MaxQDA or Atlas.ti or Dedoose?

[Marion Nao]

Hi Catharina, 
Leximancer is for text-based analysis and supports Apple OS, as far as I can tell. I haven't tried it myself, but there seems to be a trial version you can play around with to figure out if it's any use for you. (Unfortunately, the site's a bit underinformative on pricing, other than the institutional license subscription. As you said, Dedoose is for multimethod data, but it's actually pretty cheap for individual subscription and also has a one month free trial.)
I usually use NVivo, which can do a fair amount with text (although it's also designed for audio and visual data and cross-coding of the kind of categories that don't interest you, so a lot of its features might be redundant for your purposes).
Hope that's of some help, Marion


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     On Thursday, 25 September 2014, 11:05, Catharina Müller <catharina.muller at UDC.ES> wrote:
   

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Hi everybody,
I am looking for a computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) programme for Mac. I have watched tutorials and played around a bit with MaxQDA, Atlas.ti and Dedoose already. But I am not so sure which is the best for me. I work primarily with business annual reports in pdf format, thus, I have no interview data I want to code for, and organise by, age, gender, etc. Dedoose looks a lot like specialised for that. Atlas.ti was just released for Mac but I find the analysing tools a bit short. And MaxQDA doesn’t seem to be as intuitive as the other two. 
To sum up:
-working on MAC (always on the same computer)-no need to work on project with other researchers-working with PDFs (code text and images)-quantitative and qualitative analysis
If you have any comments, ideas, helpful hints and experience sharing, I would be grateful to read them!
Thanks a lot,
Best,
Catharina




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