Quirkos Cloud lets you save your data in our secure cloud servers, so you can access your data anywhere. Share projects and work together with live collaboration, with the same simple interface and powerful features. Where-ever your team are in the world, on Windows, Mac or Linux, they can work together and communicate with the live chat feature. QDA Miner will run on a Mac OS using virtual machine solution or Boot Camp, and on Linux computers using CrossOver or Wine. It has a lite version that is free. This is not one of the major CAQDAS programs, but you're looking for free, which it is.
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RDQA is a R package for Qualitative Data Analysis, a free (free as freedom) qualitative analysis software application (BSD license). It works on Windows, Linux/FreeBSD and Mac OSX platforms. RQDA is an easy to use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data. At the moment it only supports plain text formatted data. All the information is stored in a SQLite database via the R package of RSQLite. The GUI is based on RGtk2, via the aid of gWidgetsRGtk2. It includes a number of standard Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis features. In addition it seamlessly integrates with R, which means that a) statistical analysis on the coding is possible, and b) functions for data manipulation and analysis can be easily extended by writing R functions. To some extent, RQDA and R make an integrated platform for both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Through the GUI, RQDA can:
Through R functions, it can:
You can use help(package='RQDA') to see more functions of the RQDA package.
For non-R-users who use Windows, you can download a rar file from Baidu Yun Pan, extract it to, say, c:. Then you can launch the RQDA by double clicking the RQDA.bat file. This instruction has been tested on OS X EI Capitan (2016/06/23).
Old instruction for Yosemite users.
User contributed documentation
I have put a lot of effort in this project. I appreciate if you can cite this software in your research. You can use citation('RQDA') to get this citation.
HUANG Ronggui (2016). RQDA: R-based Qualitative Data Analysis. R package version 0.2-8. http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/
RQDA 0.2-8 is released on CRAN (2016-12-12). The most important changes include profile matrix (Kuckartz, 2014) and Portuguese translation, among others. Unfortunately, this release is not compatible with RSQLite 1.1.0, which means that you need to downgrade RSQLite to 1.0.0 to make RQDA works properly. This problem will be fixed in development version on GitHub.
RQDA 0.2-5 is released on CRAN (2014-03-26). This update is in compliance with CRAN policies, but has no significant new features. JRE is required to used rjpod enhancement.
RQDA 0.2-3 is released with several new features (2012-12-12).
rmmseg4j 0.1-0 is released to CRAN (2012-06-18)
RQDA 0.2-2 is now on CRAN (2011-12-27)
Two new packages (rsmartcn, rmmseg4j) have been added, which segment Simplified Chinese into words seperated by space.
RQDA 0.2-1 is now on CRAN (2011-09-10)
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RQDA 0.2-0 is now on CRAN (2010-10-20)
RQDAtm 0.1-0 works now. It bridges RQDA and tm (rev 313) (2010-04-26).
RQDA 0.1-9 is now on CRAN (2010-02-28). There is a bug, and the solution is here.
RQDA 0.1-8 is now on CRAN (2009-09-20)
RQDA 0.1-7 is now on CRAN (2009-04-28)
RQDA 0.1-6 is now on CRAN (2008-12-30)
RQDA has been actively developed. You can click here to see the new features. There are few known-bugs, click KnownBugs for details.
Main windows under Vista and under Debian Linux
Reading File
File Memo
File Categories window under Vista and Debian Linux
Codes list window under Vista and under Debian Linux
Code Categories window under Vista and Debian Linux
Coding
Retrieval
Cases window under XP and under Debian Linux
Attributes window under Debian Linux
Journals window under Debian Linux
Settings window under XPand under Debian Linux
A spin on the phrase 'tag it!', Taguette is a free and open-source qualitative research tool (which works on all operating systems!) that allows users to:
- Import PDFs, Word Docs (.docx), Text files (.txt), HTML, EPUB, MOBI, Open Documents (.odt), and Rich Text Files (.rtf).
- Highlight words, sentences, or paragraphs and tag them with the codes you create.
- Work collaboratively with other users (if self-hosting or using app.taguette.org).
- Your data stays your own; export everything including your project, highlights, documents, and codes.
...and much more! You can view our development queue on GitLab here: https://gitlab.com/remram44/taguette/-/issues. You can always add feature requests, bug reports, or general feedback via GitLab issues. If you are not sure how to do that, feel free to email us your feedback at [email protected].
If you use Taguette for your research, please cite it with the following:
Rémi Rampin, Vicky Rampin, & Sarah DeMott. (2021, July 17). Taguette (Version 1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5111814
Why did we make Taguette?
Qualitative methods generate rich, detailed research materials that leave individuals’ perspectives intact as well as provide multiple contexts for understanding the phenomenon under study. Qualitative methods are used in a wide range of fields, such as anthropology, education, nursing, psychology, sociology, and marketing. Qualitative data has a similarly wide range: observations, interviews, documents, audiovisual materials, and more.
However - the software options for qualitative researchers are either far too expensive, don't allow for the seminal method of highlighting and tagging materials, or actually perform quantitative analysis, just on text.
It's not right or fair that qualitative researchers without massive research funds cannot afford the basic software to do their research.
So, to bolster a fair and equitable entry into qualitative methods, we've made Taguette!
The Team
Taguette was developed by Rémi Rampin. Vicky Rampin and Sarah DeMott provided the functional requirements, user needs, and testing in order to influence the development process.
Qualitative Data Analysis Software Open Source Code
Rémi Rampin Main Dev | Vicky Rampin Product Manager | Sarah DeMott Trainer & User Liaison |