Managing Table Overviews

…er of the overview. Another toolbar will then appear where you can enter a search term. Highlight rows with hits – Highlights the rows in which the search term appears. Choose search columns – Allows you to select the columns in which to search. Find & replace – Allows you to enter a term to replace hits. Only hits that the user has permission to change will be replaced. In the Data Editor for Document Variables shown above, the values of the user…

Managing Table Overviews

…er of the overview. Another toolbar will then appear where you can enter a search term. Highlight rows with hits – Highlights the rows in which the search term appears. Choose search columns – Allows you to select the columns in which to search. Find & replace – Allows you to enter a term to replace hits. Only hits that the user has permission to change will be replaced. In the Data Editor for Document Variables shown above, the values of the user…

Twitter Data

…identification can you start your search on Twitter. Once you agree to the terms, the search fields will become available. The complex search follows the same principle as the advanced Twitter search. In the top fields, you can enter words or strings that must appear or not appear in the tweets. In the middle and lower sections, you can set define specific conditions for the search and the accounts to be searched: From these accounts – searches fo…

Keyword in Context (KWIC)

…cide how much context to include, e.g. 1 sentence or 10 words or after the search string. The following image shows what the export of a keyword-in-context search looks like. It has the following structure: each hit starts with the source data (document group, document name, and the paragraph number containing the hit). The next line indicates the search word or search string that has been found in that paragraph. Finally the text segment itself i…

Importing Twitter Data

…identification can you start your search on Twitter. Once you agree to the terms, the search fields will become available. The complex search follows the same principle as the advanced Twitter search. In the top fields, you can enter words or strings that must appear or not appear in the tweets. In the middle and lower sections, you can set define specific conditions for the search and the accounts to be searched. From these accounts – searches fo…

Keyword in Context (KWIC)

…cide how much context to include, e.g. 1 sentence or 10 words or after the search string. The following image shows what the export of a keyword-in-context search looks like. It has the following structure: each hit starts with the source data (document group, document name, and the paragraph number containing the hit). The next line indicates the search word or search string that has been found in that paragraph. Finally the text segment itself i…

Code your data

…more of a label used to name phenomena in a text or an image. In technical terms, a code is a character string that can consist of up to 63 characters in MAXQDA, be it several words or more cryptical strings like “CR128”. In social research, codes can possess different meanings and take on different functions in the research process: there are factual codes, thematic codes, theoretical codes and many more (see Kuckartz 2018, Richards 2014). From s…

Code your Data

…more of a label used to name phenomena in a text or an image. In technical terms, a code is a character string that can consist of up to 63 characters in MAXQDA, be it several words or more cryptical strings like “CR128”. In social research, codes can possess different meanings and take on different functions in the research process: there are factual codes, thematic codes, theoretical codes and many more (see Rädiker & Kuckartz 2019, Richards 201…

Import and explore your data

…ems as you like at once. Use the return key to end your entry or add a new search string. Each search item is placed in a new line. The standard setting follows the “OR” logic, i.e. as soon as one of the search items is found, it will be listed as a hit. Clicking an item will show you the relevant paragraph in the Document Browser window. Color-coding and memos Sometimes you may want to mark something in a text or note comments, hypotheses and fur…

Import and Explore your Data

…ems as you like at once. Use the return key to end your entry or add a new search string. Each search item is placed in a new line. The standard setting follows the “OR” logic, i.e. as soon as one of the search items is found, it will be listed as a hit. Clicking an item will show you the relevant paragraph in the Document Browser window. Color-coding and memos Sometimes you may want to mark something in a text or note comments, hypotheses and fur…