No artigo anterior demonstrei como o MAXQDA foi fundamental na realização de uma revisão bibliográfica sobre a eficiência energética no sector da água em Portugal. Neste, vou mostrar-vos como consegui realizar entrevistas e organizá-las na minha investiga...
Learning MAXQDA
Using MAXQDA in news media research combining quantitative and qualitative data
Guest post by Maria Freitas with the assistance of Francisco Freitas. The usage of software in research is becoming commonplace thanks to the wide variety of possibilities and functions available. Software packages like MAXQDA are tools to assist researc...
MAXQDA 2020.4 Update – It’s all about sentiment
We are constantly working on new features to improve the MAXQDA user experience. The new MAXQDA 2020.4 update includes completely new features as well as some smaller improvements to enhance your work and make data handling even more straightforward. In t...
Learning Research Methodology in Practice: our hands-on method
Guest post by Sonia Mano & Vanessa Fernandes Guimarães. Introduction Since 2009, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, a unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, has offered a course in Specialization in Science, Technology Popularization and, after 2016, a Master’s de...
Stop word lists: improving visualization of text data
The term “stop word” refers to the most common words in a language. These are typically words which do not add much meaning to a sentence since they occur too frequently in various contexts or belong to a category called function words. When handling natu...
Using MAXQDA for Non-Traditional Purposes
Guest post by Matthew H. Loxton, a Principal Healthcare Analyst and Professional MAXQDA Trainer. MAXQDA is well known as a leading qualitative data analysis (QDA) platform, and I have used it for typical research projects, such as analysis of organizatio...
MAXQDA Tip of the Month: Web Collector and Twitter analysis- powerful tools for internet research
IMPORTANT: Following changes in the Twitter API regulations made by Twitter this year, MAXQDA will no longer be able to support the „Twitter import“ function (from April 29th onwards). Nonetheless, any Tweets already imported into a MAXQDA project can sti...
Qualitative Data Management with MAXQDA- Climate Change Adaptation Research Example
I recently completed all my dissertation data management and analysis using MAXQDA 2020 Analytics Pro. This article describes the process I used to manage a large qualitative data set and the different tools I used in MAXQDA for conducting and completing ...
Analysing drawings with MAXQDA: Human-Elephant Interaction Research Example
In my previous post, I shared the steps to analyse responses of local community members which were obtained through Focus Group Discussions. As a part of the same project I attempted to collect responses of school children on the subject of elephants. For...
MAXQDA Tip of the Month: Analyzing Code Relations with MAXQDA’s visual tools
Creating a Code System and coding your data is one of the main parts of qualitative data analysis. Have you ever wondered how to proceed if you want to analyze the interrelationships among the coded data? In this month’s tip we want to introduce four diff...