Progam with QDA Qualitative Data Analysis features? Coding/tagging blocks of text?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 14, 2012 at 08:34 AM

Peter wrote:
>this might interest you (cords or no cords):
>http://savageminds.org/2010/07/26/qda-or-not-qda/

Excellent discussion; an anthropological case study in itself :-)

“The problem with Evernote is that you are limited to tagging at the note level. With Atlas.ti or NVIVO you can tag individual words if you are so inclined. They are an order of magnitude more flexible than Evernote.” I think this describes quite well the importance of “entities” (to use Bill/MadAboutDana’s term) in information management. I’d say that most of the software we talk about here works at a much higher level—whole texts for 2/3 pane info managers, paragraphs for outliners.

So it seems that if you want to do QDA, you should probably resort to QDA software.

By the way, the eval.org GDA S/W resource mentioned somewhere in the discussion by Jeremy Trombley does not work, but this one does http://www.eval.org/Resources/QDA.asp