That may or may not be a part of this tool. Most researchers will also write a codebook or research notes for each QualCode that describes what they refer to. Later on we could get more sophisticated but a simple tool would just let the researcher assign QualCodes and let the quotes be sorted with them, perhaps turning the quotes, codes and filenames into a dataset. As a starting place I don't think we need to be too opinionated for a simple tool.
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Depending on the type of QualCoding you do and the process you're using there are a variety of ways to do this and schools of thought in terms of how to do it. They will often change, lump together, split or re organize these QualCodes as they go through more and more data. interview transcripts, field notes or notes you write up about your experiences in the field, documents written by people you are studying) on the right the researcher has come up with QualCodes which in this case are one word descriptions of how to categorize the quote on the left.Ĭreating these Qual Codes is an iterative process for a qualitative researcher. On the left is text (think of this as any textual qualitative data e.g. But I've taken a screenshot from the chapter that I think illustrates what coding for Qual researchers is: Don't get too bogged down with the details of how she does it as there are a variety of schools of thoughts on how to do it. Maybe I'll use the word QualCodes to distinguish in this description?Ī decent overview would be this Saldana chapter. I'd have to think about how best to talk about it in a world where R folks use the word coding. Yes! Thank you let me see if I can do a bit of explaining - I realize the word coding is a problem in this, but really, this is what Qual researchers call it. I’m a noob R coder, but I do love mixed methods and R and know a lot of folks who would love to find a solution. This is just an idea, I’d love more ideas/advice/thoughts on how to manage something like this.Īlso, IANA developer. It’d be simple, it wouldn’t do all the things one might want but it would be a starting place. Then an R package would pull out the quotes with the codes attached and create a dataset from a text file, possibly also with the text file name as a variable. One idea would be to use some form of markdown-like syntax to use with text files that would indicate the coding of quotes within the text.
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But if we had a straightforward way to yank quotes out of a text file, code them and then dump all of that into a dataset, I suspect people would happily use it so that they don’t have to shell out $$$ for a an industrial grade coding tool to do a simple text analysis project. There are complicated things you can do with those codes, there’s the issue of concatenated codes or multiple codes and there are more things to worry about once you have the codes etc. Most of what folks need when doing qual research is a way to highlight text and code it. Can we please just make an open source paring knife for qualitative coding? I’d love to see something where the data analysis is more reproducible and open source. Cons: It's only available for macs and is not being further developed, it’s not open source and it’s a GUI.
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I’ve started using the mac program Annotations to do basic, small scale coding projects. For most of what people need when doing basic qualitative analysis, this can be like bringing an industrial grade shredder when all you need is a paring knife. None of these are open source, all of them cost a lot of money. There are a myriad of text coding tools out there, many of which are quite sophisticated and complex (NVIVO, Atlas TI, MAX QDA). I could be missing something (please tell me if I am!) but I rarely have seen anything that is open source, uses R and actually works to help with coding. I know that RQDA exists, but I’ve never gotten it to work and it appears it hasn’t been updated since 2012. I would love to see a lightweight, non GUI, open source qualitative coding tool.