What is RQDA?
RQDA is a qualitative data analysis software that provides users with a systematic process for coding, organizing, categorizing, annotating, and analyzing non-numerical data such as textual documents, interview transcripts, field notes, open-ended survey responses, images, audio, and video files. This tool facilitates qualitative researchers to import data from various formats and manage/edit/combine multiple projects.
Some of the key features of RQDA include:
- Intuitive graphical user interface and easy-to-use features for qualitative coding and retrieval of coded segments using categories, themes or custom tags.
- Flexible organization and management of codes, memos and categories in tree structures or free nodes.
- Support for analyzing textual documents, audio/video files, images or any other file formats.
- Multiple coding options - open, axial, or selective coding for grounded analysis.
- Visualization tools like code matrix browsers, code frequencies, and code sequence maps to uncover connections in data.
- Search and retrieval functions to find relevant coded segments and documents.
- Import/export coded data.
- Cross platform - works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux systems.
- Free and open source software released under GNU General Public License.
Ideal for individual researchers and teams involved in qualitative studies, RQDA makes it simpler to conduct analysis systematically. It supports a collaborative approach to assessing and interpreting qualitative data.
NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, AQUAD, Julius, Transana, Dedoose, consider.ly, Taguette, The Ethnograph, QualCoder, CATMA, Quirkos, Dovetail, Provalis Research, HyperResearch, f4analyse, Keeword bee, Annotations for Mac are some alternatives to RQDA.