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ti Mac
INTRODUCTION

Ricardo B. Contreras, PhD

Applied cultural anthropologist training@atlasti.com
Director training, sales and general inquiries:
Training & Partnership Development +1 (866) 880-0231 (US and Canada)
Corvallis, Oregon, USA +1 (541) 286-4391 (International)

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 COURSE PROGRAM

1. Outline
Conceptual introduction
Hands-on work

2. Conceptual introduction
What does ATLAS.ti do?
Qualitative research
Qualitative data analysis
Data-level work in ATLAS.ti
The objects of an analysis project
Analysis tools

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 WHAT DOES ATLAS.TI DO?

What does ATLAS.ti do?

Software that facilitates the qualitative analysis of research data.

Software that helps making the analysis process:
Organized
Transparent
Integrated
Grounded in the evidence
Software that facilitates the triangulation of research data collected through
multiple methods of data collection, such as:
Semi-structured/unstructured interviews
Focus groups
Field notes/observations
Archival research/literature reviews
Photo-voice/photo elicitation methods
Ethnographic videos

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 BACKGROUND

ATLAS.ti was released commercially in 1993.

The Mac version was released in September 2014.

Free iPad and Android applications.

The headquarters are in Berlin, Germany.

Office for the Americas is located in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

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 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
CHARACTERISTICS

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CHARACTERISTICS

Natural setting
Researcher as key instrument of data collection
Multiple methods
Complex reasoning through deductive and inductive
Focus on participants meanings
Emergent design
Reflexivity
Holistic account

Creswell 2013:45-47

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 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS:
ANALYTIC STRATEGIES

ANALYTIC STRATEGIES

Sketching ideas Data analysis in qualitative research consists of

preparing and organizing the data (i.e., text data
Taking notes
as in transcripts, or image data as in
Working with words photographs) for analysis, then reducing the
data into themes through a process of coding
Identifying codes and condensing the codes, and finally
Reducing codes to themes representing the data in figures, tables, or in
discussion.
Counting frequency of codes
Relating categories Creswell 2013:180
Relating categories to analytic framework in literature
Creating a point of view
Displaying the data

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 DATA LEVEL WORK WITH
ATLAS.ti: A CONVERSATION WITH
THE DATA

Quotations Memos
Comments

Segmenting
the data Writing

Diagrammin
g Coding

Networks Codes

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 THE OBJECTS OF AN ANALYSIS
PROJECT IN ATLAS.TI

THE OBJECTS
Docume
nts

ects exist in relation to

Quotatio
h other Groups ns

ects must be integrated

e analysis process

d a compartamentalized
roach Networks Codes

Memos

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 OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
DOCUMENTS

DOCUMENTS

Sources of
information

Different formats:
Text
Graphic
Audio
Video

No size limitation

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 OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
QUOTATIONS

QUOTATIONS

t of the document

ons can be of any size

ons are independent

they may or may not
d to codes

ons can be hyperlinked

nd across documents

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 OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
CODES

CODES
Word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient,
essence-capturing, and/or evocative attribute for a portion of language-
based or visual data (*).

Codes are normally linked to quotations

(but they do not have to be).

Coding can be done manually or automatically.

Codes can be grouped with each other and can be

Represented semantically in network views.

Saldaa, J. 2009:3.
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CONTRERAS
 OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
MEMOS

MEMOS

searcher journal entries or blogs-a place to dump your brain

s under investigation by thinking and thus writing and

* Saldaa 2009:32.

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 OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
NETWORKS

NETWORK VIEWS

representations of

s of networks:
med linkages
d linkages (semantic)

tion of how pieces

ng together

maps, cognitive maps,

nomies

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 OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
GROUPS

GROUPS

documents, codes and

ccording to shared
nd characteristics

w for interrogation
s and conceptual

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 ANALYSIS TOOLS

ALYSIS TOOLS
Word
Cruncher

titative
Code-
ord Cruncher Query tool document
de-Document table table
-occurrence table

tative
de co-occurrence
plorer Co-
Smart
mart codes occurrence
codes
table
ery tool
Co-
occurrence
explorer

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 ANALYSIS TOOLS:
WORD CRUNCHER

WORD CRUNCHER

equency count

an be excluded from count

an be done with selected

ords

can be done with subset of

ents

n be exported into Excel

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 ANALYSIS TOOLS:
THE CODEDOCUMENT TABLE

THE CODE-DOCUMENT TABLE

uency table

quotations by codes
uments

words in quotations
cross documents

be exported into Excel

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 ANALYSIS TOOLS:
THE CO-OCCURRENCE TABLE

THE CO-OCCURRENCE TABLE

r of times two codes
ur with each other

or of the intensity of the

urrence between two codes
fficient)

he table, it is possible
e the quotations in which
des co-occur

an be exported into

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 ANALYSIS TOOLS:
SMART CODES

SMART CODES

nation of codes using

n, Semantic and Proximity
ors

working hypotheses
can be tested
hout the analysis
s

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 ANALYSIS TOOLS:
THE QUERY TOOL

THE QUERY TOOL

data in the form of

s by codes across documents

Semantic and Proximity

query rules

Excel

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 OUTPUTS

OUTPUTS
Excel for documents,
codes, memos, groups and links

e outputs in Excel

PDF for documents and network

aste network views into

sor

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 EXPORT PROJECT

EXPORT PROJECT

be imported into other software

e format

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 LICENSES AND LEARNING

Licencing
Free trial: perpetual but small project
Licences: single-user, multi-user, campus.
Student licenses: 6 months and 2 years.

Learning
On-demand free group webinars
Online introductory and advanced workshops
Face-to-face workshops
Video tutorials
Manuals
User forum

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Contreras
 REFERENCES CITED

Creswell, J. W. (2013). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design:

Choosing Among Five Approaches. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE
Publications, Inc.

Densin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (2011). Introduction: The

Discipline and Practice of qualitative research. The Sage
Handbook of Qualitative Research (4 th ed., pp. 1-19). Thousand
Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Saldaa, J. (2009). The Coding Manual for Qualitative

Researchers. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc.

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