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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 Features

QualCoder 3.6 has 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. Learn more about QualCoder 3.6 features.

Temple Libraries QualCoder Spring 2025 Workshops will explore these new features.

QualCoder 3.5 features

The developer of QualCoder demonstrates features of release 3.5.

QualCoder Installation

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.

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.

QualCoder Spring 2025 Workshops

These videos are tutorials for the 2025 Spring QualCoder series or will be from workshop recordings. Please note that changes may have been made to QualCoder since the videos were made.

Register for Spring 2025 workshops or Request a past workshop recording for workshops that do not have a link below.

  1. QualCoder for Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) Feb 4 
  2. Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder Feb 6
  3. Research Design and Data Collection with QualCoder Feb 18 
  4. Transcription and Formatting Files for Qualitative Data Analysis Feb 21 
  5. Coding Scheme and Codebooks with QualCoder Feb 27 
  6. Coding Strategies and Data Processing with QualCoder Mar 13 
  7. Manual and Auto Coding and Querying Mar 20 
  8. AI Coding and Querying Mar 27 
  9. Organizing, Synthesizing and Displaying Data Apr 1
  10. Writing and Disseminating Results for Qualitative Data Analysis Apr 10

Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder

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.

For Windows QualCoder 3.5 or QualCoder 3.6, if Edge or Chrome downloads the exe file as unconfirmed "CRDOWNLOAD" type, try using Firefox to download.

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