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Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS.ti is the very first book designed to guide you step-by-step through your research project using ATLAS.ti. In the book, you will find clear, practical advice on preparing your data, setting up a new project in ATLAS.ti, developing a coding system, asking questions, finding answers and preparing your results. The book features: - methodological as well as technical advice - numerous practical exercises and examples - screenshots showing you each stage of analysis - a companion website with online tutorials and data sets Susanne Friese teaches qualitative methods at the University of Hanover and at various PhD schools, provides training and consultancy for ATLAS.ti at the intersection between developers and users.
Introduction
Introduction
ATLAS.ti belongs to the genre of CAQDAS programs. CAQDAS stands for computer-aided qualitative data analysis software. It is a somewhat lengthy acronym as compared to ‘QDA software’, which can also be found in the literature. The latter stands for qualitative data analysis software and the apparent similarity may be responsible for some of the misunderstandings and misperceptions related to CAQDAS.1 ATLAS.ti – like any other CAQDAS program – does not actually analyze data; it is simply a tool for supporting the process of qualitative data analysis. Computers are generally very good at finding things like strings of characters or coded data segments in a large variety of combinations, but the researcher first needs to tell the computer, by way of coding, which data segment ...
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