FEATURES

Manage your codebook

Creating a codebook is an important step in a qualitative data analysis project. QDA Miner provides dedicated tools that help you create and manage your codebook in a creative way:

• Easily create and edit a codebook.
• Assign a color and a memo to a code.
• Associate a list of keywords to code to easily retrieve text segments that contain those keywords.
• Dictionaries created using WordStat may be imported into QDA Miner and transformed into codes and categories.
• Save your codebook on disk in a separate file so it can be imported and used for another project.

Perform on-screen coding

Code text segments and images with an intuitive qualitative tagging process:

• Use on-screen coding and annotation of texts and images with easy drag and drop assignment of codes to text segments and images.
• Use the grid view mode that provides a convenient and very efficient way to code open-ended questions or short comments.
• Several features offer greater flexibility and ease-of-use, such as code splitting, merging, easy resizing of coded segments, interactive code searching and replacement, or virtual grouping.
• Add hyperlinks to text selection or coded segments so you can move to a web page, file, another case in your project, or other coded or uncoded text segments.
• Display a graphical overview of the coding of your current document to get a quick glimpse of the spatial distribution of the coding.

Speed up your coding

Code your documents more quickly and more reliably with seven text search and retrieval tools:

• The Keyword Retrieval tool can search for hundreds of keywords and key phrases related to the same idea or concept, allowing you to locate all references to a single topic.
• The Section Retrieval tool is ideal to automatically retrieve and code sections in structured documents.
• The Query by Example tool can be trained to retrieve text segments having similar meanings to the examples you feed in.
• The Cluster Extraction tool will group similar sentences or paragraphs into clusters and allows you to code these using a flexible drag-and-drop editor.
• The Code Similarity search will retrieve all text segments similar to those that have already been coded. One may even search for items similar to codes defined in previous coded projects.
• The Date and Location extraction tool is ideal to quickly locate and tag references to dates or geographic locations.

Analyze, visualize, explore

• Use an interactive word cloud and word frequency table to obtain words frequency on any document variable or on results of retrieval operations (text, coding, section or keyword retrieval) as well as for a single document or for text displayed in the grid view.
• Analyze codes frequency, explore connections between codes using Cluster Analysis, Link Analysis, Sequence Analysis or Multidimensional Scaling,
• See the relationship between variable values and codes using Crosstabs, Correspondence Analysis, or Heatmaps.
• Compute statistical tests such as Chi-Square, Pearson Correlation, and so on, to help you identify the strongest relationships. No need to purchase a separate statistical software.
• Create a grid containing all coded text segments and/or comments and get a compact view of coded material using the Quotation Matrix.

Plot events using GIS Mapping and Time Tagging

All these innovative features make QDA Miner the most powerful geotagging qualitative tool on the market:

• Associate geographic and time coordinates to text selection or to any coded text segment or graphic area, allowing one to locate events both in space and time.
• Geographic coordinates can be imported from KML or KMZ files or cut from Google Earth and pasted into QDA Miner. One may then easily jump from a geo-link to Google Earth.
• A flexible link-retrieval tool may be used to filter and select relevant geo-linked or time-tagged events and display them either on a geographic map or a timeline.
• In QDA Miner, users can retrieve coded data, based on time and location, and plot events on timelines and maps.

Use the integrated geocoding service

Get unparalleled teamwork support

QDA Miner supports teamwork in highly effective ways. Dedicated functions make collaboration an easy task:

• Enhanced teamwork support features like a flexible multi-users settings tool allow you to define for each team worker what they can or cannot do.
• Get assistance in duplication and distribution of projects to team members.
• A powerful merge feature bringing together, in any single project, codings, annotations, reports, and log entries of different coders working independently.
• A unique inter-rater agreement assessment module may be used to ensure the coding reliability of multiple coders.

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Export and share results

In QDA Miner, you can easily create presentation-quality graphics such as bar charts, pie charts, bubble charts, and concept maps, and save them as an image (png, jpeg or BMP, WMF, EMF). Tables with statistics can also be easily exported to disk in different file formats including Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, XML, and delimited ASCII files, allowing the data to be further analyzed using a statistical program. QDA Miner statistical tables can export statistics directly to SPSS, Stata 8 to 15 or Tableau Software.