>Since many years ago I am analyzing my qualitative data material with
>WinMAX. I am very satisfied with this programme, because it is very
>userfriendly, clearly and uncomplicated. If I don't work for a long
>time with WinMAX, it's not a problem to find the necessarly options.
>Especially I like the visualization of the basic functions, the
>complex coding and retrieval functions and the possibility to
>integrate quantitative data material.
>
>Are there any other WinMAX-users? I am interested in the reasons why
>others don't use WinMAX? May be that it is unknown outside from
>Germany? I am very interested in your experiences and your reasons of
>non-using.
Suzanne
Actually there are now several 'cells' of users of Winmax in this country -
Bristol University , Luton, and Roehampton
all have several users - adn I know of at least one multi national team
project, based in this country which is using it, and of course there are
other individual users dotted around the UK - it just may be that its users
are not on qual-software - or not very verbal about it.
I notice in my work that it is very much its the 'user friendly' element
that has appealed to people when they have chosen WINMAX ratehr than other
softwares
One of my favourite things about WinmMAX is its code hierachy and the way
it works - to my mind like a code hierarchy shoudl work -
when you want to retrieve stuff you have coded within a hierarchy - all you
have to 'activate' the top code (or at the level you want) and wham - its
all there - in the segment window adjacent to the code list window - theres
no time spent building a dialogue box carefully to ask for the right
selection of codes, using the correct operator - its just there sitting and
waiting for you. But theres plenty of other things I like about it -
just as there are plenty of things I like about the other s/w's - they all
do some things better, or give you different tools - well I could go on and
on.
Ann Lewins
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Ann Lewins, CAQDAS Networking Project, Dept of Sociology
University of Surrey, GUILDFORD GU2 5XH, U.K
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