Good suggestions from others here. I think in part it depends on how you like to see/organize data, and what you'll need to do with it. I initially was headed towards MaxQDA as I find it visually appealing and intuitive to use, but ultimately went with NVivo 10 as I wanted the social media plugin (NCapture). One of my colleagues swears by Dedoose as it lives in the cloud, and that was very important for his particular needs. Aside from the software itself, I would also recommend looking around to see if the user community is active, and general customer service. Having others to ask about how one function or another works, or how you might approach a particular analytical question, is invaluable when you are in the thick of it. I've been very pleased with this aspect using NVivo. For what it's worth, I run NVivo 10 using Parallels on a Mac. There is a Mac version, but it's still pretty new and doesn't have the full feature set. If you are headed down this road, make sure to compare PC and Mac versions. Best, Jodi. -- Jodi Sperber, MSW, MPH Stalk: Twitter: jsperber <https://twitter.com/jsperber> Skype: jodisperber Read: www.healthissocial.net On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Amir Pouyan Shiva <amirpouyan@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

This blogpost on the CASTAC blog and its comments may also help decide which QDA software to choose:

http://blog.castac.org/2014/12/in-the-qda-test-kitchen-or-what-does-it-matte... On May 13, 2015 12:25 PM, "Kelly Quinn" <kquinn8@uic.edu> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

I use MAXQDA <http://www.maxqda.com/> and have found it be quite flexible for coding all types of files, including audio and video. It accommodates mixed methods work, and has some basic visualization tools too.

I recently had an undergraduate student use it for a research project as well, and she reported that it is quite intuitive and easy to learn. Free trials are available through the website.

Cheers,

Kelly

------ Kelly Quinn, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor Graduate Student Instructor Coordinator Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago (312) 996-8822

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Dear AOIRistas

I am about to a deep dive into a set of ethnographic interviews and was wondering if people would be willing to share their experiences and preferences with different software packages. My only experience is with QSR Nudist and Qualrus, neither of which was a happy time.

Thanks

Andrew

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