SAGE - Student Site for Digital Tools for Qualitative Research

Chapter 7

Click on the links below to access the additional resources and reading referred to in Chapter 7, Analysing Textual Data.

7.1 Online QDA description of 26 qualitative methodologies

7.2 University of Surrey’s CAQDAS networking project

7.3 Debates about software for qualitative research

7.4 Companion website for Susanne Friese's (2012) Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS.ti

7.5 Companion website for Corbin & Strauss (2008) Basics of Qualitative Research

7.6 Companion website for Bazeley's (2013) Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo

7.7 Other data analysis tools:

For a list of programs searchable by platform and cost visit the Bamboo DIRT Project. Free programs include:

AnSWR for team-based qualitative analysis, developed by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control in the USA (last updated 2002)
Cassandre developed by Christophe Lejeune at the University of Liege to support humanities and social science researchers (last updated 2011)
Saturate for collaborative qualitative analysis (last updated 2012)
TAMS Analyzer stands for text analysis markup system for ethnographic and discourse research. Is open source software for Macintosh (last updated 2013)

Ethnograph developed by John Seidel, student version for $99
HyperRESEARCH is a cross-platform program developed by Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, T. Scott Kinder, and Paul Dupuis, student version for $199 (updated 2013)
QDA Miner, developed in Canada, mixed-methods focus, offers a free ‘Lite’ version (updated 2013)
Dedoose, released in 2010 as the successor to EthnoNotes, is a cross-platform program with a mixed methods focus, developed by Eli Lieber and Thomas Weisner. $10/month