My 2-cents - Like Gus I have used Atlas.ti with some of my research. However I'm now switching to Nvivo. Nvivo 8 allows for coding of multimedia objects, something only Atlas.ti did previously, and I am told by the company that version 9 will - in all likelihood - allow for the native coding of html pages. In version 8 you can code html pages but they have to be converted to jpegs first. So with all of that creating a more level playing field, I am switching because Nvivo and QSR have much better customer support. I've asked them a variety of questions about their products and every communication from them was timely and of an appropriate customer support tone...not something I can say about Atlas.ti which refused to work on my former XP machine and their final customer support message was and I quote..."Buy a new computer" after which they - I actually think it's just one person - stopped responding to emails. Nvivo has a 30 day trial before purchase and while their student price is more than Atlas.ti, in this case I'm sure I will be getting what I am paying for. Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and IUPUC, Columbus IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com Quoting gus andrews <gus.andrews@gmail.com>:
Derek, have you tried Atlas TI? I have just started tinkering with it on the advice of a colleague who's used it pretty happily for analyzing conversations. I personally am working on blog comment threads with it. So far it's been a little frustrating -- there's some massaging of text files needed to get the comment threads into the program, and then tagging is a little difficult -- but I think it's more because I am not well-practiced with the software yet. All in all it seems to have a hugely rich ability to create tags and themes, and to display these in a variety of ways.
The big benefit of Atlas TI is that once you've run out your 30-day trial period, a grad student license for the software is only something like $100. Not sure what it runs for professors, but for me, this is a pretty big help.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who's used Atlas TI as well.
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