Quirkos Qualitative Research Blog (Page 4)

Themes, Codes and Buckets: What is Thematic Analysis (TA)?

There are a huge variety of ways we can analyse qualitative data, but perhaps the most commonly applied is known as Thematic Analysis. This is an approach classically described by Braun and Clarke (2006) but is straightforward and intuitive

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Qualitative Coding Systems and the Extended Mind

Sometimes it can seem that our bodies are doing things without us knowing about it. I would struggle to tell someone the PIN number for my bank card, but my fingers know it – they just automatically type the right sequence!

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Starting out in Qualitative Analysis

When people are doing their first qualitative analysis project using software, it’s difficult to know where to begin. I get a lot of e-mails from people who want some advice in planning out what they will actually DO in the software, and how that will help them

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Announcing Quirkos Cloud!

For a long time now, one of the most requested features for Quirkos has been a way to work with remotely stored data, on any device. Researchers frequently switch between computers, laptops and mobile devices, and want to collaborate with people across the world

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Qualitative software and tools for ‘close reading’ in the Digital Humanities

The Digital Humanities movement is a growing paradigm that aims to explore the new possibilities created by the availability of huge archives of data, and powerful digital tools that can explore them rapidly. This allows researchers to explore, connect and interpret vast amounts of data in ways that were not

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How to use qualitative analysis software (QDAS) for data management

A research project is often a big logistical undertaking, qualitative or otherwise. Through literature reviews, developing research questions, grant applications and funding, ethics/IRBs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board], managing co-researchers and supervisors, recruitment, collecting data from respondents, research journals, analysing data and writing up findings, there

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Quirkos 2.1 launches with support for new exchange standard!

Today we are launching a free update for Quirkos which adds support for the new QDA-XML standard which is released publicly today for the first time. This will allow users to bring their coded project data from one qualitative software package to another

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Qualitative case study research

Context: that’s where case study research comes in. Here, you adopt a series of methodologies that are exploring the phenomenon you want to study in context (in vivo / in life) rather than in isolation (in vitro – in a glass tube).

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Memos, notes and line-by-line coding in Quirkos 2

One of the major updates in Quirkos 2 is the new memo system. Now you can just drag and drop a section of text to the memo column, and attach a little note to it. You can add as many notes as you like, and by clicking on them, select

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10 new things in Quirkos 2.0!

This week we are releasing the first major update for Quirkos, Version 2! A huge thanks to all our beta testers who have been putting the new version to the test for the last few months, and sharing their suggestions for improvements.

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Why we will release two versions of Quirkos next week

Next week we will release Quirkos 2.0 on the 31st of October! It’s our first major update in 4 years, and will not only provide a number of major new features, but also sets the platform for a lot more new things to be added in the next

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Quirkos 2 Scottish Homelands Tour

In the run-up to the release of Quirkos 2.0, we are running a series of workshops in Glasgow, Stirling and Edinburgh in October. These are all interactive bring a laptop sessions, where participants can bring their own laptops and data, or use example data sets and follow along. We&

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Announcing Quirkos version 2!

Today we are announcing that a major new version of Quirkos is coming in September! Version 2 will offer big new features that users have requested, including memos, rich text support, new editable reports, an improved interface, and much more.

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Teaching qualitative analysis software with Quirkos

It’s a new academic year, and many professors, lecturers and TAs will be reviewing their course materials and slides for this semester and beyond. Those teaching qualitative methods will also be looking at how to teach qualitative analysis, and wondering about including software as part of that process. While

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10 alternative qualitative methods

At the National Council for Research Methods ‘Research Methods Festival’ last month, Steve Wright (from the University of Lancaster) mentioned in his talk the frustrations he has with students that do the bog-standard ’12 semi-structured interviews’ methodology

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Quirkos v1.5.2 is here!

We are pleased to announce a bug fix release for Quirkos that takes us to version 1.5.2. This is a fairly minor update, but includes 4 bug fixes people had reported:

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What is qualitative observation?

Essentially, observation is a type of, or more likely, a part of ethnography. In ethnography, anthropologists (people who study people) turn their observations of people, cultures and organisations into written field notes (a bit like a research diary). While some of this may be reflexive

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Seeking the greatest common divisor in qualitative coding

This post is based on a talk I gave at ICQI 2018, which itself leads on from a talk from last year on the Entomologies of qualitative coding. Good qualitative data is rich, and detailed - a fertile medium for understanding and interpreting the world. But the detail of the data comes at a price

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Quantitative vs. qualitative research

So this much is obvious: quantitative research uses numbers and statistics to draw conclusions about large populations. You count something that is countable, and process results across the sample. Qualitative methods are more elusive

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The importance of the new qualitative data exchange standard

Last week, a group of software developers from ATLAS.ti, f4analyse, Nvivo (QSR), Transana, QDA Miner (Provalis) and Quirkos were in Montreal for the third international meeting on the creation of a common file format for exchanging qualitative data projects

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Quirkos 1.5.1 is released!

We are happy to announce that the latest version of Quirkos (1.5.1) is now available for everyone to download for Windows, Mac and Linux! As ever, it's a free update that won't effect your licence or projects. Just install over your old version and get going straight away

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Qualitative analysis software for monitoring and evaluation

Developing systems for the monitoring and evaluation of services, interventions and programmes (or programs to use the American English spelling) is a particular skill that requires great flexibility

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Using qualitative analysis software for literature reviews

You’ve probably heard of or even used a reference management software like EndNote, Mendeley or the free and open-source Zotero. However, while these tools are great for doing your references at the end of a project and integrating with Word

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Qualitative coding and analysis

A collection of articles on the analysis and coding of qualitative data

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Qualitative methods blog posts

This series aims to introduce qualitative methods and some of the main approaches in collecting qualitative data.