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Qualitative Data Analysis and QDA Tools

Information for Temple students, researchers, and instructors interested in conducting qualitative data analysis

QualCoder

QualCoder Tutorial

QualCoder 3.7 Part 1

The developer of QualCoder provides an overview of the program, its menus, settings and features, demonstrates how to use QualCoder 3.7. Learn how to import different file types, create case and attributes, and link files to cases and attributes, code text, image and video, search, and run reports.

QualCoder 3.7 Part 2

This is the second part of the QualCoder developer's demonstration.  The video covers AI coding and AI Chat in QualCoder 3.7, viewing text coded to multiple codes (16 min.) and searching options, exact match autocoding (19 min), and code relations reports (22 min.) for codes in proximity and overlapped.

QualCoder and AI

QualCoder AI integration

QualCoder 3.6 has AI assisted coding and AI chat. You can now organize codes in graph, run code co-occurrence and code by text segments reports, and automatically code survey answers to a code and link them to individual respondents. Temple Libraries QualCoder Spring 2025 Workshops explored these new features.

QualCoder 3.7 has more models for AI Integration. New features include saving your column and row settings and attributes filters and reloading them.  Learn more about QualCoder 3.7 new features.

Steps for running a local AI model in QualCoder 3.7 with Ollama

The GIF demonstrates how to set up the AI Integration for Ollama Local AI in QualCoder 3.7.  Download Steps for using llama3.1 with QualCoder 3.7.

The GIF shows the settings for Ollama in QualCoder which is described in linked steps for using llama3.1 with QualCoder 3.7

Windows Installation

Uninstalling 3.6 and Installing QualCoder 3.7 for Windows

This video demonstrates how to uninstall QualCoder 3.6 and install QualCoder 3.7 for Windows. For enabling AI with Blablador, and installing VLC media player to view and code audio and videos, view those segments in Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder.  See QualCoder AI Integration section above for enabling a local AI model.

Uninstalling and Installing QualCoder 3.6 for Windows

This video demonstrates how to uninstall and install QualCoder 3.6 for Windows. For enabling AI, and installing VLC media player to view and code audio and videos, view those segments in Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder.

MAC Installation

Installing QualCoder 3.7 for Mac OS

Follow the installation steps for QualCoder 3.6  for MAC but download and use the latest release (QualCoder 3.7)

Important:  Make sure you have installed any MAC OS updates before starting the installation.

When you first try to run the program, you will get a pop up warning.  For new silicon processor you may have the option "Done" or "Move to trash. Click "Done. Next, go to Go to Settings and select Privacy and Security.  Scroll down until you see a message stating QualCoder was prevented from starting. Click on "open anyway". You may be prompted to enter your password and may need to click "Open" again.  After entering your password, just wait for the program to open up. It may take several seconds.

Installing QualCoder 3.6 for Mac OS

This video demonstrates how to install QualCoder 3.6 on a Mac OS.  For enabling AI, and installing VLC media player to view and code audio and videos, view those segments in Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder.

QualCoder Spring 2025 Workshops

These videos are Spring 2025 workshop recordings or are tutorials for the workshops. Please note that changes may have been made to QualCoder with newer versions since the videos were made. For example, in QualCoder 3.7, you can save and reload filters.

QualCoder Workshop Series Recordings

This video demonstrates how to install and launch the free QualCoder qualitative data analysis software, enable AI integration, and manage qualitative data projects, files and data. Since the video was made, QualCoder 3.6 has been released. 

Importing Survey for Same Cases

When you have different data, you want to be able to link them to the same cases.  In QualCoder 3.5 and earlier versions, QualCoder UNIQUE case constraint prevents the import of surveys with case names that already exist in the project. This video demo, using the pre-released QualCoder v. 3.6, suggests one way to address this problem. Since the video was made, the developer has removed the UNIQUE constraint for case name in survey import in the to be released version 3.6. A warning stills appear, but the survey will be imported. Column headers (attributes) and values do not replace existing headers but additional column headers and values will be added.

Managing Code Color in QualCoder

This video demonstrates how to change a code color as you code. It also goes over changing a category of color with Colour Scheme and viewing color from different color blindness perspectives. QualCoder 3.6 has a color palette icon in Coding menus to allow you to select the default color for new codes.

Importing References into QualCoder

This video shows how to export a reference from Zotero and import it into QualCoder.  Qualcoder does not import the abstract as a separate file so the video shows three way to create a file or memo.

Autocoding Abstracts from a RIS File

Besides the three ways shown in the video on importing references, you can also import the RIS file in Manage Files and use autocode by start and end marks (the fourth magic wand) to auto code all abstract to a code. Enter AB  - in first box (start) and DA  -  in second box (end).

Autocode to speaker and answers in QualCoder