I just passed my dissertation proposal defense and my committee recommended I use one of these two qualitative data analysis software. What are the pros and cons of each?

If the scope of my project affects your answer, my data will include: 25 interviews of 1-2 hours each and content analysis of roughly 1000 pages of court documents. I will not be coding by keywords, but rather doing line-by-line coding using a thematic approach.

I am unlikely to need to collaborate much given it is an individual project.

Hi all,

I’m curious as to which qualitative software you think is best for text analysis of legal documents, newspaper article and other large, policy-related documents. I have previous experience using NVIVO but I’m worried about it slowing down due to the size of the different (and many) documents I’ll be analyzing. Thoughts on MaxQDA? Others?

Also- open to any suggestions on text- analysis workshops that you recommend.

Thanks!!

I just passed my dissertation proposal defense and my committee recommended I use one of these two qualitative data analysis software. What are the pros and cons of each?

If the scope of my project affects your answer, my data will include: 25 interviews of 1-2 hours each and content analysis of roughly 1000 pages of court documents. I will not be coding by keywords, but rather doing line-by-line coding using a thematic approach.

I am unlikely to need to collaborate much given it is an individual project.

I've been using nVivo a few years and am tired of the difficulty in collaborating with co-authors and just the general lack of quality. Wondering, especially from people who have used nVivo, if you have found a better alternative. I am a Ph.D. student in social science and primarily want simple coding of interview transcripts. If anything can easily include social media then that's a bonus but not required. Thank you!

I have no idea how can someone create such a program with this amount of bugs. it is really impressive and fascinating how they managed to make such horrible software with this many bugs and issues. ANYTHING I DO, ANYTHING makes it crash, from modifying the text to creating simple codes, it keeps loading forever and then crashes. I hate your software and you the developers should be ashamed of it.

FUCK YOU NVIVO

It is killing me

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 ;)

Hey everyone! I’m a researcher working on a collaborative qualitative project with a team using both Mac and Windows, and we’re running into a ton of issues with NVivo 15. We’ve tried both the collaboration and normal cloud features, but we’re dealing with frequent crashes, codes shifting, and trouble seeing what other researchers have done.

This is a pretty large project—1-hour interviews with 15 to 30 participants—so having reliable software is crucial. Based on my research, NVivo seems to be the best option out there, but I’m curious—what do you all think? Are there better alternatives? What features would make a qualitative coding tool truly effective? Has anyone seen AI/LLM-powered platforms that help streamline the coding process? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Hi all,

Have any of you had experience transferring coded interviews from dedoose to other software like NVivo or Atlas.ti? I saw that they are increasing the cost of using Dedoose and I don't think I can afford it. I've also been a student this whole time and they never honor the student discount so I think I'm ready to switch elsewhere. Any tips?

I am conducting a series of interviews and I wish to code them by theme. I have heard that NVIVO is an effective tool for coding qualitative data (like interview transcripts) but it's very expensive. Any advice would be much appreciated!

as the title dictates, does anyone know a user-friendly qualitative data analysis software? I'm also considering the price, and most of what I've found are paid on a subscription basis, but i wonder if there's something out there that's one time payment.

thanks in advance!

hello, everybody!

I am looking for the best option for data compiling on my PhD thesis. My uni is holding a training on MAXQDA and it looks like a user and budget friendly software. Some reddit posts I've seen suggested Nvivo as well. I've seen some others, like atlas.ti and endnote and I wonder which one is the best.

Looking for: discourse analysis and qualitative analysis, mostly.

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!