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analysis of video & audio data ~ Transana open source software

data analysis, technology

Thanks to Sylvia, a student in my research class, for pointing out this software.

Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.

Works on WIndows or OS X and developed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Data Analysis Software

data analysis

If you gave a 30 item survey to 1000 people would you analyze the results by hand or in your head? Probably not. The amount of data from an interpretive study will be just as voluminous and using computer assisted data analysis can make the analysis more systematic and frankly easier. There are a number of programs available, most are sold by Scolari and which one you use is at least partly a matter of personal choice.

In addition, the system you work on will matter. I am a Mac user and use HyperResearch. Other popular software packages, especially for those still stuck in the Windows world are atlas.ti and NVivo.

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