MAXQDA Professional Trainer:
Claudia von Vacano

• Program evaluation
• Qualitative methods
• Research design
• Text analysis
• Interviewing analysis
• Digital humanities
• Data science

Consulting services available for research design, coding, and analysis for academic research and program evaluation.

I have a Ph.D. in educational policy, organizational theory and behavior, measurement, and evaluation and a Master's degree in learning design and technology from Stanford, including interface design, user experience, and language acquisition. I have been using QDA’s for 6 years and MaxQDA for 3 years.  I am the executive director of the Social Science D-Lab and Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley.

 Kennedy, C., Bacon, G., Sahn A., von Vacano, C. (In preparation). Integrating Ordinal, Multitask Deep Learning with Faceted Item Response Theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10277

 von Vacano, C., Muzzall, E., Anderson, A.G., Reeve, J., van Nuenen, T. (2020). Building STEAM for DH and Electronic Literature: An Educational Approach to Nurturing the STEAM Mindset in Higher Education. Electronic Book Review, October 4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7273/y68f-7313

Sachdeva, P. S., Barreto, R., von Vacano, C., & Kennedy, C. J. (2022, June).
Assessing annotator identity sensitivity via item response theory: A case study in a hate speech corpus.
In: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

Figueroa, C. A., Manalo-Pedro, E., Pola, S., Darwish, S., Sachdeva, P., Guerrero, C., ... & Kennedy, C. J. (2023).
The stories about racism and health: the development of a framework for racism narratives in medical literature using a computational grounded theory approach.
In: International journal for equity in health, 22(1), 265.

Sachdeva, P., Barreto, R., Bacon, G., Sahn, A., Von Vacano, C., & Kennedy, C. (2022, June).
The measuring hate speech corpus: Leveraging rasch measurement theory for data perspectivism.
In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP@ LREC2022.

Kennedy, C. J., Bacon, G., Sahn, A., & von Vacano, C. (2020).
Constructing interval variables via faceted rasch measurement and multitask deep learning: a hate speech application.
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10277.