by David Woods | Importing Data
StudioCode is dead. Long live StudioCode’s data. StudioCode support and availability have disappeared over the past year, leaving users stranded and unable to access their coded video data. Several former StudioCode users have asked me to create a way to import...
by David Woods | 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 | Media Files, Transcription
Inching Towards Automated 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...
by David Woods | 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 | 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 | Analysis, Media Files
How to Collect and Analyze Multiple Simultaneous Media Files – and why it’s worth the trouble. 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...
