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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