All-in-one Grounded Theory Analysis Software
Take your Grounded Theory analysis to the next level with MAXQDA
MAXQDA is the best choice for your grounded theory analysis. It works with a wide range of data types and offers powerful tools to analyze textual data, such as coding, visualization, mixed methods, statistical, and quantitative content analysis tools.
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Grounded theory analysis software for Windows and Mac
MAXQDA is the best choice for your grounded theory analysis. It works with a wide range of data types and offers powerful tools to analyze textual data, such as coding, visualization, mixed methods, statistical, and quantitative content analysis tools.
Developed by and for researchers – since 1989
Having used several qualitative data analysis software programs, there is no doubt in my mind that MAXQDA has advantages over all the others. In addition to its remarkable analytical features for harnessing data, MAXQDA’s stellar customer service, online tutorials, and global learning community make it a user friendly and top-notch product.
Sally S. Cohen – NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Grounded Theory Analysis is Faster and Smarter with MAXQDA
Analyze all kinds of data – from texts to images and audio/video files, websites, tweets, focus group discussions, survey responses, and much more. MAXQDA is at once powerful and easy-to-use, innovative and user-friendly, as well as the only leading QDA software that is 100% identical on Windows and Mac.
All-in-one Grounded Theory Analysis Software
As your all-in-one Grounded Theory Analysis Software, MAXQDA can be used to manage your entire research project. Easily import a wide range of data types such as text documents, interview transcripts, focus groups, online surveys, web pages, images, audio and video files, spreadsheets, bibliographic data, YouTube data, and even tweets. Organize your data in groups, link relevant quotes to each other, use MAXQDA’s powerful tools designed to facilitate your grounded theory analysis, and share and compare work with your team members. Your project file stays flexible and you can expand and refine your category system as you go to suit your research.
Code and retrieve
MAXQDA is a Grounded Theory Analysis Software that is easy-to-use and can be used to mark important information in your data with different codes, colors, symbols, or emoticons. Because time is precious, you can create codes with just one click and apply them to your data quickly via drag & drop. Especially well suited for grounded theory approaches are MAXQDA’s open-coding mode and the in-vivo coding tool, as they allow researchers to work closely with the data. You can easily expand, refine, and organize your category system as you go to suit your research. MAXQDA as the #1 Grounded Theory Analysis Software offers Text Search tools that allow you to explore your documents without coding or reading them first. Search for keywords and automatically code them with just a few click.
Category Building with Creative Coding
Grounded theory analysis seeks to construct a theory about a topic based on the data. Therefore, after the intitial coding phases, researchers need to sort and group codes into concepts. When codes are organized into the hierarchical structure, the relationships between codes begin to emerge. MAXQDA as the #1 Grounded Theory Analysis Software offers the Creative Coding tool which is the perfect tool for this categorization process. It provides the researcher with a large workspace on which codes can be freely moved, sorted, and linked in order to form meaningful groups. This incredibly powerful feature can provide new and fascinating perspectives.
Capture your ideas while analyzing
Great ideas will often occur to you while you perform your grounded theory analysis. When coding, it is important to critically analyze the progress as you go. With MAXQDA as your grounded theory analysis software, you can organize your thoughts and theories in memos that can be linked to any element of your project. By attaching memos like post-it notes to text passages, texts, document groups, images, audio/video clips, and of course codes, you can easily retrieve them at a later stage. The unique MAXQDA memo manager and lexical search function guarantee immediate access to every single memo at any time.
Constructing the Theory with MAXMaps
Researchers all around the world use Concept Maps to visualize connections and relations in their data. Especially when constructing a theory in grounded theory approaches, it can be helpful to create and explore visual diagrams. Because MAXQDA is a Grounded Theory Analysis Software designed by and for researchers, it offers MAXMaps – a tool specifically designed for creating concept maps. MAXMapos can help to explore and organize data, to visualize complex relationships and theories, and has proven to be a valuable tool for scientific explanation. With MAXMaps you can easily create a visual diagram of your theory, and elaborate the main categories constituting it.
Collect relevant insights and develop new theories
MAXQDA is the perfect tool to organize your thoughts and data. Create a separate worksheet for your topics and research questions, fill it with associated analysis elements from MAXQDA, and add your conclusions, theories, and insights as you go. The Questions-Themes-Theories tool will support you during the analysis phase after coding and is perfectly suited to help you finalize your thematic analysis reports. That’s why MAXQDA is the kind of Grounded Theory Analysis Software that enables you to focus on your research, not on the software.
Visualize your qualitative data
As an all-in-one Grounded Theory Analysis Software, MAXQDA offers a variety of visual tools that are tailor-made for qualitative research and thematic analyses. Create stunning visualizations to analyze your material. Of course, you can export your visualizations in various formats to enrich your final report. Visualize the progression of themes with the Codeline, use the Word Cloud to explore key terms and the central themes, or make use of the graphical representation possibilities of MAXMaps, which in particular permit the creation of concept maps. Thanks to the interactive connection between your visualizations with your MAXQDA data, you’ll never lose sight of the big picture.
AI Assist: Grounded Theory analysis meets AI
AI Assist – your virtual research assistant – supports your Grounded Theory analysis with various tools. Besides automatic transcription of audio and video recordings in different languages, AI Assist simplifies your work by automatically analyzing and summarizing elements of your research project and by generating suggestions for subcodes. No matter which AI tool you use – you can customize your results to suit your needs.
Free tutorials and guides on Grounded Theory analysis
MAXQDA offers a variety of free learning resources for Grounded Theory analysis, making it easy for both beginners and advanced users to learn how to use the software. From free video tutorials and webinars to step-by-step guides and sample projects, these resources provide a wealth of information to help you understand the features and functionality of MAXQDA for Grounded Theory analysis. For beginners, the software’s user-friendly interface and comprehensive help center make it easy to get started with your data analysis, while advanced users will appreciate the detailed guides and tutorials that cover more complex features and techniques. Whether you’re just starting out or are an experienced researcher, MAXQDA’s free learning resources will help you get the most out of your Grounded Theory analysis.
