Lyn and Birrell,
Let's not loose touch with the context, I was talking and inquiring about a
software to assist with qualitative data anaylis, thus a tool and not a
method for qualitative analysis. This is one of the tools I am going to use
to organise the multitude of raw data in different forms: written, visual,
audio, and audio visual; so I need a software which is inclusive of all
different types of data. I know that with NU*DIST you can incorporate other
softwares for audio visual data but I don't want to spend all my time
exploring softwares but data (I am also not a desk researcher). So my
mention of "flexibility, creativity, visual and non-linear" should be seen
in this light, it goes without saying that the way to look at data and to
analyse them is up to the researcher.
I am not a technophobe, but I am pragmatic and I live with my time
Thanks and have a laugh, read "The Innocent Anthropologist"!!!
Babeth
BvLF
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> From: Birrell Walsh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Help in choosing a software package?
> Date: 14 March 2000 16:52
>
> Lyn Richards of QSR responded to my praise of a product other than hers
> by saying
>
> > it occurred to me that "flexibility, creativity, visual, non-linear"
work comes from researchers, not software.
>
> First, she could have said something about me coming from the shallow
> end of the gene pool. But no, she just raised the level of the
> discussion. When kindness and intelligence travel together, they are
> quite something, aren't they? Wish I had that mix in my temperament.
> One of the advantages of choosing the products of her company (NUD*IST
> and NVivo) is that you get to keep her company.
>
> And her point is very accurate, in my experience. I was showing someone
> Atlas the other day (Sorry, Lyn!) and after the demo the viewer said,
> "Oh, I though the software FOUND the themes." All these software
> products are basically devices for keeping track of what you find. The
> finding is up to you.
>
> Birrell Walsh
> MicroTimes
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