Nvivo 9 essentials
Subtitle: your guide to the world's most powerful qualitative data analysis software
By: by Bengt M. Edhlund
Publisher: Form & Kunskap AB
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stallarholmen, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781446707623
Subjects: Qualitative research; Data processing; Social sciences; Research; Qualitative Research; Social Sciences; NVivo (Computer file)
Description: "A user guide that helps you gain a better understanding of the new NVivo 9. Step-by-step instructions are combined with helpful comments to explain the terms used within qualitative analysis. NVivo 9 is a further development of Nvivo 7 and 8 and consistent with the Windows standard. NVivo 9 can handle all languages and alphabets supported by Windows. User interfaces in English, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarine. NVivo can import, code, and link Word files, PDFs, audio-, video- and picture files. Several categories of nodes can be created: Hierachical nodes, Relationships, and Matrices. The query methods are clearly explained and how to use the saved results. You can also create Graphical Models, Charts, Tree Maps, Word Trees and other visualizations like Cluster analysis. This book can be used as course literature or for self-teaching. A comprehensive yet clear list of contents, glossary, and index ensures the ease of finding the solution to problems that may occur."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Screen architecture; title: Creating a project; title: Handling text-sources; title: Editing documents in NVivo; title: Handling audio- and video- sources; title: Handling picture-sources; title: Memos, links, and annotations; title: Introducing nodes; title: About classifications; title: Handling bibliographic data; title: About datasets; title: About coding; title: Finding project items; title: About queries; title: About teamwork; title: Common query features; title: Models; title: More on visualizations; title: Reports and extracts; title: Help functions in NVivo; title: Glossary.