Video Tutorials for Analyzing Qualitative Data

In December 2008, I began a series of video tutorials on working with MAXQDA to manage and analyze qualitative data. Over the next several months, I will continue to add new tutorials in this series and introduce other software to support the summer course I co-teach on Systematic Methods for Analyzing Qualitative Data. That course was initially developed by Gery Ryan of RAND Health; I now teach it with Amber Wutich of Arizona State University.

This page collects the video tutorials in one place. Each tutorial is available in high- and low-resolution versions. The tutorials I have planned for the future are shown in gray. I welcome your feedback. Please leave a comment below to let me know what you like or don’t like about the tutorials—or to suggest other topics you’d like to see covered.

Working with MAXQDA

Tutorial Data Set

To follow along with the tutorials below, download the tutorial data set, a collection of oral histories from the Civil Rights Documentation Project at the University of Southern Mississippi. The data set includes 20 oral history transcripts in rich-text (.rtf) format and an attribute file saved in both text (.txt) and Excel (.xls) formats.

Episode 1 – Getting Started with the Interface

This episode is a basic introduction to the interface of MAXQDA.

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Episode 2 – Importing and Organizing Text

This episode focuses on the first steps in setting up your project by importing, creating, editing, and organizing texts in MAXQDA.

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Episode 3 – Attributes

This episode focuses on how to include information about the attributes of your data sources in MAXQDA.

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