We thank Susanne Friese of Scientific Software and QUARC for contributing to these companion website pages.
Pros: The Atlas.ti is a computer tool that is used for the analysis of large amounts of textual or qualitative data, which as researchers seek to associate pattern codes or codes - labels that contain fragments of images, drawings, texts, videos, sounds and other types of videos in digital formats, which from the purely statistical or formal point of view is very difficult to analyze. ATLAS.ti is a leading software for Qualitative Data Analysis for those who want to see the big picture and appreciate details. It reveals meanings and relationships allowing users to ground their findings in the data. ATLAS.ti allows users to gain rich insights with the most intuitive and powerful QDA software. It is completely re-designed in nearly every aspect, ATLAS.ti 8 Windows is poised.
ATLAS.ti provides a flexible range of different ways to handle the analysis of qualitative data - good coding tools and other ways to connect ‘quotations’, memoing, data organisation, in-context retrieval, interrogation and mapping functions are applicable to multiple media of data. Get started
Getting started in ATLAS.ti.
As you will see in the subsequent pages – there are various types of data which can be imported and some of them are auto-processed as they are imported.
ATLAS.ti memo before you create codes in ATLAS.ti, then this is a suitable way to proceed as well. If you already have some ideas for codes while reading, then go straight ahead and start coding in ATLAS.ti. Do whatever feels most natural to you. Pros: The Atlas.ti is a computer tool that is used for the analysis of large amounts of textual or qualitative data, which as researchers seek to associate pattern codes or codes - labels that contain fragments of images, drawings, texts, videos, sounds and other types of videos in digital formats, which from the purely statistical or formal point of view is very difficult to analyze. You already have an ATLAS.ti license but need to accommodate more users? Use this form, and we will be happy to assist you in selecting the right license for you and provide you with a quote. IMPORTANT: ‣ To order a student license, go to studentlicenses.atlasti.com ‣ For general issues or questions, write to general@support.atlasti.com.
- You can create an empty project and later import multiple media data types
- You can import a spreadsheet of mixed quantitative and qualitative data and the software auto-processes the information on import.
These pages are followed by other tasks of data import, data preparation, organisation, coding and analysis.
As with other ATLAS.ti step by step options written by Susanne Friese she has oriented exercises around the case study B data (Financial Downturn). She provides a selection of ideas for analytic actions using focus group data and survey data from a spread sheet. Note that once you are working in a software ‘project’ there is no clear linearity or set sequence in the way things have to be achieved and consequently chapter references do not always appear in numerical order. See downloadable working projects and data
In Chapter 5 to help get you started, we talk about productive things you can do in the early stages of setting up a ‘project’ in software. Experimenting with these processes where relevant in your chosen software will help to become familiar with useful entities in the software.We keep the subject matter of other chapters in mind as the step by step tasks in these pages get deeper into the interpretive and interrogation processes of analysing different media. Varied approaches to qualitative data analysis inform how we discuss the functions of software. Get Started!
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ATLAS.ti is qualitative data analysis (QDA) software that allows users to locate, code, and annotate findings in text-based and multimedia data and visualize the complex relationships between these data.
The Windows and Mac OS X versions of this software are available for download at software.usc.edu/atlas-ti. For information on installing and using ATLAS.ti, see the links below.
Installation and User Guides
Windows
Mac OS X
Online Help and Tutorials
ATLAS.ti provides a series of video tutorials on using the program in both English and Spanish at atlasti.com/video-tutorials
A series of free, real-time webinars are also available at http://atlasti.com/learning/free-training.
A knowledge base that answers some frequently asked questions about ATLAS.ti is available at atlasti.com/support/faq-overview.
Additional Installation Help
Atlas Ti Student Version
If you need additional assistance downloading and installing ATLAS.ti on your computer, please contact the ITS Customer Support Center