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Definition
CAQDAS is used in psychology, marketing research, ethnography, and other social sciences. The CAQDAS Networking project lists the following tools. A CAQDAS program should have:
- Content searching tools
- Coding tools
- Linking tools
- Mapping or networking tools
- Query tools
- Writing and annotation tools
List of CAQDAS software
Free / open source software
- Aquad (GPL licence, since version 7) (Windows)
- Cassandre (Java-based)
- Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis (CATMA) (GPL v3 license) (Java-based desktop version up to CATMA 3.2 for Windows, Mac OS, Linux )
- Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) (web-based)
- Compendium (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- ELAN (Java-based for Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- FreeQDA (GPL2, Java-based)
- LibreQDA (AGPL3 license) (web-based)
- QDA Miner Lite, proprietary license, free version with reduced functionality (Windows)
- RQDA (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- TAMS Analyzer (Open source, Mac OS)
- Transana for audio and video data (GPL2, release packages for purchase) (Windows, Mac OS, Linux (partially))
Proprietary software
- Annotations (Mac OS)
- ATLAS.ti (Windows; Mac OS and iPad announced)
- Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT)
- ConnectedText (Windows)
Web-based software
- Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis (CATMA) (GPL v3 license). CATMA 4 is implemented as a web-based application.
- Dedoose
- LibreQDA (AGPL3 license)
- QCAmap
- webQDA
- FOCUSSON
Pros and cons
Such software helps to organize, manage and analyse information. The advantages of using this software include being freed from manual and clerical tasks, saving time, managing huge amounts of qualitative data, having increased flexibility, and having improved validity and auditability of qualitative research. Concerns include increasingly deterministic and rigid processes, privileging of coding, and retrieval methods; reification of data, increased pressure on researchers to focus on volume and breadth rather than on depth and meaning, time and energy spent learning to use computer packages, increased commercialism, and distraction from the real work of analysis.
See also
- Idea networking
- Computer Assisted Mixed Methods Research Analysis Software
- Multimethodology
- Qualitative economics
- Quantitative research
- Qualitative marketing research
- Qualitative psychological research
- Sampling (case studies)
- Sensemaking
References
- "CAQDAS". Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- "AQUAD website". Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- Dr Andus. "Why use ConnectedText for Qualitative Data
- f4analyse (Windows, Mac OS and Linux)
- HyperRESEARCH (Windows, Mac OS)
- MAXQDA (Windows; Mac OS)
- NVivo (Windows; Mac OS)
- QDA Miner (Windows)
- Qiqqa (Windows, Android)
- Quirkos (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android)
- Saturate
- XSight (Windows)
{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); External link in|title=and|website=|url=(help); line feed character in|title=at position 44 (help) - Banner, DJ; Albarrran, JW (2009). "Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software: a review". Canadian journal of cardiovascular nursing = Journal canadien en soins infirmiers cardio-vasculaires. 19 (3): 24–31. PMID 19694114.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - St John, W; Johnson, P (2000). "The pros and cons of data analysis software for qualitative research". Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing / Sigma Theta Tau. 32 (4): 393–7. PMID 11140204.
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External links
- The CAQDAS Networking Project maintained by University of Surrey offers advice and reviews on various software packages.
- Harald Klein's comprehensive guide to CAQDAS
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