Software for Qualitative Data Analysis

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Practical support, training and information in the use of a range of software programs designed to assist qualitative data analysis. Platforms for debate concerning the methodological and epistemological issues arising from the use of such software packages. Research into methodological applications of CAQDAS. See Events Calendar to view forthcoming events and to book a place.

What is the CAQDAS Networking Project?

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/research/researchcentres/caqdas/
Common CAQDAS AnSWR AnSWR is a freeware CAQDAS . ATLAS.ti ATLAS.ti helps you to annotate textual, visual and audio data. It facilitates the categorization process of these types of data and enables you to organize the evolving categories in a (causal) network. http://www.restore.ac.uk/lboro/research/software/caqdas.php

CAQDAS (New Media Methods @ Loughborough)

TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads plain text files (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. This version includes a web-spider which reads as many pages as you want from a particular website and puts them in a TextSTAT-corpus. http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/

TextSTAT :: Niederländische Philologie FU Berlin

Weft QDA - a free, open-source tool for qualitative data analysis

http://www.pressure.to/qda/ Weft QDA Weft QDA is an easy-to-use, free and open-source tool for the analysis of textual data such as interview transcripts, fieldnotes and other documents. The software isn't being maintained or updated, but the current version is available and includes some standard CAQDAS features.

EZ-Text | Software | Statistics and Surveillance | Topics | CDC HIV/AIDS

"CDC EZ-Text" is a software program developed to assist researchers create, manage, and analyze semi-structured qualitative databases. Researchers can design a series of data entry templates tailored to their questionnaire. These questionnaires are usually administered during face-to-face interviews with a sample of respondents. A response to a question may be entered into EZ-Text either as a verbatim transcript (e.g., from a tape recording), or a summary generated from the interviewer's notes. http://www.cdc.gov/HIV/topics/surveillance/resources/software/ez-text/