KJ: I wouldn’t say the use of Big Data is one of the strengths of NVivo, but it is getting better all the time and I suspect NVivo will continue to allow for more functionality with Big Data. Can NVivo help qualitative researchers who are using Big Data? What about visual data, online data, media, physical artifacts? The goal is to provide different ways to access and think about Queries to help meet different learning styles. In addition, the chapter on Queries provides extensive visuals and comparisons among them. To augment the reader’s exploration of Queries, we include at least one Query in context in each chapter (providing a practical application without information overload). We provide a lot of examples and ideas for both, really pushing the book beyond what you see in Help files. I think it’s always been the Classification system and the Queries. What features of NVivoare difficult to learn and use, and how will your book help researchers to move forward with their data analysis? This is truly a completely reworked edition. Finally, our addition of a Takeaways section at the end of each chapter includes – in addition to other material – practice questions that instructors can use in their qualitative methods courses. Our standardized reorganization of each chapter allows readers easily dip in and out of relevant sections seamlessly, allowing for a customized experience by each user. KJ. Thanks to the use of a different font color in the book, we have visually differentiated universal instructions, Mac instructions, and Windows instructions, which means that Mac and Windows users can even be in the same training, following the same instructions. Can you tell us briefly what you've updated in the third edition? The new edition of your book, Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo, is now available.

In the next post we will hear from Susanne Friese, author of Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS.ti. In this post Kristi Jackson, co-author with Pat Bazeley, discusses Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo.

Two important books that guide researchers who want to use these CAQDAS are newly updated.

You've collected documents and images, you have recordings and piles of interview transcripts.now what? NVivo and Atlas ti are popular software options for analyzing diverse types of data for qualitative research.

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