Niklas
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I’d be curious to hear from those who have used MaxQDA and NVivo to hear they thoughts on these. I have decided to use my research funds to buy one of these but I am not sure which one. Cost-wise, they are about the same. MaxQDA does have the benefit of being a bit more familiar to me after our week long crash course, but NVivo seems to be a bit more powerful in terms of cluster analysis and the like (without going to outside software).
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Christopher Lynn
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I just found out our College of Ed has a whole qual analysis lab outfitted with NVivo & use it extensively. Might check out yours before committing funds. They offered to train us in NVivo & give full access, so if I just buy MaxQDA for my lab, all bases are covered. Also, just hired a linguist from U of Wisconsin-Madison where Transana was developed & has tons of experience with it, so will be able to learn more about that too.
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Niklas
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It appears that UVA has a site license for Nvivo 8–not 9–but that you still have to pay to use it. Seems a bit stingy. I checked out Transana and that looks good for audio/video, but not as easy as MaxQDA for text.
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Lance Gravlee
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The CAQDAS Networking Project at the University of Surrey has a great set of resources for choosing text analysis software:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/research/researchcentres/caqdas/support/choosing/
You might also want to consider Dedoose (http://www.dedoose.com/), which has a subscription-based pricing model. The fact that it’s web-based has some advantages for teaching. Amber and I are thinking about using it for the online version of our course next summer.
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Niklas
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Thanks, Lance. That’s a great resource. I looked into Dedoose but I am not sure I could live w/o off-line access (in US, yes, but not when actually in “the field” in WA). It also seems like cost could easily pile up if you use it for multiple projects. But I will give the trial a spin.
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