QDA Miner (educational)

QDA Miner is an easy-to-use qualitative data analysis software package for coding, annotating, retrieving and analyzing small and large collections of documents and images. QDA Miner qualitative data analysis tool may be used to analyze interview or focus group transcripts, 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 software, gives you unprecedented flexibility for analyzing text and relating 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 code text or pictures, 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, pollsters, and CRM professionals
• Crime analysts, fraud detection experts, lawyers,  and paralegal professionals
• Journalists, historians and research assistants
• Document management specialists and librarians

KEY AND UNIQUE FEATURES

Intuitive ON-SCREEN CODING AND ANNOTATION OF TEXTS AND IMAGES with features offering greater flexibility and ease-of-use, such as code splitting, merging, easy resizing of coded segments, interactive code searching and replacement or virtual grouping.
Flexible MEMOING AND HYPERLINKING features to annotate documents and images and connect various pieces of qualitative evidence by creating links to other coded segments, cases, documents, files, or web sites.
Advanced GEOTAGGING AND TIME-TAGGING tools to associate geographic and time coordinates to text segments or graphic areas, retrieve coded data 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, a powerful query-by-example search tool that learns from the user, and a unique cluster extraction and coding tool.
Flexible CODING RETRIEVAL TOOLS for extracting coded segments associated with specific codes or code patterns and identifying coding co-occurrences, coding sequences and assessing relationships between coding and numerical or categorical properties.
INTEGRATED GEOCODING to transform references to cities, states, provinces, countries, postal codes, and IP addresses into geographical coordinates. The GISViewer mapping module allows you to create data point maps, distribution maps and heat maps.
IMPORT DIRECTLY from web surveys platforms, social media, major email providers, and reference manager tools
Integrated STATISTICAL AND VISUALIZATION tools, such as clustering, multidimensional scaling, heatmaps, correspondence analysis and sequence analysis, allow one to quickly identify patterns and trends, explore data, describe,  compare and test hypotheses.
Unprecedented TEAMWORK SUPPORT with flexible multi-user settings, a powerful merge feature for bringing together coding, annotations, reports, and log entries of multiple coders as well as an INTER-RATERS AGREEMENT assessment module for assessing coding reliability.
A unique REPORT MANAGER tool allows to store queries and analysis results, tables, graphs, research notes and quotes in a single location. Its outliner design is ideal for organizing findings and interpretations, assisting qualitative researchers in the report-writing process.
A powerful COMMAND LOG keeps track of every project access, coding operation, transformation, query, and analysis performed. It may be used to document the qualitative analysis process and supervising teamwork. It represents a detailed audit trail that helps ensure the transparency of the qualitative research process and enhances its credibility.