QDA MINER LITE – FREE QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

QDA Miner Lite is a free and easy-to-use version of our popular computer-assisted qualitative analysis software. It can be used for the analysis of textual data such as interview and news transcripts, open-ended responses, etc. as well as for the analysis of still images. It offers basic CAQDAS features such as:

• Importation of documents from plain text, RTF, HTML, PDF as well as data stored in Excel, MS Access, CSV, tab-delimited text files
• Importation from other qualitative coding software such as Atlas.ti, HyperResearch, Ethnograph, from transcription tools like Transana and Transcriber as well as from Reference Information System (.RIS) files.
• Intuitive coding using codes organized in a tree structure.
• Ability to add comments (or memos) to coded segments, cases, or the whole project.
• Fast Boolean text search tool for retrieving and coding text segments.
• Code frequency analysis with bar chart, pie chart, and tag clouds.
• Coding retrieval with Boolean (and, or, not) and proximity operators (includes, enclosed, near, before, after).
• Export tables to XLS, Tab Delimited, CSV formats, and Word format
• Export graphs to BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF formats.
• Single-file (*.qdp) project format.
• Interface and help file in English, French, and Spanish.

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Special note for Apple Mac users: QDA Miner Lite is a Windows application. Click here for information on ways to run it on a Mac OS computer.

Please note that you cannot import or merge a QDA Miner Lite project into a QDA Miner Trial version, but you can import it into the paid version of QDA Miner. However, merging projects created or edited in QDA Miner Lite is not allowed.