From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
To: "Jim Ottaway" <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:18:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c75873c0702130418i7ae6e588gb9b9a19b70eb92d8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5ymgya5.fsf@lse.ac.uk>
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Jim,
Just to add some support for this from a wider range
On 13/02/07, Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 11 Feb 2007, sven bretfeld wrote:
>
> > Dear Everybody
> >
> > I have quite a special question, inspired by the very interesting
> > recent thread which was inaccurately called "An extremely dumb
> > curiosity question".
> >
> > An editor as powerful as Emacs should have the ability to function as
> > a QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis) tool. Maybe some of you have worked
> > with software like Atlas.ti which is only available for Windows (and
> > very expensive) or GTAMSAnalyzer which runs on GNU/Linux via
> > GNUStep. You know what I'm talking about.
>
> I wrote something for my PhD research that was based on NUD.IST. It does
> pretty much all that NUD.IST does: construction of hiearchical indexing
> trees, coding of text units within a document, memos, searches, etc.
>
> I found it very useful to have the QDA program integrated into Emacs.
> Unfortunately QDA, as I named it, has a very clunky user interface, and
> not very much documentation.
>
> Also, I think that some things like hypertext linking between documents
> and memos could be done better using something like muse.
>
> Nevertheless, it worked well enough for me to use it effectively for my
> thesis. Now I have finished the PhD I am hoping to find some time to
> make it work better. Especially since some others have expressed
> interest in an Emacs QDA program [I haven't previously found many
> sociologists interested in using anything other than NVivo, Atlas.Ti,
> etc].
>
> If you want to have a look, you can get it at
> http://www.jeho.org/qda.tar.gz.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Jim Ottaway
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-11 22:50 Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? sven.bretfeld
2007-02-11 23:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-13 10:14 ` Jim Ottaway
2007-02-13 12:18 ` Graham Smith [this message]
2007-02-13 12:25 ` Graham Smith
2007-02-13 12:42 ` sven.bretfeld
2007-02-13 13:27 ` Jim Ottaway
[not found] ` <mailman.4412.1171361684.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-13 11:21 ` Brendan Halpin
2007-02-13 12:04 ` Jim Ottaway
2007-02-13 12:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-13 17:36 ` sven.bretfeld
2007-02-13 17:53 ` Jim Ottaway
[not found] <mailman.4361.1171234113.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-19 17:52 ` dsoliver
[not found] <mailman.4398.1171316978.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-12 22:09 ` Brendan Halpin
[not found] <mailman.4374.1171265441.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-12 21:26 ` thorne
2007-02-12 21:33 ` Brendan Halpin
2007-02-12 21:48 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-12 23:31 ` sven.bretfeld
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2007-02-11 18:52 Sven Bretfeld
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