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Categorizing and Coding Data

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Table of Contents

Introduction
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  • Transana Overview
  • Transana’s Analytic Model
  • Transana’s Main Screen

Bringing Data Files Into Transana
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  • Starting Transana – Professional and Basic Versions
  • Using Transana Multiuser
  • Creating a Library in Transana
  • Ading Your First Text File to Transana
  • Adding Your First Media File to Transana
  • Import Survey Data
  • Batch Episode Creation
  • Adding Multiple Simultaneous Media Files to Transana

Transcription & Time Codes
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  • Types of Transcripts
  • Transcription with Transana
  • Time Codes in Transana
  • Transcription Shortcuts
  • Using Speech Recognition Software with Transana
  • Transcript Formatting and Transcript Templates

Creating Analytic Codes & Categories
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  • Creating Keywords and Keyword Groups
  • Default Keywords
  • Creating Collections in Transana

Categorizing & Coding Data
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Analyzing Text-based Data

  • Creating Standard Quotes
  • Creating Quick Quotes

Analyzing Media-based Data

  • Creating Standard Clips
  • Creating Quick Clips
  • Creating Clips Without Transcripts
  • Creating Clips with Multiple Simultaneous Media File Data

Analyzing Still Image Data

  • Still Images in Transana

Summary

  • Brief Comparison of the Standard and Quick Methods of Creating Quotes and Clips

Common Analytic Tasks with Coded Data

  • Manipulating Quotes, Clips and Snapshots in Collections
  • Common Coding Tasks
Reports, Maps, and Graphs
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  • Transana’s Text Reports
  • Transana’s Word Frequency Reports and Word Clouds
  • Transana’s Keyword Map Reports
  • Filter Dialogs and Filter Configurations

Searches
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  • Quick Searches and Search Results
  • Full Searches
  • Boolean Basics and the use of Parentheses in Searches in Transana

Writing Tools in Transana
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  • Working with Notes
  • Research Journals and Hyperlinks

Tools and Utilities
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  • Media Conversion
  • File Management and Update Database
  • Find Missing Files
  • Transferring Coded Data In and Out of Transana

Additional Topics
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  • Analyzing Sports Video
  • What Has Transana Done for Qualitative Methodology?
  • The Data Conversion Utility for Transana 3.00

Analyzing Text Based Data

Creating Standard Quotes

This ScreenCast shows how to create Standard Quotes in the Professional and Multiuser versions of Transana 3.x as a first step in analyzing text data. (11:36, Transana Professional 3.00 shown.)

Creating Quick Quotes

This ScreenCast shows how to create Quick Quotes in the Professional, and Multiuser versions of Transana 3.x as a first step in analyzing text data. (8:32, Transana Professional 3.00 shown.)

Analyzing Media-Based Data

Creating Standard Clips

This ScreenCast shows how to create Standard Clips in Transana 3.x as a first step in analyzing media data. (14:04, Transana Professional 3.00 shown.)

Creating Clips without Transcripts

How to create Clips in Transana without Transcribing first. NOTE: This feature is available with Transana 2.61 and higher. (7:54, Transana 2.61a release shown)

Creating Quick Clips

This ScreenCast shows how to create Quick Clips in Transana 3.x as a first step in analyzing media data. (8:48, Transana Professional 3.00 shown.)

Creating Clips With Multiple Simultaneous Media File Data

How to create Clips from Episodes with Multiple Simultaneous Media Files in Transana. (2:57, Transana Professional 3.20 pre-release version shown)

Analyzing Still Image Data

Still Images in Transana

How to add still images to Transcripts, and how to create Snapshots, (still images) to use as full-status codable data. (12:43, Transana 2.60 shown)

Standard vs Quick Clips & Quotes

Comparing the Standard and Quick Methods of Creating Quotes and Clips

This ScreenCast compares the Standard method of creating Quotes and Clips to the Quick method. (5:13, Transana 3.0)

Common Analytic Tasks with Coded Data

Manipulating Quotes, Clips, and Snapshots in Collections

How to analyze video or audio data using Clips in Collections. (7:50, Transana 2.51 shown)

NOTE: This ScreenCast shows only the manipulation of Clips in Collections. Please note that you can use these same methods with Quotes (Transana 3.0 and later) and Snapshots (Transana 2.6 and later) as well.

Common Coding Tasks

How to alter codes for existing clips, other common coding tasks in Transana (7:31, Transana 2.53 shown)

NOTE: This ScreenCast shows only coding of Clips in Collections. Please note that you can use these same methods with Quotes (Transana 3.0 and later) and Snapshots (Transana 2.6 and later) as well.