Computer Aided Data Analysis
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Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis
Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis offers an invaluable guide to the rapidly developing arena of research practice. It will be essential reading for researchers and graduate students across the social sciences who are engaged in qualitative research.
Computer-Aided Data Analysis
Designed for non-specialist computer users, here is an introduction to the data analysis techniques in common use in the applied sciences. Provides efficient procedures for analyzing a particular set of data, offering clear, complete treatments of the initial steps in computer data analysis, multivariate data analysis, fundamentals of computer plotting, enhanced display techniques, advanced statistical techniques such as geostatistics, and modeling and data interpretation.
Qualitative Computing: Using Software for Qualitative Data Analysis
As qualitative researchers incorporate computer assistance into their analytic approaches, important questions arise about the adoption of new technology. Is it worth learning computer-assisted methods? Will the pay-off be sufficient to justify the investment? Which programs are worth learning? What are the effects on the analysis process? This book complements the existing literature by giving a detailed account of the use of four major programs in analyzing the same data. Priority is given to the tasks of qualitative analysis rather than to program capability and the programs are treated as tools rather than as a discipline to be acquired. The key is not what the programs allow researcher to do, but whether the tasks that researchers need to undertake are facilitated by the software. Thus the study develops a user-centred approach to the adoption of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. The author emphasises qualitative analysis as a creative craft, but one which must increasingly be subject to rigorous methodological scrutiny. The adoption of computer-aided methods offers opportunities, but also dangers and ultimately this book is about the scientific qualitative research. Written in a distinctive and succinct style, this book will be valuable to social science researchers and students interested in qualitative research and in the potential for computer-assisted analysis.