NVivo 10 launched

Posted by Cassius
Jun 28, 2012 at 12:11 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>Cassius wrote:
>>Interesting. Do these applications try to do it all automatically,
>or is the user
>>deeply involved in determining the categories and judging what
>belongs in a category
>>and what does not? I expect that a fair amount of judgment and
>intuition would be
>>involved because much of the analysis often would include a fair
>amount of
>>subjectivity.
> >Primarily it is the subjective judgement of the user,
>although usually the user is guided by a theory he or she had chosen that guides the
>attention and recognition of categories. These software work like this:
>1. I’m
>reading a long document (e.g. a transcript of a 2-hr interview).
>2. As I read, I
>highlight sections of text that contain interesting information or answers to my
>research question and mark them by giving them a “code” (a category that describes
>them).
>3. The software aggregates all the quotes with the same “code” into their own
>separate documents, which can be further analysed.
> >So these software are in a way
>for aggregating and organising quotes. The purpose is to discover new patterns in the
>material, the existence of new entities (categories) or new relationships between
>entities.

Thank you for the explanation. Considering the price of the software, isn’t there more to it?

-cassius