qualitative research

Free and Open Source QDAS: You have nothing to lose but your licence fees!

Categories News & Events, PythiaQDA, Upcoming

I’ll be doing a seminar on why proprietary software is hindering innovation in qualitative analysis and using the design philosophy of PythiaQDA to illustrate the revolutionary potential of free software as an alternative. Basically, the seminar is an excuse for me to bring together some of my favourite topics – qualitative research, free software, Marxism, the horrors of NVivo, and my plans for PythiaQDA. If interested, there’s an Eventbrite page …

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How to use a Word macro to fix interview transcripts for auto-coding in NVivo

Categories Software, Tutorials

Within NVivo, and likely other QDAS packages as well, it is possible to use the structure of interview transcripts for auto-coding. Basically, what auto-coding does is go through the transcript and using criteria specified by the user assigns text to chosen nodes (further explanation of auto-coding and how to do it in NVivo is available on the NVivo help website). This can be useful to separate out the different speakers …

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