QDA Miner Lite is available for free (computer assisted qualitative analysis software)

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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Nov 28, 2012 at 01:15 PM

QDA Miner Lite is available for free.

Link to the freeware:
http://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/freeware/

Compare versions:
http://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/freeware/compare-versions/

What is QDA Miner Lite?
QDA Minre Lite is a free and easy-to-use version of our popular computer assisted qualitative analysis software. It can be used for the analysis of textual data such as interview and news transcripts, open-ended responses, etc. as well as for the analysis of still images.

Some features:
Importation of documents from plain text, RTF, HTML, PDF as well as data stored in Excel, MS Access, CSV, tab delimited text files,

Importation from other qualitative coding software such as Altas.ti, HyperResearch, Etnograph, from transcription tools like Transana and Transcriber as well as from Reference Information System (.RIS) files.

Intuitive coding using codes organized in a tree structure.

Ability to add comments (or memos) to coded segments, cases or the whole project.

Fast Boolean text search tool for retrieving and coding text segments.

Code frequency analysis with bar chart, pie chart and tag clouds.

Coding retrieval with Boolean (and, or , not) and proximity operators (includes, enclosed, near, before, after).

Export tables to XLS, Tab Delimited, CSV formats, and Word format

Export graphs to BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF formats.

Single-file (*.qdp) project format.

Interface and help file in English, French and Spanish.

Dominik

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 28, 2012 at 03:13 PM

Thanks for that. For a free version that looks like an impressive set of features. You could pretty much complete the coding for a whole research project with that (if it really does what it says on the can).

This looks like a good strategy for Provalis, as Atlas.ti and Nvivo have now pretty much established a duopoly in the QDA/CAQDAS market. As this is an institutional market (universities, govt. etc. are the buyers), they would need to target the end-users.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 30, 2012 at 08:38 AM

Thanks for that, Dominik - wow! Looks like a good toy!

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