All of your notes at your fingertips: You might already use memos to jot down your thoughts while you analyze your qualitative data, to attach coding instructions to your code sytsem or to attach case summaries to your interviews. Memos can be attached to...
Tip of the Month
MAXQDA12 Tip of the Month – Copy Segment with Source Information
Save time when presenting your MAXQDA research results: If you want to copy coded segments from MAXQDA to quote them e.g. in your report or in your presentation, you can add the correct source information with just one click. (more…)...
MAXQDA12 Tip of the month: Keyboard Shortcuts in MAXQDA
Improve your work with MAXQDA by using the MAXQDA keyboard shortcuts! MAXQDA offers the ability to call up functions in many different and convenient ways.To make your analysis with MAXQDA even more efficient you can use keyboard shortcuts to get your wor...
Analyzing a presidential debate at lightning speed – by using MAXQDA’s focus group functionality
A large number of data acquired by qualitative researchers contains text with multiple speakers: a qualitative interview (interviewer/interviewee) as well as a focus group discussion, a literature analysis of a play, or a public debate. For this reason MA...
MAXQDA 12 Tip of the month: Tag Cloud
Do you want to begin your analysis with an overview of the most common terms used in your data or visualize these terms graphically in a presentation? Use tag clouds!Just right-click on the document, document set, or document group you are interes...
MAXQDA12 Tip of the month: Transcribing Audio
This is an updated version of the article Transcribing Audio with MAXQDA 11. In most cases when you conduct and record interviews, you end up with an mp3 audio file that needs to be transcribed. Transcription is often done with a foot pedal, which can be...
MAXQDA11 Tip of the month: How to hide codes instead of deleting them
In most research projects the code system changes a lot during each step of the analysis. New codes are created, codes are renamed, combined, differentiated or sometimes even deleted. How many times have you deleted a code and later wished you had kept it...
MAXQDA11 Tip of the month: Code with MaxMaps
Sometimes, when you are working on a MAXQDA project with a really long and complex code system structure you might find that you want to pursue coding for a specific theme, and use certain codes that are spread out across your code system. This might mean...
MAXQDA11 Tip of the Month: Discourse Analysis with MAXQDA
The field of discourse analysis includes different approaches and methodologies. There is neither a unified theory on what discourse analysis actually is nor a certain method used to do research on it. Within the Social Sciences it’s often interesting to ...
MAXQDA11 Tip of the month: How I manage my literature with MAXQDA
This tip of the months was written by Elgen Sauerborn, who is a PhD student at the sociology department of the Freie Unversität Berlin, Germany.I started my PhD on women in leadership positions and emotional labor in 2013. Working towards finishing my...