MAXDictio
MAXDictio, an add-on software to MAXQDA, is used for analyzing vocabulary, creating dictionaries, and performing quantitative content analysis. It is completely integrated into MAXQDA 2007: all functions are accessible in MAXQDA’s menu bar (MAXDictio is not compatible with MAXqda2).
Functionality
As a dictionary- and content analysis-tool, MAXDictio makes it easy to examine the vocabulary used in a manuscript and search particular text passages or full texts for specific words. The software also highlights vocabulary differences between texts or coded segments of a project. MAXDictio offers many classical quantitative content analysis techniques. It is not a competitive program for performing quantitative data analysis, but rather uses quantitative content analysis techniques to support and enrich qualitative data analysis. If you have had to work with often complicated and frustrating content analysis programs are sure to appreciate MAXDictio.
What are the benefits of MAXDictio?
Some examples: analyzing vocabulary, creating dictionaries, using the coder and exporting results (see the online tutorial).
MAXDictio has proven itself to be a worthy competitor for established content analysis programs like “Textpack” from ZUMA. As a matter of fact, a quick glance at MAXDictio dictionary structure is sufficient to convince all experienced quantitative content analysis program users its power.
MAXDictio has undergone a major revision and its current version, MAXDictio 2007, contains numerous important innovations of the ‘Dictionary’, ‘Word frequencies’, ‘Search items’, and ‘Coder’.
Owners of MAXQDA 2007 and MAXDictio receive a free update!
For an overview of the new MAXDictio functions, please click here.
MAXDictio provides the following functions:
- Word frequencies in the whole text or in marked passages
- Word frequencies in text groups or in text sets which have been put together based on textual criteria
- Free definition of text units (overlappings are possible)
- Editing texts and assigning them to text units is possible at any time throughout the process
- Exportability of the outcomes of the frequency-analysis to MS-Office programs (such as Excel or Word ) and to SPSS, and through use of the Windows clipboard
- Index of selected words of one or more texts
- Possibility of jumping from each index entry to the underlying text passage
- Limitation of the analysis by Go-lists (containing a list of words which should be analyzed exclusively) and Stop-lists (which contain a list of words which should be blocked for analysis)
- Selective analysis by specific criteria, such as the value of socio-demographic variables, filtering by numeric data
- Building of word-based dictionaries
- Transfer of words from the word frequency table into the dictionary (by clicking on them)
- Export and import of dictionaries from MS Office programs (e.g. from Excel)
- Coding using of word-based dictionaries
- Results from the coder as editable and easy to sort Excel-like table
- Further processing of the results in SPSS and Excel
- Creation of a validation file for verification of codes
- A total integration into MAXQDA, which provides access to convenient functions such as “keyword-in-context” or automatic coding of text passages
User comments
"User guide very explicit and explanatory. Overall, a great program for data organization and efficient retrieval of quotes. […]"
(Lisa Baker, Liverpool Women's Hospital; UK)