Personally, I have never had trouble with open source software in academia. I find QC extremely helpful and smack in the face of all those costly CAQDASs. In short, I love it. However, some scholars in my circle have raised concerns over its safety on two points. One: Is the data safe, given that qualitative researchers often study vulnerable populations? Most scholars obviously anonymise their data, and I am pretty sure that QC can't access that data anyway. Two: If the data and my analysis can disappear when I upgrade the software from one version to the next. There was another sporadic concern over whether the data could be stolen. Though I never had any problem, I still wanted to know others' experiences with QC

I'm studying computer science and I need to do my bachelor thesis this year. I was thinking of creating an app, a tool that would come in the assistance of a certain group of people. Having a personal interest in anthropology and taking an extra course in this field, led me to the question: what is a tiresome process that anthropologists have to go through, that I could automate? What kind of app would make anthropologists life easier? Any ideas would be very welcomed, also anything related.

Hi there!

For context: I’m starting out a PhD in Law this year. In the context of my research, I’ll be taking a grounded theory approach to study a pretty large sample size of opinions written by Advocates General before the French Conseil d’Etat.

I’m currently looking for QDA software that I would be able to use for this type of research on legal materials.

My supervisor is on board with my approach but can’t really give any advice on the software to use seeing that it’s quite uncommon for legal researchers here to use data analysis software at all. I don’t want to go “analogue” because I expect to be managing anywhere from 300 to 500 opinions that can range anywhere between 15 and 50 pages each (based on similar research completed under my professor’s supervision).

My university doesn’t provide any particular software, so what do you all use for your qualitative data analysis? Are there any legal researchers here that have used QDAS in the past and successfully used it for our discipline? Are there any softwares that I should avoid?

Thanks Reddit ;)

So I’ve been working on my thesis for quite some time but since I don’t have access to any qualitative / mixed methods software I have to give the version I was using back to my professor. Which is why I am currently looking for alternatives to MAXQDA so I can still work on my data after my thesis and also potentially look back into it during my last weeks of writing. Maybe someone here encountered the same problem? Or does anyone have any experience with free, open source software like Taguette or Qualcoder? And also importing MAXQDA files into those programs?

I need to start using some qualitative data analysis tools for my research and I'm looking at options.

I know some universities offer their students membership to QDA software. Does McGill have anything like that for students?

I came across a page from the library which has QDA tools but they're all open source or free already. Does anyone have experience using the tools listed there (RQDA, QualCoder, QCoder)? How did you like them?

Thanks everyone!

I wanted to look at using R and Rstudio" for qualitative analysis. In the past I tried out RQDA but it seems that it hasn't recently been updated and also that a dependency (GTK+) is no longer available. I am experimenting with tweaks to the installation from github using devtools, but my R fu is weak and I don't hold out much hope.

The alternatives I have seen are really text-mining packages or packates for the analysis of categorical variables, whereas I am looking to analyse interview and focus group data using grounded theory style coding. I am hoping to find an alterative to NVIVO or Atlas.ti (for example).

I would be grateful to hear any suggestions for alternatives to RQDA

Hi folks!

What are your recommendations for qualitative analysis software? I’ve heard good things about Nvivo and MAXQDA. If there is an open source version, that would be ideal, but I’m open to suggestions!

I work in local government and our data analysis team is considering purchasing a qualitative analysis package. The majority of the staff have expertise in quantitative analysis but we are starting to do more with interviews and focus groups. I have more experience than most in my department but by no means am I am expert. I’ve previously worked with Nvivo and Dedoose, but it’s been a few years.

My sense is that we are looking for a simple to use software that will mainly help us organize our thinking and do thematic coding. We will also need to be able to collaborate for the analysis. Many packages I’ve seen offer far more than I think we need. Since we are in government, we also have tight security protocols we need to follow - as an illustrative example, the team can’t use R because of security concerns.

Any recommendations on tools that might meet our needs?

Thanks in advance!

Any alternative for MAXQDA will be apprieciated.

Hello! What is some of the most commonly used qualitative software? I’m currently learning Atlas.ti during my internship, I was wonder what are some of the others you use in your workplace. Thanks!

I am looking to transfer a coding project from Taguette to a more robust CAQDA software. I understand that file format interoperability is a nightmare in this space, but am hoping there’s something out there that works, and have a preference for something with a (relatively) simple user experience. I’m looking into Qualcoder, Atlas.ti, and CATMA, but I am wondering if anyone else has had some success or recommendation in this area.

My team is analyzing open-ended responses to a few questions, and we have a lot of data to sort through. I am wondering how much data we need to code by hand before we can use the power of R to sort our data, based on the categories we have developed. Anyone interested in chatting more? I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. I’m not a student, but I am a researcher that is brand new to R.