Oh dear, some how managed to hit send instead of discard :-(

What I was thinking of saying was that I have very crudely used  a similar
approach to look at expert views on environmental impacts, but only with
software that counted the occurance  of specific terms or words. I have no
experience of proper qualitative analytical tools.

I am also just beginning to use Emacs (in Windows)  and still need a lot of
hand holding, but certainly this is of interest to me as an Emacs mode.


Graham

On 13/02/07, Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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