Qda Miner

What is Qda Miner?

QDA Miner - Mixed Method Solution for Qualitative Analysis

QDA Miner is an easy-to-use qualitative data analysis software package for encoding textual data, annotating, retrieving, and reviewing encoded data and documents. The program can manage complex projects involving many documents combined with numerical and categorical information. QDA Miner also provides a wide range of exploratory tools to identify patterns in encodings and relationships between assigned codes and other numerical or categorical properties.

QDA Miner is a perfect companion for our WordStat content analysis and text mining module.

QDA Miner is an easy-to-use qualitative data analysis software package for encoding, annotating, retrieving, and analyzing small and large collections of documents and images. The QDA Miner qualitative data analysis tool can be used to analyze transcripts of interviews or focus groups, legal documents, journal articles, speeches, even entire books, as well as drawings, photographs, paintings, and other types of visual documents. Its seamless integration with Simstat, a statistical data analysis tool and WordStat, a quantitative content analysis and text mining module, offers unprecedented flexibility to analyze text and relate its content to structured information, including numerical and categorical data.

Who uses QDA Miner?

QDA Miner qualitative data analysis software can be used by anyone who needs to encode text or images, annotate, search, explore and extract information from small or large collections of documents and images, including:

·          Researchers in social sciences, medicine and psychology.

·          Sociologists, political scientists and ethnographers.

·          Business intelligence analysts, market researchers, researchers and CRM professionals.

·          Crime analysts, fraud detection experts, lawyers and paralegal professionals.

·          Journalists, historians and research assistants.

·          Specialists in document management and librarians.

Qda Miner - Key features

QDA Miner offers higher levels of computational assistance for qualitative coding, analysis and reporting than any other qualitative data analysis software on the market today:

Intuitive on-screen encoding and annotation of text and images with features that offer greater flexibility and ease of use, such as code splitting, merging, easy resizing of encoded segments, searching and replacing interactive codes, or virtual grouping.

Flexible memoing and hyperlinking functions for annotating documents and images and connecting multiple pieces of qualitative evidence creating links to other encoded segments, cases, documents, files, or web sites.

Advanced Geotagging and Time-tagging tools to associate geographic and time coordinates with text segments or graphical areas, retrieve data encoded based on time or location, and plot events in space and time, create dynamic maps and interactive timelines.

Unique computer assistance for coding with more than seven text search tools, including keyword search, section retrieval, powerful query tool for example learning from the user, and a unique cluster extraction and encoding tool.

Flexible coding recovery tools to extract coded segments associated with specific codes or code patterns and identification of coding co-occurrences, encoding sequences, and evaluation of relationships between encoding and numeric or categorical properties.

Integrated statistical and visualization tools, such as grouping, multidimensional scaling, heatmaps, match analysis, and sequence analysis, allow you to quickly identify patterns and trends, explore data, describe, compare, and test hypotheses.

Unprecedented teamwork support with flexible multi-user configurations, a powerful merge feature to gather encoding, annotations, reports, and log inputs from multiple encoders, as well as a evaluator-to-evaluate evaluation module to assess coding reliability.

A unique report manager tool lets you store queries and analysis results, tables, charts, search notes, and quotes in one place. Its sketch design is ideal for organizing discoveries and interpretations, assisting qualitative researchers in the reporting process.

A powerful log command that keeps track of access to each project, operation coding, transformation, querying and analysis performed. It can be used to document the qualitative analysis process and supervise teamwork. It represents a detailed audit trail that helps ensure the transparency of the qualitative research process and increases its credibility.

Benefits

More computer assistance in coding

QDA Miner offers more computer assistance for coding than any other qualitative research software on the market, allowing you to encode documents faster, but also more reliably. Other qualitative search tools often offer a single text search tool for extracting phrases or paragraphs containing specific words or phrases (what we call Boolean search). QDA Miner offers not just one, but seven text search and retrieval tools, allowing you to get more reliable encoding in less time. Let's look at some of these:

·          The keyword recovery tool can search in a single pass for hundreds of keywords and key phrases related to the same idea or concept, allowing you to find all references to a single topic, no matter which words were used to express that idea.

·          The Section Recovery tool is ideal for automatically retrieving and marking sections in structured documents, allowing, for example, to quickly attach code, transform transcripts of interviews or focus groups, or encode a specific section into a collection of reports that share the same structure.

·          The Query for Example tool can be tied to the retrieval of text segments with meaning similar to the examples in which you feed. Expand and refine your search based on relevance feedback provided by you.

·          The Cluster Extraction tool will group similar phrases or paragraphs into clusters and allow you to code them using a flexible drag and drop editor. It is very useful to quickly encode large amounts of short text items such as open replies, Twitter feeds, and customer feedback. A real timesaver!

·          Code similarity search will retrieve all text segments similar to those that have already been encoded, allowing you to identify sentences or phrases that you may have missed. It can also be used to speed up the encoding of partially encoded projects. You can even search for items similar to the codes defined in previous coded projects.

·          The date and location extraction tool is ideal for quickly locating and marking references to events or geographic locations. You can then attach specific codes, geotags, or time marks to the recovered items.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768

Supported operating systems

Mac OS X 10.5x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow  Leopard), Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB of RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OO