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Tools and Utilities

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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

Analyzing Media-based Data

Analyzing Still Image Data

Summary

Common Analytic Tasks with Coded Data

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

Media Conversion

Transana 2.50 and higher have a special Media Conversion tool. This can often help with media files that don’t work right in Transana. (7:12, Transana 2.50 alpha release shown)

File Management and Update Database

This ScreenCast demonstrates Transana’s File Management tool and shows how to handle the “File cannot be found” image for media files and still images. (4:54, Transana 3.00 shown)

Find Missing Files

What to do when you get the “File cannot be found” error for media and image files in Transana 3.20. This tool also helps when you move or rename media and image files. (5:57, Transana 3.20 shown.)

Database and Codebook Import and Export

This ScreenCast demonstrates how to import full databases into and out of Transana. (6:22, Transana 3.31 shown.)