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Sue, Christina Silver and I are currently creating a comparative document - it will be up on the web pages of the CAQDAS Networking Project shortly - listing distinctive functionality of each software etc., If you woudl like that section of the file where I list the distinctive asepcts of the functionality of Hyperresearch with a bit more detail and graphics- get in touch with me - PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY BUTTON - [log in to unmask] ...meanwhile here are some general comments about HyperResearch - though the comments are not aimed at Mac users especially - but its built for MACs and PC's HyperResearch - general comments - The unit of the analysis is the 'case' not the File, any number of files can be referenced to a case (or to any number of cases) - this means files are not hard wired to cases, so you need to take care you uare in the correct case, when you code a passage within one file. When in coding mode the user must always be aware what case is open. - The hypothesis tester and the 'Themes' which can then be assigned to cases as a result, provide an understandable and clearly visible way of categorising cases by higher concepts. The fact that further hypothesis tests can include these 'themes' as criteria for selection underlines the importance of understanding how at this stage, the case increasingly becomes the unit of analysis (though of course you may only have one file in each case) - Interactivity and hyperlinks between case cards, reports, annotations is very good. One click or at most a double click provides access to the whole file with relevant data highlighted. - The report builder - and the subsequent reports are unusual and very useful. The user has complete control about how much information is included in the report. In the report itself, the coded segments are hyper- linked to source text (one click) whether the actual text of the segment is included in the report or whether its just a listed reference to the segment. - The code map is cumbersome to use, but acts for a different purpose to other mapping tools mentioned. It mainly acts as a filtering /searching device. However its use to graphically describe relationships is limited since currently you cannot have more than one code map at a time. cheers Ann Lewins Ann Lewins, Manager Christina Silver, Resource Officer CAQDAS Networking Project Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey GUILDFORD GU2 7XH, UK email: [log in to unmask] OR [log in to unmask] CAQDAS web site: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/ Tel +44 (0)1 483 68 94 55 Fax +44 (0)1 483 68 95 51 DISCUSSION GROUP qual-software : join information etc see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qual-software.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAQDAS NETWORKING PROJECT funded by the ESRC Research Methods Programme to support the use of software in qualitative data analysis; co-directed by Nigel Fielding, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey and Ray Lee, Professor of Social Research Methods at Royal Holloway, University of London ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Crawford" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Re: HyperResearch > Sue: > > I can't say what it's like to use HyperResearch in the Mac environment, but > I've used HyperResearch and N6 in the Windows environment and I felt that > N6 was less cumbersome to use for some aspects, like importing text > documents and doing reports, but I am biased because I learned N6 first. I > didn't feel that HyperResearch really was that much of an improvement for > what I didn't like about N6. As always, since everyone has different > analytical needs, different software works best for different people. I > have yet to find a QDA package that meets all of my needs perfectly. > > As for HyperResearch itself, it was easy to learn, easy to use, and did > what I needed it to, and I didn't have any support issues. > > Rebecca Crawford > > > > > > At 01:29 PM 3/19/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >As has been noted on this site before, developers of qualitative data > >analysis software provide very little support for Mac users. Other than > >the old NUD*IST (N4 by QSR), I can only find reference to HyperResearch > >as available for Mac. > > > >Has anyone used it? Any opinions that will allow me to compare > >HyperResearch with N4? > > > >I much appreciate your help. > > > >Sue Mutchler >