Software for qualitative data analysis
A program should have:
- Content searching tools
- Coding tools
- Linking tools
- Mapping or networking tools
- Query tools
- Writing and annotation tools
| Application | Type | License | Source | Last Release | Analyses | OS Supported | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annotations[2] | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Sep 2014[3] | Text | OSX | Coding |
| Aquad | Client | Free - GPL | Feb 2012 | Text | Win | Coding | |
| ATLAS.ti | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Text | Win, OSX, iPad, Android | Coding, Aggregation, Query, Visualisation | |
| Cassandre[4] | Client | Text | All (java-based) | Coding | |||
| Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) | Web-based | Free - GPL | Open | Text | All (web browser) | Coding | |
| Compendium/CompendiumNG[5] | Client | Free - LGPL | Open | Feb 2014 | Text | All (java-based) | Coding |
| Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis (CATMA)[6] | Client (up to version 3.2) | Free- GPL | Open | May 2011 | Text | All (java-based) | Coding |
| Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis (CATMA)[7] | Web-based (since version 4) | Free - GPL v3 | Open | Oct 2014 | Text | All (web browser) | |
| ConnectedText | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Feb 2015 | Text | Win | Coding |
| Dedoose | Web-based | Proprietary | Closed | All (web browser) | Coding, Query, Visualisation | ||
| ELAN[8] | Client | Free - GPL | Open | 10 July 2015 | Video Audio | Win, OSX, Linux | Coding |
| f4analyse[9] | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Mar 2015 | Text | Win, OSX, Linux, iPad, Android | |
| FOCUSSON[10] | Web-based | Proprietary | Closed | All (web browser) | |||
| FreeQDA[11] | Client | Free- GPL | Open | Jul 2012 | Text | All (java-based) | Coding |
| HyperRESEARCH | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Win, OSX | |||
| LibreQDA[12] | Web-based | Free - AGPL3 | Open | All (web browser) | |||
| LibreQDA[13] | Client | Free- AGPL3 | Open | Text | All | Coding | |
| MAXQDA | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Sep 2015 | Win, OSX | Coding, Aggregation, Query, Visualisation | |
| NVivo | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Text | Win, OSX | Coding, Aggregation, Query, Visualisation | |
| QCAmap[14] | Web-based | All (web browser) | |||||
| QDA Miner | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Win | |||
| QDA Miner Lite | Client | Proprietary | Text | Win | Coding | ||
| Qiqqa | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Win, Android | |||
| Quirkos[15] | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Aug 2015 | Text | Win, OSX, Linux,[16]Android | Coding, Query, Visualisation |
| Raven's Eye[17] | Web-based | Proprietary | Closed | June 2015 | Text | All (web browser) | Coding, Aggregation, Query, Visualisation |
| RQDA | Client | Free- GPL | Open | Oct 2014 | Text | Win, OSX, Linux | Coding, Aggregation, Query, Visualisation |
| Saturate[18] | Client | Proprietary | Closed | ||||
| TAMS Analyzer,[19][20] | Client | GPL v2 | Open | Jun 2015 | Text | OSX | Coding |
| Transana | Client | GPL [21] | Open | Sept 2015[22] | Video Audio Text | Win, OSX, Linux (partially) | Coding |
| Visão[23] | Client | Proprietary | Closed | Fall 2015 | Text | Win | Coding, Aggregation, Query |
| webQDA[24] | Web-based | All (web browser) | |||||
| XSight | Client | Proprietary | Closed |
Win |
Pros and cons
Such software helps to organize, manage and analyse information.[25] The advantages of using this software include saving time, managing huge amounts of qualitative data, having increased flexibility, having improved validity and auditability of qualitative research, and being freed from manual and clerical tasks. Concerns include increasingly deterministic and rigid processes, privileging of coding, and retrieval methods; reification of data, increased pressure on researchers to focus on volume and breadth rather than on depth and meaning, time and energy spent learning to use computer packages, increased commercialism, and distraction from the real work of analysis.[26]
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