I am conducting my doctoral dissertation mixed methods study (convergent design) and wonder if the QDA Miner is a good tool to analyse qualitative data from semi-structured interviews? I also wonder if this software can be instrumental in comparing quantitative survey data (compatibility with SPSS?) and qualitative data? I would appreciate if you share your observations, comments and suggestions. Thank you!
QDA Miner is a user friendly qualitative data analysis software package for coding, annotating, retrieving and analyzing QDA Miner qualitative data analysis tool can be a good tool analyze interview or focus group transcripts, speeches etc.
I have n't used it. what is really your purpose of using this tool. I have used Rapidminer and Weka and clementine for data analysis.
QDA looks great, but if your inquiry is the use of one analytic application that could easily be used to analyze both qua and quan data inputs, I would rather suggest that you look into NVivo. The newer version of NVivo has new added features previous platforms that allows you to analyze both quantitative and qualitative and even geospatial datasets.
Hemlata and Manas - thank you for your posts.
Jenkins - thank you for your comment. I was not thinking on NVivo before reading your post, as in my mind it is associated with purely qualitative analysis. I will check the new version now...
Also, try considering other analytical environments [Atlas.ti]= new version is cool. They even now have it for tablets so you can code anywhere at anytime. Dedoose, a web-based QDA application that also has quantitative features. Cool, but you will need to pay some monthly fees to be able to use the application via their web-platform. It is also a great tool.
Interesting. I have used Nvivo and found it user friendly. but I have not done comparison betwen qua and quan, so cant comment on that.
good luck ana with your thesis and we will welcome you to the " EXCLUSIVE INTELLECTUALS CLUB" For PhDs. This is what I tell to PHD students as they suffer a lot during their PhDs.
QDA Miner is an excellent tool to analyze qualitative data like interviews. It is fast, easy to use and offers several functionalities to do autocoding (the query by example or cluster extraction are few examples). QDA Miner can import SPSS files and compare quantitative survey data and qualitative data. If you have a large data set, you can use the module WordStat to quickly explore your text data and categorize your text through taxonomies .
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