Working with MAXQDA – Episode 3
Posted by Lance Gravlee on December 14th, 2008 in Text | 9 Comments »
Here is the third installment in the video tutorial series on working with MAXQDA. This episode focuses on how to include information about the attributes of your data sources in MAXQDA.
The tutorial project uses a set of oral history transcripts from the Civil Rights Documentation Project at the University of Southern Mississippi. If you’d like to follow along with the tutorial, you can download the oral history transcripts and the attributes file here.
Working with MAXQDA – 3 from Lance Gravlee on Vimeo.
The version of the video embedded here from Vimeo is relatively low resolution. If you have a high-speed Internet connection, you may prefer to view the high-resolution version.
I invite your feedback. Please leave a comment to post your questions or suggestions about how to make the tutorials more useful.
9 Responses
This is clear, concise and immensely helpful. What an efficient way to share information! Thanks for taking the time to do this, Dr. Gravlee!
I’m trying MAXQDA for 30 days, you pieces here are very helpful and look forward to future ones.
Thanks for the positive feedback, Nikki and Don. More tutorials are on the way. What aspects of using the software would you most like to see to get up and running?
Hi Dr. Gravlee, I happened on your website after reading Lewis and Silver’s book, “Using Software in Qualitative Research”. I am almost finished my interviews (30) and given my research, I feel that MAXQDA may be an excellent choice. I thank you very much for both your talent and time in producing these tutorials and I await your further tutorials.
Thanks once again,
Ann
Your tutorial is great! I wish I could keep watching other episodes.
I have encountered a problem which the online support staff could not figure out. I wonder if you have ever experienced a similar problem. I will try to explain as clearly as I can.
First, I color code my text. Second, I edit the color coded text (e.g., correct a typo) . Third, I decide that I want to delete all of the color codes. Then, I find out that not all of the codes can be deleted. Any codes above the corrections (edits) will be deleted. However, any codes below the corrections (edits) will remain (icons will be gone, but highlights stay).
Is this issue unique to me? Or, have you ever had this issue? The only solution for this problem that I know is to stop editing after coding. I wish I could understand this problem.
@Miki: Thanks for the feedback on the tutorials. I hope to post the next episode within a few weeks.
I’m afraid I don’t have an answer to your problem with color-coded text. I have seen something similar: sometimes when deleting color codes, the highlighting remains in place. It seems to go away only after opening a different document and then coming back to the document with the deleted codes.
Let’s hope the folks at MAXQDA can figure out what’s happening behind the scenes!
Dear Prof. Gravlee,
Thank you very much for the MAXQDA video tutorials, I watched them with great pleasure. I can only agree with what the previous commentors said. They are really well-made: well-structured, concise and easy to grasp. I am really looking forward to watching the episodes 4 – 10 already outlined on your homepage.
Thanks for all your efforts and please keep up the good work.
Regards,
Christoph Burger, Vienna, Austria
Thank you for the tutorials! I am eagerly awaiting #4.
[...] with the interface (7:59) • Importing, Creating, Editing and Organizing Texts (9:28) and • Attributes (17:53). Keep checking back as new episodes are on the [...]