From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:50:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20070211225047.GA28680@relwi.unibe.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171234136 11172 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2007 22:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:48:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 11 23:48:50 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 1HGNUx-0004R6-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:48:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNUx-0006mQ-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNUk-0006mB-TE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNUi-0006lD-IS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGNUi-0006ky-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-proxy-be-01.sunrise.ch ([194.158.229.48] helo=smtp-auth-be-01.sunrise.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGNUh-0006iE-OP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from kamaloka.dhatu (pop-ls-10-2-dialup-226.freesurf.ch [194.230.233.226]) by smtp-auth-be-01.sunrise.ch (8.13.1/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l1BMmKTl003123 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:48:22 +0100 Original-Received: from sven by kamaloka.dhatu with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HGNWy-0001to-O7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:50:48 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Kernel 2.6.18-3-486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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:41108 Archived-At: 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