QualCoder Reviews

1. Leon van der Neut

   almost 2 years ago
   Effective no non-sense software

   I used Qualcoder to code 100 hours of public hearings transcripts and I found it a very pleasant experience. The workflow is intuitive and quick. Even though some transcripts went over 150.000 characters, I was using about 50 codes, and have transcripts with over 100 different coded segments, the program remained stable. Using the | character in the search field allows for the use of multiple keywords at once, which was very effective. The report function allows you to produce overviews of interview segments per code and various kinds of statistical analysis, which can be integrated with R-Studio. Many thanks to Dr. Colin Curtain for the development and software support.

   👍 Pros:    Active community|Completely free and open source|Very stable|Intuitive workflow|Integration with r-studio

   👎 Cons:    .pdf coding requires turning pages in file
2. Rahul A

   almost 4 years ago
   The best open source alternative to paid CAQDAS

   QualCoder is one of the best CAQDAS I have used not just because it is free and open source but also because of the functionalities and constant improvements.

   🏁 Competitors: ATLAS.ti, NVivo

   👍 Pros:    Developer is responsive to feedback/requests and makes improvements|Easy to use|Advanced features
3. Guest

   about 4 years ago
   Really good alternative to paid CAQDAS

   I really like using QualCoder 3.0 for its ease of use and intuitive interface.

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Intuitive|Easy merge of projects

   👎 Cons:    Only two hierarchies allowed for codes

JASP Reviews

1. Bob Muenchen

   · Retired statistician at University of Tennessee · about 2 years ago
   Good choice for teaching stats

   JASP works very similarly to jamovi. That's not a coincidence, as some JASP developers split off to create jamovi. You can open a single dataset and use the most popular statistics and machine learning methods. But if you have multiple datasets to merge, you must do that in another tool. Also, the dataset must maintain a single structure throughout your analyses. Restructuring or transposing is not allowed. It is commonly said that data scientists spend 80% of their time wrangling data like that, so that's a significant limitation for general use. However, those simplifications make JASP a good choice for teaching. Another advantage for teaching is that the menus are very sparse, but you can add to them easily by downloading additional modules. That's the opposite of similar software such as BlueSky Statistics, SPSS, or Minitab, which install all features at once. If you're looking for free and open-source software, JASP and jamovi are best for teaching while BlueSky Statistics is best for general-purpose analysis.

   🏁 Competitors: BlueSky Statistics

   👍 Pros:    Easy user interface

   👎 Cons:    Limited features

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• Bayesian Epistemology

  For anyone looking for a quick and hands-on dive into the world of Bayesian modelling and inference, I can't recommend JASP enough, made freely available by the University of Amsterdam[0]. I've recommended it before, and it's just a breeze to work with, seeing frequentist and Bayesian analyses side-by-side. [0]: https://jasp-stats.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Introduction to Modern Statistics

  Anyone looking to apply and compare frequentist and bayesian methods within a unified GUI (which is essentially an elegant wrapper to R and selected/custom statistical packages), should check out JASP developed by the University of Amsterdam [0]. It's free to use, and the graphs + captions generated on each step are of publication quality out of the box. Using it truly feels like a 'fresh way' to do... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Can anyone share spss for macOS?

  Https://jasp-stats.org fully free. Its advisible to learn python, R or matlab for graduate school. Source: about 3 years ago

• Help with my analysis in spss. I have 5 independent (ordinal) variables. 1 Moderator and 1 dependent variable. How do I run a multiple regression in SPSS?

  Also for alternative software that are much easier to use take a look at JASP or jamovi (both are very similar); and as a bonus, neither of these two will require you to manually add product variables to your dataset. Source: about 3 years ago

• [D] Discussion: R, Python, or Excel best way to go?

  If you have no access to SPSS (or SAS, or JMP), then look into JASP (https://jasp-stats.org/). I've only just touched that. One thing I believe is that JASP (as well as JMP) will allow/block off tests and analyses depending on the nature of each column. This means that, for example, if you have groups A, ..., Z, the software will treat those as non-numbers, which can only be used as inputs for variables which... Source: over 3 years ago