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Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 12, 2014 at 04:08 PM
A rather interesting qualitative analysis tool that isn’t ridiculously priced and claims to be easy to use. Has anybody had a play/does anybody use it regularly?
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 12, 2014 at 11:40 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
A rather interesting qualitative analysis tool that isn’t ridiculously
>priced and claims to be easy to use. Has anybody had a play/does anybody
>use it regularly?
>http://www.quirkos.com
Interesting find, thanks for that. Always good to see new entrants in this space, as the big boys can indeed be overpriced and very restrictive with their licensing. It’s also a very interesting idea to make this kind of qualitative coding accessible to non-researchers.
I’ve only just watched the videos. Overall it looks good, but I’m wondering how well it would cope with some larger scale projects, where there might be a hundred or more deeply nested codes and sub-codes. For those kind of situations a hierarchical tree organisation may still be more useful than these bubbles. Perhaps they add that feature one day (unless it’s already there).
Posted by Dr Dan
Nov 13, 2014 at 09:02 AM
Hi, I’m Daniel, one of the designers of Quirkos - do let us know what you think, we’re really new so feedback is always welcome!
>I’ve only just watched the videos. Overall it looks good, but I’m
>wondering how well it would cope with some larger scale projects, where
>there might be a hundred or more deeply nested codes and sub-codes. For
>those kind of situations a hierarchical tree organisation may still be
>more useful than these bubbles. Perhaps they add that feature one day
>(unless it’s already there).
There is also a traditional hierarchy list view for the codes, so you aren’t forced to use the bubbles - much more useful if as you say you have hundreds of codes. It’s called the ‘luggage label’ view: you can see how to access it in the bit guide video below:
http://youtu.be/Hk7YWoVud-Y?t=23s
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 13, 2014 at 05:55 PM
Dr Dan wrote:
>There is also a traditional hierarchy list view for the codes, so you
>aren’t forced to use the bubbles - much more useful if as you say you
>have hundreds of codes. It’s called the ‘luggage label’ view: you can
>see how to access it in the bit guide video below:
>http://youtu.be/Hk7YWoVud-Y?t=23s
Hi Daniel,
welcome to the forum and many thanks for your prompt reply and for the link! Good to see there is also a hierarchical list view. And congrats to what looks like a very innovative software.
Nevertheless, if you don’t mind me saying so, those “luggage labels” seem to be taking up a fair bit of screen real estate (when compared to let’s say what they’d look in Nvivo, e.g. http://drandus.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/nvivo_codes.png ). Also, at first sight I missed that the list was indented, as the indentation is rather slight.
It looks like the design favours touch screens? Personally I prefer to use a desktop PC with keyboard and mouse when working with large data sets with hundred plus codes, and in those situations I find that the more of a list is visible on the screen, the better.
Anyway, these are just my first impressions, and only from looking at the videos. I will take it on a test ride when I have a bit more time.
Best wishes with the venture!
Posted by Dr Dan
Nov 15, 2014 at 10:02 AM
>Nevertheless, if you don’t mind me saying so, those “luggage labels”
>seem to be taking up a fair bit of screen real estate (when compared to
>let’s say what they’d look in Nvivo, e.g.
>http://drandus.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/nvivo_codes.png ). Also, at
>first sight I missed that the list was indented, as the indentation is
>rather slight.
Thanks, that’s some really useful feedback - I’ll look into making that more obvious, and a bit tighter. However, Quirkos will display multiple columns in that view, side-by-side, so you should be able to see far more codes at once than you would on Nvivo…
>It looks like the design favours touch screens? Personally I prefer to
>use a desktop PC with keyboard and mouse when working with large data
>sets with hundred plus codes, and in those situations I find that the
>more of a list is visible on the screen, the better.
Yes, the design (and files) are the same for tablets and desktop computers, so it’s always a familiar interface - but it’s very much proper desktop software too - there are keyboard short-cuts for coding for example, and it stretches really well across two screens for true power users!
Thanks so much for you feedback, keep it coming, I’m always looking for improvements we can make.
Daniel