Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode as QDA-Software?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Sven Bretfeld sven.bretf...@gmx.ch wrote: Org mode would be a nice base for bringing a good QDA-Software to the world of free software, isn't it? QDAS is a special type of software for qualitative data analysis[¹], mostly used in Sociology and related fields of Science. Existing programs like Atlas.ti[²] and MaxQDA[³] are what I deem the essence of proprietary stuff: very expensive, elitist and utterly unfree (but widely used by research groups who have enough money at their disposal). Interestingly, I saw ads for MaxQDA plastered everywhere at the American Anthropological Association conference recently, and immediately thought that the best way to go about implementing a free alternative would be on top of Emacs. Really all it would take would be a few functions to add user tags as text properties, and then some stuff for browsing those tags and doing some simple analysis on them. I mentioned this possibility to my wife, who is the linguistic anthropologist in the family, and hence the prospective user of this, and she categorically shot down the idea of using emacs for handling her data, on the basis of user-unfriendliness. But it's interesting to see that our thoughts are running along the same lines. I'd love to work on this kind of thing (whether based on emacs or as a standalone GPL application), but I'm afraid I can't do it unless I can be paid for it. :( ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode as QDA-Software?
Sven Bretfeld sven.bretf...@gmx.ch writes: AFAIK, there is only one piece of QDA software available for Linux, gTAMS Analyzer, which is quite awkward in my opinion. RQDA is an R package. I have used it for a project. Because it is part of R it is cross-platform, which is a plus. See: http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org Henri-Paul -- Henri-Paul Indiogine hindiog...@gmail.com Texas AM University http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~enrico ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Org-mode as QDA-Software?
Hi all, especially you org developers out there Org mode would be a nice base for bringing a good QDA-Software to the world of free software, isn't it? QDAS is a special type of software for qualitative data analysis[¹], mostly used in Sociology and related fields of Science. Existing programs like Atlas.ti[²] and MaxQDA[³] are what I deem the essence of proprietary stuff: very expensive, elitist and utterly unfree (but widely used by research groups who have enough money at their disposal). AFAIK, there is only one piece of QDA software available for Linux, gTAMS Analyzer, which is quite awkward in my opinion. I often advocate QDAS to students and PhD students for managing Discourse Analysis projects, and its always embarrassing to push them to expensive programs. But I think org-mode is just one step away from being a powerful QDAS, especially with org-babel, I think. This lack in the world of free software might be only a small addon-package away. It would be the first cross-platform solution, and group functionalities could be implemented via git, CVS or SVN. To my regret, I'm just a devoted user, in no way a developer. Is any developer out there who deems this a worthwhile project? Students all over the world would be grateful (if we manage to make it known via Google and Wikipedia). Greetings Sven [¹] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research. [²] http://www.atlasti.com/en/. [³] http://www.maxqda.com/. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode as QDA-Software?
2009/12/18 Sven Bretfeld sven.bretf...@gmx.ch: Hi all, especially you org developers out there Org mode would be a nice base for bringing a good QDA-Software to the world of free software, isn't it? QDAS is a special type of software for qualitative data analysis[¹], mostly used in Sociology and related fields of Science. Existing programs like Atlas.ti[²] and MaxQDA[³] are what I deem the essence of proprietary stuff: very expensive, elitist and utterly unfree (but widely used by research groups who have enough money at their disposal). AFAIK, there is only one piece of QDA software available for Linux, gTAMS Analyzer, which is quite awkward in my opinion. I often advocate QDAS to students and PhD students for managing Discourse Analysis projects, and its always embarrassing to push them to expensive programs. But I think org-mode is just one step away from being a powerful QDAS, especially with org-babel, I think. This lack in the world of free software might be only a small addon-package away. It would be the first cross-platform solution, and group functionalities could be implemented via git, CVS or SVN. To my regret, I'm just a devoted user, in no way a developer. Is any developer out there who deems this a worthwhile project? Students all over the world would be grateful (if we manage to make it known via Google and Wikipedia). Greetings Sven [¹] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research. [²] http://www.atlasti.com/en/. [³] http://www.maxqda.com/. Without a clearer understanding of what features you want, I don't think anyone's going to be able to answer you to your or their satisfaction. From skimming the first section of http://www.maxqda.com/products/functionstab (Data management) it looks like orgmode already supports most of these requirements. The latter two, related to weighting paragraphs of text (presumably to mark up relevance?) are not trivially supported unless you wanted to make them subsections and assign them Properties. I've never used this software but the list of features seems very much a grab-bag of stuff all glommed together into one big product with little attention paid to the core requirements: maybe some clear thinking about what the fundamentals of qualitative data analysis tools are will prove useful. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
