What is CAQDAS?
Stands for:
Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Examples of software:– Atlas-ti – Winmax– NVivo– NUDIST
• largely unstructured• mostly text-based:
– transcribed interviews– transcribed discussions– field notes– other written documents (e.g.
observations and records of meetings etc.)
Nature of qualitative data
Tasks involved
• Defining concepts• Mapping the range, nature and dynamics
of phenomena• Creating typologies • Finding associations• Seeking explanations• Developing new ideas, theories or
strategies
[Ritchie and Spencer (1994)]
Coding
• Recording your judgement about how chunks of your document are related to an idea, theme, or category
• Various types:– creative: tentative ideas or thinking aloud– descriptive: storing and sorting data– citation: to identify illustrative quotes
How can CAQDAS help?
Helps you to:
– manage data (especially large quantities)
– classify your data
– stay close to your data
– interrogate the data
– Visually display
“Archiv fuer Technik, Lebenswelt und Alltagssprache“
Translated: archive for "technology, the life world and everyday language“
The extension "ti" (pronounced TEE EYE) stands for “text interpretation”
Project ATLAS (1989-1992) of Technical University of Berlin Is the "birthplace" of a first prototype of the software
What does the acronym ATLAS.ti stand for?