Guest Post by Amélie Dumarcher. Large sets of qualitative data: advantage or constraint? Verbal and textual data are essential in social science research. However, the exploration of large data corpora requires significant investments, both in time and ...
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Understanding Changing Conceptions of Health using MAXQDA – Interview and Focus Group Analysis Example
Guest post by Jessica Penney. Welcome to Part 2 of 3 of my fieldwork diary entries! In this entry, I will discuss how I used MAXQDA 2018 to analyze the data I collected. In my next post, I will discuss how MAXQDA allowed me to tailor conference presentat...
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Thematic Content Analysis with MAXQDA: Analyzing Soviet Confectionery Factory Newspapers
Guest post by Natalia Soloshchenko. This article provides an overview of my research on the Soviet food industry. More specifically, my research focuses on looking at newspapers published by confectionery companies in Soviet-era Moscow to find trends in ...
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How to Present Fieldwork Data Analysis Results with MAXQDA
Guest Post by Lukas Maximilian Müller. While my last two fieldwork diary entries addressed the main method used in my research – causal process tracing – this one will discuss how MAXQDA is not only helpful in carrying out data analysis, but also a very ...
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Educational Research with MAXQDA
This is a guest article written by Dr. Wakako Fushikida, an Associate Professor at University Education Center, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and Professional MAXQDA Trainer. My research interest is relationships among learning environment, members’ cog...
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Fieldwork Across Diasporas – Early Fieldwork Analysis Phases and MAXQDA
Guest Post by Melinda González. This is my first fieldwork diary entry about my experiences with using MAXQDA as I embark on my dissertation research about community organizing across the Puerto Rican diaspora in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. My prim...
The Necessity of Categorizing Qualitative Data: Coding to Enrich Fieldwork Data Collection
Guest post by Ruijie Peng. After being in the field for about eight months, I have now collected many kinds of data including dozens of interview transcripts, hundreds of pages of field notes, analytical memos and summary notes. Even with all the materia...
Focus Group Research with MAXMaps – How to Visualize Variance and Commonality
This is a guest article written by Matthew Loxton, a Principal Healthcare Analyst and Professional MAXQDA Trainer. How MAXQDA can assist with Focus Group Analysis: analysis of differences and commonality of focus group perceptions Focus groups and in-de...
Investigating the Human-Animal Relationship among the Even People of Siberia using MAXQDA
Guest Post by Aivaras Jefanovas. This is the first fieldwork diary entry about my research with the human-animal relationship among a small Even community of reindeer herders/hunters of the Yakutia North. The article will describe my fieldwork experience...
Ethnographic Data Collection and Analysis Strategies with MAXQDA – Grounded Theory Research Example
Guest post by Haitao Yu. Despite significant social and economic progress during the past two centuries, economic development - ironically - has put some communities’ livelihoods in peril through globalization. As the 21st century unfolds, sustainable de...
