Kirke wrote:
> Can you give me any help and guidance, in particular for:
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> The average price of these packages in general (I believe it is about #400). I need this to show that I am not going for an unreasonably expensive product when I make my recomendations.
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> Any package that is particularly good for sociological/anthropological analysis of unstructured data.
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> Any questions that I should be asking but might not have thought up yet.
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> I would love to hear from you but if you are too busy to deal with a personal request like this then I will understand!
There are many software programs that support qualitative data analysis, for an overview look at http://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/home/klein/textanae.htm This links you to all the packages I know, and also to ftp sites where you can obtain test and/or demo versions of software. Nudist ist the most sold one worldwide, but choosing software is monkey business. Get the Weitzman/Miles book to guide you through the basics, these chapters are pretty good to get an
overview was is possible and what the backgrounds are. Beware: there is no best program, it is up to you what you want to achieve, and then choose the appropriate software. If you just need a text retrieval program, get WinMax, this is easy to use and much more user friendly then NUDIST. If you want to have an hypothesis tester, look at HyperResearch or Aquad. Another good choice is atlas/ti, but this is not available for the Mac. I did not have time to have a look
at the new version of The Ethnograph 5.0. Many programs are now available through Sage scolari. Of couse there are many other programs that I could recommend you, these are just the ones I remember from my memory. If you follow the text analysis page mentioned above, I am sure you get an impression what is on the market, and may be you find the program that fits your needs best.
If anything remains unclear, feel free to contact me personally.
Harald Klein
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Dr. Harald Klein
Friedrich Schiller University
Department of Sociology
07740 Jena
Germany
Tel.: +49 3641 945543 or +49 172 9421627
Fax: +49 3641 945542
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