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Douglas Ezzy wrote: > This, I think is a fascinating debate. > > Thomas wrote: > > >I am very interested in what real users of the tools think > >about their appropriateness as outlined in the article. Are ATLAS.ti users > >of the more chaotic "interconnected" and visual type and are Nud*ist users > >more rigid, sequential and categorized? > > Actually, I'd like to put the question the other way. > Do the users think that ATLAS.ti encourages them to think in a more > chaotic, interconnected, visual way? Are Nudist users encouraged to be > more rigid, sequential, and categorical? I for one have been frustrated > with the some what over structured nature of NUDIST (Unfortunately my > choices are limited as a Mac user). > I do agree to both of these: I am a chaotic interconnected visual Atlas.ti type, but a Nudist user, and sometimes frustrated with the some what over structured nature of Nudist. However, Nudist is a blessing to me: it forces me to put my chaos in order, and at the same time its rigid structure is a challenge to me: it forces me to look for new, creative ways of presenting my data. The package is, anyway, only a structure, or skeleton, and the limit for the contents is not really the package but your imagination. > >I think that there are some good reasons for using different packages. > >The Ethnograph embodies the developer's ideas about qualitative data > >analysis. > >They may or may not suit you. > >You first have to figure out what you want to do (how to go about data > >analysis etc.), > >Then see what packages are out there, > I think it is also possible to make the package suit your needs. Irma Rantala U' of Kuopio, Finland %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%