1/16/2014
SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, Zoomerang, SurveyGizmo, QuestionPro, or any other form of data collection or organization that can get your data to a spreadsheet and you are ready to import your data for analysis in Dedoose. We’ve been listening to the many happy users who’ve taken advantage of this Dedoose feature or any of the other migration tools we’ve created for Atlas.ti, NVivo, HyperResearch, MaxQDA or other tools and our importers are more robust than ever.
As, many Dedoose users have already learned, making use of the Dedoose survey importer is a huge time saver when you have data or can export/convert data to an Excel spreadsheet. So if you are using tools for your qualitative research data or a study that involves mixed method research where you can get to a spreadsheet, you can move from this…
..to this…
…with just a few clicks of your mouse.
Awesome! Yes! The Dedoose survey importer:
All automatically and, thus, in just seconds, you are ready to start taking advantage of all Dedoose analytic features.
But now there is more!
In its first life, the Dedoose Survey Importer was great for single imports. Yet, users don’t always collect all their data at once and importing additional sets of data into existing project required some clean up.
Not any more!
The Dedoose Survey Importer graduated to a higher class of smartness. As long as your first column of data is a unique values—like in our sample ‘ID’ field we just numbered the cases from ‘1’ to ‘196,’ Dedoose can be much more clever. The importer is now smart enough to:
So much more efficient and this re-programming has also opened a door for the development of another awesome new Dedoose feature. Hush hush, but stay tuned for that one coming soon to Dedoose near you!