The Visual Tools in MAXQDA

Date

Friday, March 4th, 2016, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

For anyone …

interested to learn about visualizations in MAXQDA and how to use them for their own research.

Requirements

MAXQDA basics taught in the workshops “Analysing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA Starter I” and preferably “Analysing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA Starter II“: You should be familiar with the interface, be able to code texts, retrieve coded segments and write memos.

Overview

The workshop offers an overview of MAXQDAs visual tools and how they are used in research. Participants will practice creating visualizations with example data and discuss the potentials and limits of each visual tool.

Goal

After completing this workshop, participants know which Visual Tools MAXQDA offers and how to use them for their own research. They are able to create visualizations with the Code Matrix Browser, the Code Relations Browser, the Document Portrait and the Document Comparison Chart.   Participants are able to work with graphical representations of project elements in MAXMaps and use MAXMaps model templates.

Content

  • Identifying code frequencies with the Code Matrix Browser
  • Identifying overlapping codes with the Code Relations Browser
  • Visualizing documents with the Document Portrait
  • Comparing documents with the Document Comparison Chart
  • Exploring code occurrence in documents with the Codeline
  • Visualize project elements with MAXMAps
  • Using Model Templates in MAXMaps

Language

English

Notebook

Please bring a laptop with MAXQDA 12 (Windows or Mac) installed to this workshop. The free demo version is sufficient.

Your Instructor

05-JuliaJulia Gerson has a degree in educational science and leads the communications department at VERBI Software Consult Sozialforschung GmbH. During her time as a research fellow of the Marburger Arbeitsgruppe für Methoden & Evaluation (MAGMA) she was responsible for multiple research projects (all using MAXQDA) and started teaching MAXQDA workshops and webinars in 2010.

Place

Haus der Wirtschaft, bbw Akademie für Betriebswirtschaftliche Weiterbildung, Berlin

Price

120 € (reduced rate for students and PhD candidates: 80 €)

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Analysing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA – Starter Complete
Conducting Literature Reviews with MAXQDA
Mixing Methods and Data Types: Analysing Open-ended Questions with MAXQDA