{"id":55,"date":"2010-05-13T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-06-03T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T04:23:18","slug":"choosing-qualitative-data-analysis-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Qualitative data analysis software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having finished the data collection for my current project, I&#8217;m ready to begin the next phase of focused analysis. \u00a0This puts me squarely in the market for qualitative data analysis (QDA) software. \u00a0In past projects I used\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperqual.on-rev.com\/hyperqual\/\" target=\"_blank\">SuperHyperQual<\/a>, which was a good starter tool, easy to learn and effective for straightforward coding &amp; tagging in a small data set. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m looking for something a bit more powerful. \u00a0I need a tool that accommodates a wide variety of data formats, since my data set includes audio recordings, field notes, interview transcripts, news articles, opinion posts, manuals, and screenshots of online interactions. \u00a0The main functionality I need is organizational; the tool should be able to help me archive, code, and link my materials. \u00a0It should allow for multiple tags and codes attached to the same piece of data, and if it could generate summaries\/reports in multiple formats that would be a big plus.<\/p>\n<p>And if it&#8217;s not asking too much, it should be relatively easy to learn, and\u00a0(here&#8217;s the deal-clincher) Mac-compatible.<\/p>\n<p>Given this, what qualitative data analysis software package should I invest in?<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.content-analysis.de\/software\/qualitative-analysis\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> has a nice overview of\u00a0\u00a0a number of popular QDA programs, some of which can be used on a Mac. \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eval.org\/resources\/qda.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> site, too. \u00a0Once I&#8217;ve tested some of them out, I&#8217;ll report back here.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, what QDA software do you recommend, and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having finished the data collection for my current project, I&#8217;m ready to begin the next phase of focused analysis. \u00a0This puts me squarely in the market for qualitative data analysis (QDA) software. \u00a0In past projects I used\u00a0SuperHyperQual, which was a good starter tool, easy to learn and effective for straightforward coding &amp; tagging in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}