This workshop will investigate the early stages of a developing project file—the considerations for shaping, organizing, and importing raw data and the MAXQDA functions that enable you to maintain a clear and well-organized project during the initial phase of analysis.
The workshop will function like a brief simulation. You will be provided with sample data and work in a collaborative setting to create a MAXQDA project file and undertake some exploratory analysis. Throughout the workshop, we will seize opportunities to interrogate and discuss our organizational and analytical choices and rationale.
Participating in this workshop will provide you with an opportunity to adapt some new practices and think deliberately about the way you conceptualize organizing your data and commencing early analysis. By seeing, in context, when and where certain MAXQDA functions are used, you will gain a clearer sense of their broader scope and scale which should aide you in later applications.