Fwd: MaxQDA or Atlas.ti or Dedoose?

[Catharina Müller]

- apologies for cross-posting -

Hi everybody,

Thanks a lot to all the people who have responded to my question about QDA programmes! As some of you have asked me to let them know which programme I finally choose, I am sending out a mail again.

For working on a Mac with pdf files I have decided - after reading the manuals, watching tutorials and playing around with different programmes - to use MaxQDA. I am convinced that Atlas.ti will be great too, in the future, but they have just released the first version for Mac, which doesn’t include all the functions I am looking for, yet. Dedoose looks great, but I don’t want to depend on an Internet connection every time I want to use the programme.

Some of you have mentioned other programmes, but most of them didn’t support Mac or pdf files.

Thanks again, I hope the short summary helps other people on a similar quest.

Have a nice weekend!

Catharina Müller
Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics
linkedin
University of A Coruña, Spain
www.udc.es








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> From: Catharina Müller <catharina.muller at udc.es>
> Subject: MaxQDA or Atlas.ti or Dedoose?
> Date: 25 Sep 2014 12:05:07 GMT+2
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> Reply-To: catharina.muller at udc.es
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> - apologies for cross-posting -
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> Hi everybody,
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> 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. 
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> To sum up:
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> -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
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> If you have any comments, ideas, helpful hints and experience sharing, I would be grateful to read them!
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> Thanks a lot,
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> Best,
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> Catharina
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> Catharina Müller
> Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics
> linkedin
> University of A Coruña, Spain
> www.udc.es
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