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ATLAS.ti 8 AND ATLAS.ti DATA ANALYSIS WITH ATLAS.ti IS EASIER, FASTER AND MORE COMPREHENSIVE THAN EVER BEFORE. ATLAS.ti is the essential tool to help make sense of your research data. Highlight, annotate, and code the data segments that grab your attention. Write down your insights and interpretations, and visualize graphically how the puzzle pieces are coming together. Interrogate the data qualitatively and quantitatively within and across cases. And produce rich outputs that you can easily incorporate into report writing. SUPPORTED DOCUMENT TYPES AND DATA IMPORT Text, PDF, audio, video, graphic and geo-data documents can be easily analyzed with ATLAS.ti. You can also import data from reference management software such as Endnote, Zotero and Mendeley, as well as data from Twitter, Evernote and surveys in Excel format. A unique feature of ATLAS.ti is its margin area where concepts, descriptions, interpretations and linkages are easily accessible. Through the margin area, you will always remain close to the data. ATLAS.ti 8 Windows and Mac are two-way compatible. For optimum cross-platform collaboration, a project can be shared back and forth between Windows and Mac computers. Text PDF Images Audio Video Geodata Twitter Endnote Evernote Working fluidly across different kinds of information sources. Integrate different types of data into your project and keep live linkages to the sources. PDF document Automated coding Word document Live link The interactive margin area: quotations, codes, memos and hyperlinks Twitter import
THE COMPONENTS OF THE ANALYSIS PROJECT THE ATLAS.ti WORKSPACE In ATLAS.ti, you can work one document at a time, or with multiple documents side-by-side, allowing for rich comparative analysis. The interactive margin area is the core workspace for (re)viewing, linking and editing selected data segments, codes, memos, and hyperlinks. WORD FREQUENCY COUNTS With ATLAS.ti, you can produce word frequency counts within and across text documents. Get an overview of the words that study participants use and identify patterns across groups of participants. Word frequencies can be shown as an ATLAS.ti table, a word cloud, or exported to Excel. If you are only interested in a specific set of words, you can apply stop and go lists. Documents PDF Image Video Margin area Words Frequencies Exclude words Export to Excel Display all relevant data sources, keywords, links and notes on one single screen. Word frequency table in ATLAS.ti Mac: Counting words across documents. Region Network Margin Area Memo Word cloud Word frequency count Co-occurence Table Visualization of links Work with floated or docked windows as it suits your personal preferences and analytic requirements. Word lists, word clouds and other forms of visualization
CODING Coding in ATLAS.ti cannot be easier: Just select a data segment and drag and drop your codes onto it, or simply create a new code and attach it to your segments. All codes can be thoroughly defined, colored, grouped and linked to each other and to other components of the analysis project. WRITING A successful analysis project requires writing. In ATLAS.ti, writing is integrated with all other components of the project. As you reflect on your data, or an insight comes to mind, you can immediately write it down and connect it to the data. No valuable thoughts will be lost. Code Inspector Codes with associated information Code groups Memo for a data segment Quotations linked to codes The Code Manager allows you to keep track of all your coding and data lilnkages. A memo in ATLAS.ti Mac: In dialogue with the data. List of quotations for a selected code Margin area List of codes Quotation preview List of quotations Quotation preview Quotation comment Memo Comment Get immediate feedback when you code. See in context what has been said in regards to a given concept. ATLAS.ti provides writing tools for every step in the analyitc process.
ANALYSIS ATLAS.ti provides several tools that allow you to analyze your research data qualitatively and quantitatively. These are some of them: CODE CO-OCCURRENCE TOOLS Code co-occurrences are associations between codes. They tell us about relationships between concepts as well as about the context. For example, you may ask: Within what context are study participants expressing satisfaction with services? or When people are expressing satisfaction with services, what else are they saying? Code co-occurrences can be explored qualitatively and quantitatively. VISUALIZATION In ATLAS.ti you can diagram, your interpretations as well as the linkages between the different components of the analysis project. This helps you move smoothly between exploring individual details in the data to building an integrated view of the whole. Hit count Codes Retrieve co-occurring data segments in context. Code Quotation Document The Co-occurrence Table in ATLAS.ti Mac: From numbers to meanings. A network view in ATLAS.ti Mac: linkages between codes, quotations and documents of different kind. Radial layout Co-occuring codes Quotation where codes co-occur Organic layout with polyline routing Hierachical left to right layout with organic rerouting Gain quick insights about where codes co-occur using the Code Cooccurence Explorer. ATLAS.ti provides a variety of layouts to visualize your data.
QUERYING DATA The Query Tool allows you to interrogate the data by codes and across documents using a set of query rules and operators. For example, you may ask: What barriers to access services did study participants encounter? Or, you may ask: What did the people interviewed in Sunnyside Neighborhood say about economic issues and cultural competence as barriers to access services? These and many other kinds of questions can be answered using the ATLAS.ti Query Tool. CODE FREQUENCY COUNTS You can create matrices showing how much has been said or written about a particular idea or topic within or across documents. This matrix can shed light on things such as what themes are more, or less, common in the data. Matrices can be exported to Excel. Export to Excel Query operators and rules Codes Quotation Preview Code frequencies Codes and code groups Document and document groups Powerful filtering options allow you to explore your data in depth. The Code-Document Table in ATLAS.ti Mac: Counting code frequencies across documents. Scope Filter area Query Viewing results in context Selection area Code frequencies across documents Result list Combine queries with variables and view results in context. Gain insights by comparing and contrasting cases and groups.
NEW IN ATLAS.ti 8 ATLAS.ti comes with several new and improved functions and procedures, some of these are the following: INTERFACE ATLAS.ti 8 for Windows offers a flexible and dynamic layout. Now you can work with your project documents, memos, analysis tools and networks side-by-side, or one above the other. The new interface is intuitive and allows for a deeper immersion in the data. REFERENCE MANAGER AND TWITTER IMPORT Start your literature review with the reference management software of your choice and expand it with ATLAS.ti. REFERENCE MANAGER IMPORT Coded video document Navigator Document Manager after importing the data Network Memo Dialog for importing reference manager data Arrange the interface the way you like to display what you need. GEO DOCUMENTS Geo documents now have a margin area where everything related to the documents is displayed. TWITTER IMPORT You can also import data from Twitter, searching by hashtags or keywords. Once imported, tweets are automatically coded, organized and displayed in attractive social network visualizations. Coded geo document Browse location and look at different views Snapshot Visualization of Twitter networks Automatic coding of the Twitter data Imported Tweets Set geo tags in Open Street map, code geo snapshots and view detail by browsing to the geo location. Analysing Twitter data with ATLAS.ti
TEXT SEARCH The new Text Search tool allows to search for specific words or combination of words across the entire project. The search results are shown in an interactive list, allowing you to go back to the source through a simple click. FOCUS GROUP CODING ATLAS.ti recognizes speakers in focus group transcript and can automatically code speaker units. Results of focus group coding Search options Text search results Key words in context Exchanging projects between Windows and Mac computers. Powerful keywords in context search. TEAM COLLABORATION SPLIT CODE FUNCTION With the new Split Code function, you can split a single code into a set of sub-codes. This facilitates the process of building themes and categories. Teams can collaborate effortlessly within and across platforms through the Project Merge feature. You can also check intercoder agreement a) by comparing the codings of different coders in terms of content (i.e., qualitatively), and b) by asking ATLAS.ti for an intercoder agreement coefficient. You can calculate percent agreement, the Holsti index, and various Krippendorff alpha coefficients. ATLAS.ti supports the new QDC standard for exchanging code books between different software packages. Quotations of sub-code Resulting category with sub-codes in Code Manager Check disagreements and work towards a common understanding Splitting a code into sub codes. Testing intercoder agreement.
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