From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Ottaway Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:04:17 +0000 Message-ID: <87y7n2fem6.fsf@lse.ac.uk> References: <20070211225047.GA28680@relwi.unibe.ch> <873b5a9ubg.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171368293 8475 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2007 12:04:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:04:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 13:04:45 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 1HGwOp-0001Ea-Ou for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:04:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwOp-0002V7-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwOe-0002V2-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwOc-0002Uq-Dk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwOc-0002Un-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:30 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGwOb-0002PK-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwOZ-0004K8-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:04:27 +0100 Original-Received: from 53-186.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.53.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:04:27 +0100 Original-Received: from j.ottaway by 53-186.adsl.zetnet.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:04:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 53-186.adsl.zetnet.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nHhYqBCGh5yiHI2xDd9pqahlAFs= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:41161 Archived-At: On 13 Feb 2007, Brendan Halpin wrote: > Jim Ottaway writes: > >> If you want to have a look, you can get it at >> http://www.jeho.org/qda.tar.gz. > > That looks extremely good. If it were not for the fact that the > intersection of the set of qualitative sociologists and the set of > emacs users is extremely small, it could be very popular. That > said, it could be useful for much more than analysing interview > transcripts. Yes, the small N potential users problem was really what kept me from developing it into something more than for my own personal use. It hadn't really occurred to me that it might be of broader interest. I think I'll try to find some time to develop it. Regards, -- Jim Ottaway