Qualitative Research: Analysis Tools

• Text Analysis guide
  Start with this comprehensive guide to sources, tips for cleaning/parsing text, analysis and visualization tools.

• Text Mining as a Research Tool
  Example: Mining the Dispatch (Richmond Civil War newspaper) used unsupervised machine learning

• NaCTeM (National Centre for Text Mining, UK)
  The first publicly-funded text mining centre in the world provides text mining services for the UK academic community. From the University of Manchester.

NVivo helps you manage, analyze and report on unstructured data; including text documents (e.g. surveys, news articles, or field notes), audio, and video. Newest edition (10) has a capture tool for scraping web pages and social media.

• Free download via Duke OIT 
• Available on computers in Data & Visualization Services, Perkins Library

See also:

• NVivo online training
• NVivo webinars

• UNC's Qualitative Research
  The Odum Institute at UNC provides some specialized computer programs for text analysis, as well as training and consultation

• Atlas.ti

• MaxQDA
  no Duke site license

• dedoose
  inexpensive Web-based tool

SSRI (Social Science Research Institute)
For workshops see Courses & Workshops box.

Short Courses from the Odum Institute at UNC
By instructor permission; Paul Mihas welcomes Duke affiliates in any of his sessions.