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?