Thank you so much, Christian. I will check it all.

Best,

Fernanda

Free programs include Taguette, and QDA Miner Lite, as well as a module in R.

Thanks David L Morgan , can you reccomment any R package for quali?

I believe the name of the R package is RQDA.

Thank you!

I’m using JASP, it is open source, for windows and Mac…

I find Nvivo quite useful and handy

NVivo is quite robust

Thank you all

Hi, I used ATLAS.ti in the past and worked well but I am using MAXQDA now and I think it is easier. Good luck!

I use NVivo. There are lots of tutorials for NVivo on YouTube so you will be able to see what it looks like and what you can do with it before deciding whether to use it.

Perhaps ask your library services whether your university provides any free software for students.

I did a webinar on choosing the appropriate qualitative software program you can access from my YouTube channel bit.ly/CNPwebinar014

There is also a webinar in the same series by Vicky Rampin on free tools for qualitative data analysis here bit.ly/CNPwebinar016

The CAQDAS Networking Project also has reviews of many of the options - all freely available here https://www.surrey.ac.uk/computer-assisted-qualitative-data-analysis/resources/choosing-appropriate-caqdas-package

DiscoverText.com is 100% free for all academic users. There are also free trainings six days a week. On the website you can see a list of more than 300 academic citations of DiscoverText used in published scholarship.

Hi Dr Abwunza,

I am a registered user (student version) for both Atlas.ti 9 & MAXQDA 2022, and both are about the same in conducting QUAL research. The only advantage of using the MAXQDA 2022 version is the capability of conducting a MM mode, importing data even from SPSS to do some form of analysis (code variable stats) and recent addon a useful QTT (Question-themes-theory) section in helping to conduct (Literature review)LR, RQs and ROs.

Both software provides intensive online free workshops and recorded ones via Youtube.

I use MS Excel because it is free/standard in the office. I do not have access to NVivo so I use Excel for coding and counting. I use Pivot Table to check frequency, clean data, compare groups etc. I hope the reference will be useful :)

Meyer, D. Z., & Avery, L. M. (2009). Excel as a qualitative data analysis tool. Field Methods, 21(1), 91-112.

btw, my qualitative data is structured.

Sonia Cheung I also use spreadsheets for many of the mixed methods parts of my work, but when it comes to doing Twitter analysis, I rely on the Twitter display for an authentic annotation/coding experience.

The Case Against Spreadsheets as a Primary Twitter Research Tool

https://vimeo.com/526218014

Question: When is a Tweet not a Tweet? Answer: When it appears in a spreadsheet, or is deleted, or the account has been suspended.

Great to follow, thank you.