I started my fieldwork on regenerative food systems in the summer of 2018. I intended to explore what a regenerative food system in arid regions is, what its characteristics are, and what practices people employ. The research began with a literature revie...
Analyzing Qualitative Interviews with MAXQDA in 6 Steps
Most qualitative interviews work with an interview guide that determines the topics of conversation in advance. For this kind of interview, we have developed an analysis method that we call focused analysis of qualitative interviews which we describe in d...
Writing Myself out of the Quarantine Slump: Getting Started with MAXQDA’s Literature Review Function
One day while on Twitter—my social media platform of peace and refuge--, I came across a tweet asking about personal coping mechanisms dealing with writing your dissertation during quarantine. I sat there and thought: Truthfully, how have I been coping? W...
MAXQDA 2020.3 Update Released
We are proud to present the MAXQDA 2020.3 update with a series of improvements, fixes and new features! We are continuously developing MAXQDA to make your research with MAXQDA even more enjoyable. Below are a few highlights of the latest update, but yo...
Embarking on a Journey with MAXQDA through an Energy Efficiency Analysis of the Portuguese Water Sector: Reviewing Literature
Welcome to my first Field Diary Entry! Here I will try to highlight the Portuguese water sector’s significant energy consumption and existing energy efficiency potential that is not properly exploited. This brief framework will help to understand the rele...
MAXQDA Tip of the Month: In-vivo Coding
Did you know there are many different ways to code your data with MAXQDA? With today's tip we want to emphasize one of them – in-vivo coding. What is in-vivo coding? In-vivo coding is a concept drawn from grounded theory- in it, the words or terms used ...
MAXQDA 2020.2.2 Update Released
From new twitter import options to expanded memo features Look forward to more than 100 new features, bugfixes and improvements! The free update “MAXQDA 2020.2.2.” is now available for MAXQDA 2020 users. This article shows you a few highlights that can b...
MAXQDA Photo Contest Winners 2020 and Honorable Mentions
"Nowadays, people are often busy and they probably have no time to look around and see what surrounds them. With my photo I want to show people how harmoniously and surprisingly our beautiful, bewitching world was created!" Medina Karamurzina, a participa...
Webscraping für MAXQDA mit R und Python: Foreneinträge in MAXQDA importieren
Blogbeitrag geschrieben von Thomas Zapf-Schramm. MAXQDA bietet eine Vielzahl von Optionen für den Import von Textdaten in den verschiedensten Formaten. Für den Import von Texten aus dem Internet steht zum Beispiel die Möglichkeit des Downloads von Websei...
MAXQDA’s Unusual Applications: Corpus-Based Linguistic Research for Reconstruction of Historical Somatics
Guest post by Maciej Talaga. Corpus in linguistics refers to a body of documented instances of “real world” utterances, usually in a digitised form enabling processing its contents with computer-based tools. Thanks to their organic nature and size, corpo...