weft qda users - Feb 2011 - [Weft QDA users] large data set, co-occurance and line numbers

Dear all,

I am trying to choose a QDA program for a large study with 120 participants
interviewed at two time points. I really like how intuitive Weft QDA is but
have questions before committing to the program. I apologize if this has
been covered here already -- I could not find answers to the following
questions.

1) Will Weft QDA be able to handle a pretty large data set of 120 (90 min)
interviews?

2) The transcriptions have line numbers by the narrative that I would like
to keep in the analysis and coding. Is there a way to keep these line
numbers when I convert to .txt files? When I tried it the line numbers went
away.

3) Can I run searches for co-occurring themes. For example, can I have Weft
bring up all the times the themes "race" and "access to
care" come up in the
codes?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yours, Rita

-- 
Rita M. Melendez, PhD, MS
Associate Professor and Chair
Sexuality Studies Department
Research Associate
Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality
San Francisco State University
835 Market Street, Suite 517
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel. 415.817.4507
fax 415.817.4540
email: rita.melendez at gmail.com
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Hi Rita

On 04/02/2011 15:42, Rita Melendez wrote:
> I am trying to choose a QDA program for a large study with 120
> participants interviewed at two time points.
Sounds like you''ll be investing a lot of time in analysing these data. 
I''d suggest you also consider QDA software that''s updated and
supported.
If you do go with Weft, make sure you keep regular separate backups.
> 1) Will Weft QDA be able to handle a pretty large data set of 120 (90
> min) interviews?
It shouldn''t run into any problems here.
> 2) The transcriptions have line numbers by the narrative that I would
> like to keep in the analysis and coding. Is there a way to keep these
> line numbers when I convert to .txt files? When I tried it the line
> numbers went away.
What format are your transcriptions in to start with? e.g. Word files? 
It sounds like something else is displaying line numbers for you apart 
from the main text.

This isn''t really a Weft question, but there should be a few different 
ways to add line numbers to text after it''s converted and before
it''s
imported to Weft - have a look on the web.
> 3) Can I run searches for co-occurring themes. For example, can I have
> Weft bring up all the times the themes "race" and "access to
care" come
> up in the codes?
The ''Query'' tool can do this - search for CODED BY
''race'' AND CODED BY
''access''. It''s in the Search menu.

best
alex

Hi Rita,

if you''re not sure about Weft for this purpose, you could try Opencode
(version 3.6 now) or otherwise TAMS Analyzer if you can work on an OSX/Linux
platform. These are all freeware. Otherwise, you could consider using dedoose or
saturate, both web-based services for a relaitively small fee that enable
collaborative coding if I am correct.

sincerely, Gisbert van Ginkel. ILS, The Netherlands.

----- "Alex Fenton" <alex at pressure.to> wrote:
> From: "Alex Fenton" <alex at pressure.to>
> To: "Discussion and help for users of Weft QDA"
<weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 5, 2011 8:39:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Weft QDA users] large data set, co-occurance and line numbers
>
> Hi Rita
> 
> On 04/02/2011 15:42, Rita Melendez wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to choose a QDA program for a large study with 120
> > participants interviewed at two time points.
> 
> Sounds like you''ll be investing a lot of time in analysing these
data.
> 
> I''d suggest you also consider QDA software that''s updated
and
> supported. 
> If you do go with Weft, make sure you keep regular separate backups.
> 
> > 1) Will Weft QDA be able to handle a pretty large data set of 120
> (90
> > min) interviews?
> 
> It shouldn''t run into any problems here.
> 
> > 2) The transcriptions have line numbers by the narrative that I
> would
> > like to keep in the analysis and coding. Is there a way to keep
> these
> > line numbers when I convert to .txt files? When I tried it the line
> > numbers went away.
> 
> What format are your transcriptions in to start with? e.g. Word files?
> 
> It sounds like something else is displaying line numbers for you apart
> 
> from the main text.
> 
> This isn''t really a Weft question, but there should be a few
different
> 
> ways to add line numbers to text after it''s converted and before
it''s
> 
> imported to Weft - have a look on the web.
> 
> > 3) Can I run searches for co-occurring themes. For example, can I
> have
> > Weft bring up all the times the themes "race" and
"access to care"
> come
> > up in the codes?
> 
> The ''Query'' tool can do this - search for CODED BY
''race'' AND CODED BY
> 
> ''access''. It''s in the Search menu.
> 
> best
> alex
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