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

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 4, 2012 at 08:50 AM

Foolness wrote:
>Forgot to add this: My biggest personal critique though is that there is no indication
>in the articles themselves of now no longer needing to read any of your posts in this
>forum related to CT or QDA.
> >For a set of articles of that length, a topic absorbing all
>the things you’ve written here and planting a type of study or paper or summary of all
>that has passed would have been more true to answering the question of why to use CT for
>QDA than what you have written.

Thanks for your comments. You make a lot of valid points and if I was making a living doing software tutorial writing then I would certainly go back and address those issues. However, as this is not my job or business, it is what it is for now, as I don’t have more time to keep rewriting them.

But I’m happy to address any specific questions about using the software and the coding and research process itself. I may add more posts in the future which might clarify some things retrospectively as well.

In the end though I’m afraid it is the prospective interested user who will need to make the effort to make sense of it. This is for a very specialised and narrow (but motivated) audience: for PhD students and other researchers who have a genuine problem of being frustrated with the dedicated CAQDAS tools on the market for a host of reasons (cost, technical rigidity, implicit philosophical bias etc.) and are looking for an alternative.

Having said that, I could imagine other types of users making some sense of it as well for totally unrelated uses that I never thought of.