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I echo Heather’s experience with Mendeley, but that being said, I still prefer it over to Zotero simply because it just works much faster, I don’t care for Microsoft Word plugins. I am a community adviser and even I am a bit frustrated on feedback time.
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I tag each participant’s file so that it will be searchable. I write a participant summary and includes info on where and how I met the participant and their contact information.
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For example, 10_BJ is participant #10 who I met in Beijing. I drop in any pictures I’ve taken on my cellphone or Canon S100. I create a file on each participant and assign them a number with the city I met them in.
#Nvivo vs maxqda mac#
I have developed an aversion to anything that claims to be a “qualitative analysis tool.” These tools are lacking in user friendliness, collaborative features, platform diversity, and service support. If it doesn’t run on a mac and if the software’s website is unusable – that’s already a clue.Īs far as fieldwork tools go, hardly anything drives an ethnographer more crazy than trying to find the most appropriate fieldwork tools. Of all the ethnography courses I’ve taken and all the books, dissertation, and papers I’ve read, none of them go into depth on the tools that ethnographers use to support their process. I suspect that one of the reasons why ethnographers don’t write about the tools they use is because they may use an ad hoc process that is messier and less structured than they’d like to admit.
#Nvivo vs maxqda software#
I’ve tried all the coding software possible for qualitative research, but there is no app that fulfills my needs. And all I can think is, how am I going to analyze all this data without going crazy? I don’t have a team of people to work with as I usually do on projects. Now that I’ve finished data gathering, I am no longer in the excitement of fieldwork. But that’s just one part of the long path of fieldwork analysis. For example, last month, I wrote in depth about my use of Instagram to live fieldnote. I’ve only figured out parts of the process. Sometimes this upsets me and sometimes I just say whatever. So this is when I admit here that I have no perfect process. Now I have all these new apps I want to try for data analysis! For the August issue of Ethnography Matters, Jenna, Heather, and Rachelle have written great posts about their fieldnote tools in the Tools we Use series.