From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:02:32 +0100 Message-ID: <45CFA088.1030803@gmail.com> References: <20070211225047.GA28680@relwi.unibe.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171234988 14075 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2007 23:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 12 00:03:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGNil-0003S8-7k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:02:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNik-00069v-RJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNiW-000631-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:02:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNiU-0005vv-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:02:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNiT-0005vZ-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGNiT-0008K4-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64473 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HGNiR-0007R0-3p; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:02:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: <20070211225047.GA28680@relwi.unibe.ch> X-Antivirus: avast! 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X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41109 Archived-At: sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch 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. > > As a fanatic Emacs-newbie I would find it wonderful to get rid of > Atlas.ti (my last indispensable Windows program) and to have similar > functionality within Emacs. Maybe there is already a lisp-package that > can be used for qualitative data analysis. > > The main function of a QDA tool is to markup and query a set of texts, > say, interviews with people who, for example, recently converted from > Christianity to a different religious community. These interviews may > contain a variety of similar statements that can be "coded" by the > researcher who marks the relevant passages and gives them keywords > like: experience, spirit, power, charisma and so on. A query in this > database should for example count all the passages where, for example, > "experience" occurs together with "charisma" and display a list of > hits that functions as links to the original passages. > > Does anybody know about such a package? > > Best wishes, > Sven I do not know much about QDA tools, I have never got the time to test them. I remember however there was a discussion about such tools on RadPsyNet. Unfortunately I believe Atlas.ti was one of the tools mentioned and no one proposed any better or free tools, but some other tools were mentioned. You can find RadPsyNet here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RadPsyNet-Members/ The thread I think about has the subject Computer Tools for Analysing Qualitative Data