DEDOOSE

What is DEDOOSE?

Full support for qualitative and mixed methods

From the outset, Dedoose has always been designed to support researchers, evaluators, and their teams who seek to incorporate qualitative and mixed-method approaches when working with text, audio, video, images, and research and test data.

• Traditional management, extraction/coding and analysis of qualitative data
• Easy integration of qualitative data and everything you've done with them with demographics, surveys, test results and other quantitative data
• Introduce new dimensions into project data using code weighting for an analysis of methods actually mixed with the entire amazing data visualization that accompanies this variety of data in a project.

Intuitive

The tools are useful only when accessible and responsive. There are times when you'll need complex filtering and other features, and Dedoose focuses on ensuring that the learning curve is as shallow as possible. Yes, "superficial", so that you and your team are up to date as soon as possible.

Interactive visualizations and analytics

Dedoose provides a complete set of interactive charts, tables, and charts for:

• Capitalize on the qualitative/quantitative data continuum fully integrated into powerful and informative analytics activities
• Discover and explore surface patterns that are not easily seen otherwise
• Access the underlying rich qualitative data
• Export directly to your local machine to fall into presentations and manuscripts

Media support

Dedoose is ready for you to import all media types into a project for qualitative and quantitative data integration and analysis, including:

• Documents - whether word files, text, pdf, htm or html, Dedoose supports all of them and your data can be in any language
• Images? Of course, bring these jpgs, gifs and all your picture friends
• Audio/Video - Dedoose has specialized desktops and resources to extract, encode, link to transcripts and everything else you'd like to do with your streaming files
• Spreadsheets - straight to the Descriptors desktop, and if you have open and closed data in an xls, xlsx, or csv file, the importer unpacks the data and saves a lot of time by automatically linking

Real science

Three ways to develop reliability among evaluators across your team – if you're doing a good job and can communicate clearly about what you've done, the people you'll hear and be interested in want to know, and if you can convince them, they'll have a lot more confidence in what you've delivered. One way to approach this is to show them by demonstrating consistency and shared understanding between your colleagues and team members through:

• Blind coding - independently extract and tag the content and then clearly see how different members of your team agree and disagree
• Document cloning - to focus more on how coding decisions are made
• The Dedoose Training Center - to formally test the agreement on coding and codify weight/classification decisions with results that include the Kappa correlation coefficient of Cohen and Pearson

System Requirements

Dedoose is best when your Internet connection is strong, your browser, Adobe Flash Player version, and system configuration are aligned.