From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:17:09 +0100 Message-ID: <45D1AC45.2090906@gmail.com> References: <20070211225047.GA28680@relwi.unibe.ch> <873b5a9ubg.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> <87y7n2fem6.fsf@lse.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171369059 11277 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2007 12:17:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jim Ottaway Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 13:17:27 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 1HGwb8-0006uJ-Ai for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:17:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwb7-00081A-Qd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwav-00080t-LN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwau-00080b-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGwat-00080Y-Vq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGwat-0004ZR-GE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60875 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HGwar-0007EU-85; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:17:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: <87y7n2fem6.fsf@lse.ac.uk> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000712-7, 2007-02-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HGwar-0007EU-85. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HGwar-0007EU-85 44a6e0b0a145ba9cd46f100f6db02f2b X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:41162 Archived-At: Jim Ottaway wrote: > 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. I just downloaded qda and tried to test it. What do I need to do to start it? (I read the info file, but it does not tell me the whole story I think.)