Web Resources

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  • Analysis Software for Word-based Records (AnSWR)
    Available from the United States Centers for Disease Control, AnSWR is a software system for coordinating and conducting large-scale, team-based analysis projects that integrate qualitative and quantitative techniques.
     
  • Aquad
    A German open source QDAS package with sophisticated features including Boolean search.

  • Cassandre
    A free QDAS package for Windows, Mac and Linux from Belgium. Most documentation is in French.

  • Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT)
    Designed to use mainly keystrokes rather than the mouse for coding, CAT can import an ATLAS.ti project for quantitative analysis, although it has a coding mechanism built into itself as well.

  • CATMA
    Text analysis and literary research software developed at the University of Hamburg mainly for humanities researchers.

  • Compendium
    A general purpose sharing and collaboration tool from the Open University in the UK. 

  • FreeQDA
    An open source QDAS tool.

  • libreQDA
    A Spanish-language QDAS tool from Uruguay. 

  • Open Code 
    Open Code was originally developed for use with Grounded Theory but is now a general-purpose qualitative data analysis tool.

  • QDA Miner Lite
    Easy-to-use version of QDA Miner that offers basic QDAS features.

  • RQDA
    A package for the popular programming language Rthat performs both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

  • Saturate
    An online QDAS tool for simple and quick coding that is suited for coding with more than one analyst.

  • TAMS
    An open source QDAS tool, Tams is short for Text Analysis Markup System.

  • QDAS Comparison Site
    The QDAS comparison site at Loughborough University

  • The QDAS Networking Project
    Site for networking among qualitative data analysis software users.

  • Hint.fm
    Site of visualization and analytics pioneers Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.

  • Wordle
    Popular wordcloud tool.

  • TagCrowd
    Tag cloud site for visualizing word frequency.

  • WordSmith
    Software for finding word frequencies and concordances.

  • Linguistic Ethnography