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: Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:42:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20070213124202.GA5472@relwi.unibe.ch> References: <20070211225047.GA28680@relwi.unibe.ch> <87k5ymgya5.fsf@lse.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171370402 15926 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2007 12:40:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:40:02 +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 13:39:50 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 1HGwwo-0000By-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:39:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwwn-0001U2-R2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwwY-0001TF-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:39:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwwX-0001T2-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:39:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwwX-0001Sz-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:39:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-proxy-be-01.sunrise.ch ([194.158.229.48] helo=smtp-auth-be-03.sunrise.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGwwW-0008N2-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:39:32 -0500 Original-Received: from kamaloka.dhatu (pop-be-2-2-dialup-118.freesurf.ch [194.230.163.118]) by smtp-auth-be-03.sunrise.ch (8.13.1/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l1DCdPCs014543 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:39:27 +0100 Original-Received: from sven by kamaloka.dhatu with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HGwyw-00015Y-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:42:02 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k5ymgya5.fsf@lse.ac.uk> 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:41165 Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:14:10AM +0000, Jim Ottaway wrote: > > 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. Wow, I'm glad to have started the thread. It may be worth to further develop your package. It's definitly something that is missing in the Emacs world. I don't know how to do it, but maybe it can be hosted on Sourceforge? > > 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]. That's of course a problem. But there are internet sites that list common QDA programmes, mostly propriatory ones. If an Emacs solution based on your package can reach the status of a beta-version it could be promoted via those sites. It could be the only QDA tool with the label "freeware". Not that I am thinking in terms of gratis software, but that's how these things usually start. It would also be one of the very few crossplatform QDA software. I think, it will be appreciated. That would mean more users for Emacs, more support for GNU. > > If you want to have a look, you can get it at > http://www.jeho.org/qda.tar.gz. Thank you very much. I have downloaded it while I've written my answer. Sven