MaxQDA or Atlas.ti or Dedoose?

[Catharina Müller]

- apologies for cross-posting -


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





Catharina Müller
Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics
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University of A Coruña, Spain
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