Description: A given result is significant if it is equal to or greater than the value found at the appropriate degrees of freedom and number of groups.

Description: At Dedoose, we take the business of developing code systems very seriously, and we aren’t the only ones. A quick Google search for ‘coding qualitative data’ yielded about 1.1M hits and ‘qualitative code system development’ landed me about 12M hits.

Description: Transcribing is THE WORST... just the worst. If we had a nickel for every time someone at a conference talked to us about the perils of audio and video transcription…well, we would be very rich.

Description: This article is for all you data dumpers out there. You know who you are. You get all the materials for your qualitative data analysis together and you upload EVERYTHING into Dedoose…all at once.

Description: The cloud… When we talk about the cloud, or cloud computing, we are not talking about the weather. While your text analysis in Dedoose is stored in the cloud, we promise it won’t get wet if it rains.

Description: Given an r and degrees of freedom, one is able to determine if r is significant at a given level.

Description: Teamwork. It often brings to mind motivational posters hanging in old high school locker rooms…

Description: The fundamental purpose of qualitative research is to better understand why a particular group of people behaves or believes as it does

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Description: Reliability is the “consistency” or “repeatability” of your measures (William M.K. Trochim, Reliability) and, from a methodological perspective, is central to demonstrating that you’ve employed a rigorous approach to your project.