Thomas, one error in what you reported. You said
>Qualrus does not allow for autocoding and Kwalitan is an somewhat
intermediate case.
Actually, Qualrus does allow autocoding. It uses a "autocode paragraphs in
current source" script. This is illustrated in the "Coding Open-Ended
Questions" example project that is distributed with the program and the demo
CD.
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From: "Thomas Koenig" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Comparison between QDAMiner and other software
> At 16:56 04/03/2004, you wrote:
> >Can anyone comment on the new QDAMiner software? I tried it and it is
easy
> >to learn and use and cheaper than other software I have seen. It also
> >offers some cool analysis tools that I did not found in other software
> >(cluster, concept maps, bar charts).
> >
> >How does it compare with other software like Nvivo or Atlas-ti?
>
> As always, we don't know where you are heading with your analysis,
> therefore it is difficult to give any meaningful advice.
>
> Let me, though, offer a few ramblings on QDA-Miner. To be fair, I only
> glanced over it, so I might be in error at times.
>
> If you have loads of files to deal with, then QDA Miner seems to perform
> well. Of all the programs I checked out (ATLAS.ti, Kwalitan, MAXqda,
NVivo,
> Qualrus), QDA Miner was the only one that swallowed my batch of 2626
> soundbite files (webforum postings) in a single operation. When
> *auto*coding the files, only MAXqda could keep up its pace. NVivo did not
> even work with so many files (N6 is the QSR choice for large numbers of
> files) and ATLAS.ti took ages (i.e. 13 Minutes) per coding; Qualrus does
> not allow for autocoding and Kwalitan is an somewhat intermediate case.
>
> The search function of QDA miner is focused on straightforward Boolean
> searches. It does, e.g., AFAIK not allow for placeholders (ATLAS.ti,
> NVivo), fuzzy searches (NVivo), and does not have so many more complex
> search options as ATLAS.ti, NVivo and Qualrus.
>
> It also does not handle multimedia files as parsimoniously as do ATLAS.ti
> or Qualrus, as it -- like most other CAQDAS -- does not accept picture,
> video and sound files directly.
>
> QDA-Miner is directly linked to Simstat, that makes some statistical
> analysis of course easy. Then again, none of the programs gave me any
> headaches in exporting data for SPSS.
>
> If you give some hints, what you need the program for, we might be able to
> give you more precise advices.
>
> Just my 2c
>
> Thomas
>
> --
> thomas koenig
> department of social sciences, loughborough university
> http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/index.html
>
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