by David Woods | Dec 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Quantitative researchers have proven that parachutes don’t work. Would qualitative researchers using video data collection methods have reached the same conclusion? Asking for a...
by David Woods | Mar 12, 2018 | Media Files, Transcription
Speech recognition software is becoming more common everywhere. Siri, Google Now, Cortana, and Alexa can field questions on our smart phones, computers, and home “virtual assistant” devices. These tools do a reasonably good job recognizing and interpreting human...
by David Woods | Sep 29, 2017 | Analysis, Collaboration, Transcription, Writing Tools
I received the following support question this week: I am thinking about on the asynchronous communication between the users of Transana MU the chat windows of Transana is only for synchronous communications. How did you deal with this problem in your past practices?...
by David Woods | Sep 15, 2017 | Analysis, Coding, Collections, Keywords
Transana offers two overlapping systems for indicating analytic meaning in text and media data, Categorization and Coding. In Transana, you code by creating a system of Keywords and applying these keywords to selections of text called Quotes or segments of media...
by David Woods | Jul 11, 2017 | Analysis, Media Files
There are many instances when collecting data where there will be more going on at one time than we could possibly observe. A classroom can have one or more teachers providing a variety of learning activities simultaneously to a significant number of students. An...
by David Woods | Mar 6, 2017 | Analysis, Transcription, Word Cloud, Word Frequency
For many qualitative researchers, looking at the specific word choices used by your research participants offers an important first step in exploring your data. You listen to or read your data over and over; you become immersed in it, trying to identify themes and...
