I deliberately avoid using tree-like categorization
- Facilitator helps to categorize files
- There is a case category, which is crucial feature to bridge qualitative and quantitative research
- Search information about selected case from the Internet vis popup menu
- Temporary delete files and codes
- Rename the files,code, code category, case and others
| The Ethnograph 6.0 |
author: John V. Seidel
distributors: Qualis Research
download: QualisResearch
operating system: MS-Windows
documentation: Quick tour basic in PDF format
The Ethnograph 6.0 for Windows PCs is a versatile computer program designed to make the analysis of data collected during qualitative research easier, more efficient, and more effective.
You can import your text-based qualitative data, typed in any word processor, straight into the program. The Ethnograph helps you search and note segments of interest within your data, mark them with code words and run analyses which can be retrieved for inclusion in reports or further analysis.
First launched in 1985, The Ethnograph was one of the first programs to pioneer computer assisted qualitative data analysis. Since then The Ethnograph has continued to be developed by qualitative data analysts for qualitative data analysts such as social scientists, historians, literary critics, health researchers, business and market analysts, legal researchers and others.
The Ethnograph will handle your project data files and documents whether your data comes in form of interview transcript, field notes, open-ended survey responses, or other text based documents.
| Weft QDA 1.0.1 |
author: Alex Fenton
distributors: Alex Fenton
download: executables/binaries for MS-Windows and Linux, source code
operating systems: MS-Windows, Linux
documentation: manual as PDF-file
Weft QDA (written in Ruby) is a software tool for the analysis of unstructured textual data. It offers a simple interface to generic code and retrieve functionality, and includes a number of other tools that may useful in qualitative analyses. It is open source and currently released under a public domain licence.
New features and improvements in this release include:
- coded text is highlighted in document and category windows
- new code review tool to compare coding of multiple categories
- faster coding and rearranging of categories
- interface improvements for Windows & Linux
- category names can now be in non-latin scripts, eg Chinese (native language support only)
- updated and expanded documentation
- new installer
- fixed several bugs
Mailing lists:
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