Udo
You don't have to sell me on WinMax. I love it. But NUDIST's new Nvivio has
some features which I would love to see in the next version of WInMax, like
the abililty to edit texts and the ability to create hyperlinks from one
part of text to another part of the same or different text. One thing I love
about Winmax is the simplicity of the program itself. I do a lot of analysis
of CHinese text and can use Winmax with miost CHinese shell programs (like
twin bridge and rich win) with only a little corruption of the Chinese text.
Other programs I've tried this with like AtlasTI turn my Chinese text into
rubbish.
Rodney
----- Original Message -----
From: Udo Kuckartz <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: Nudist and NVIVO
> Rodney,
> thank for bringing WINMAX into the discussion. I would like to correct
> your statement, that WINMAX can't do as much as NUDIST. In a new review
> of software for text analysis published by ZUMA the authors, Melian
> Alexa and Cornelia Zuell, write:
> "WINMAX is a program which supports theory building and a large number
> of requirements for qualitative text analysis: text management and
> retrieval, coding, memo writing, hierarchical
> organisation of coding scheme. We found the program easy to learn and
> use. Its flexible and clear-cut arrangement of different information
> 'units' in four different windows, i.e. the working text window, the
> project and text manager, the coding scheme and the coded text segments
> manager, keeps the user close to her text and codes and assists in
> maintaining an overview at the coding and analysis process" In deed,
> there are couple of useful functions like the possibility to attach a
> relevance-score to coded segments, that are not available in NUDIST and
> NVIVO too.
> For anyone who is interested in qual data analysis it may be interesting
> to read
> this review.
>
http://www.zuma-mannheim.de/publications/periodicals/zuma-nachrichten/zuma-n
a-spezial.htm#zn-5
> Udo Kuckartz
>
> Rodney Jones wrote:
>
> > I've been using a program called WinMax. It can't do quite as much as
NUDIST
> > and it's newer version NVivio, but for ease of use it's great. It's
about as
> > difficult to use as microsoft window's explorer. And it has some good
> > features like interface with statistical programs and capacity to share
work
> > easily. For anyone who is new to computer aided qual data analysis it's
> > perfect.
> > Rodney Jones
> > City University of Hong Kong
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Birrell Walsh <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 5:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: Nudist and NVIVO
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas Muhr - Scientific Software Development wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just to counter the false impression that the qual-software list is
> > > > essentially a QSR tools list and that the only tools to consider are
> > either
> > > > Nudist or NVivo, I'd like to encourage all to discuss comparative
issues
> > on
> > > > a broader scale including other great software already out there.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas is modestly not mentioning his own product, Atlas/ti. It
already
> > > has networks and many of the features spoken of for NVivo. I know --
I
> > > just finished a dissertation in eight months using Atlas. It is very
> > > impressive; it nice balances left- and right-brain styles in one
> > > package.
> > >
> > > Birrell Walsh
> > > MicroTimes
> > >
>
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