Introduction and Overview of Transana

A quick overview of the scope of what you can do with Transana.  This lays the groundwork for the following sessions.

Bringing Data Into Transana

We will cover how to bring raw data into Transana and how to prepare for analysis.  Text, PDF, still image, audio, and video data will be demonstrated.

We will also discuss Transana’s options for automated transcription of media data, with an emphasis on the advantages of each approach.

Manual Transcription

Transana offers many tools for manual translation. Even with the advent of automated transcription, researchers need to know how to correct transcripts and add Time Codes.

Transcription as an Analytic Act

There are many ways to transcribe media data beyond verbatim transcription. Transana facilitates a wide range of transcript types that can be useful in different analytic scenarios.

Assigning Meaning to Selections : Coding and Categorization

Transana provides flexible and powerful tools for assigning analytic meaning to selections of your text, PDF, still image, and media data.  This day’s sessions will explore the overlapping systems Transana offers to help you make sense of your data, Coding and Categorization.  These systems provide different tools that allow researchers to address the specific needs of their research, to fully support different qualitative techniques and methodologies, and to adapt to differing analytic needs as the qualitative analytic process moves forward.

Coding is the process of developing a coding system and applying codes to analytic selections within your data.  This system can be fast and flexible.

Categorization is the process of sorting your analytic selections into meaningful groups.  This system can be powerful, visual, and easily interpreted.

Together, they offer a powerful, flexible set of analytic moves that allow you to represent your data the way that works best for you, for your methodology, and for your analytic needs.

Making Sense of Coded and Categorized Data

You will learn how to use Transana’s Reports, Maps, and Graphs, which provide a number of tools for making sense out of data that we have coded and categorized.

Searches

We will explore Transana’s Search tools that allow you to explore your coding, categorization, and selection text in a variety of sophisticated ways.  We will also explore Transana’s Search Matrix tool.

Transana’s Writing Tools

Transana provides tools for a various kinds of analytic writing.  We will explore Notes for writing analytic memos, the Notes Browser for exploring Notes, and we will introduce Research Journals.  Research Journals allow analytic and collaborative writing within the analytic tool, including creating first drafts of results and findings.  We will look at the importance of hyperlinks as a means to stay close to your qualitative data all the way through the qualitative writing-up process.

Advanced Analysis of Media Data

While it is likely we will have mentioned these techniques in passing in earlier Workshop sessions, today we will focus on details of

* Analysis of online survey data.

* Capturing and using multiple simultaneous media files to analyze complex environments.

* Using multiple simultaneous transcripts to implement analytic layers.

* Making it possible for multiple researchers to simultaneously collaborate on qualitative analysis.

* Using qualitative analysis of video as a teaching tool.

* Change propagation.

Questions, Questions, and More Questions.

I’ll keep answering questions and demonstrating techniques as long as you keep asking questions.