MAXQDA is a professional software for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method data analysis, suitable for both Windows and Mac operating platforms, and loved by thousands of users worldwide.
Founded in 1989, with years of experience in providing researchers with powerful, innovative, and convenient data analysis tools, it has assisted in the smooth development of research projects. The types of data that MAXQDA can analyze include interview records, reports, forms, online surveys, focus groups, videos, audio, literature, images, and more.
Comprehensive qualitative data analysis for researchers using different datasets. MAXQDA Standard can handle multiple data types and provides powerful tools for advanced encoding, retrieval, transcription, and visualization, while still being easy to learn and use.
Extensive data
Manage your entire research project using MAXQDA Standard. Easily import data from interviews, focus groups, online surveys, web pages, images, audio and video files, spreadsheets, bibliographic data, and even YouTube comments and Twitter tweets.
Organize your materials in groups, cross reference relevant quotes, and share and compare work with other members of the team. Just like your research, your project is always flexible and can expand or improve the code system.
Encoding and Retrieval
By using regular codes, colors, symbols, or emoticons, important information in the data is marked with different codes. Quickly code by dragging and dropping or automatically encoding search terms, and organize your thoughts and theories in memos that can be fixed to any element of the project.
Simply click to quickly and efficiently retrieve code segments, or use powerful search tools to test and develop new theories.
Notes
When you read and encode data, good ideas usually come up. Memos are an ideal place to keep them. Choose from 11 different icons to mark your memo. The unique MAXQDA memo manager and lexical search function ensure access to each memo at any time. Memos are also very suitable for creating audit records or explaining paragraphs in one's own words.
Search in the MAXQDA standard
Conduct a project wide search in documents, memos, or current search results. You can enter single or multiple search strings and use operators to group them together. Through interactive search result display, quickly scroll through each appearance of the phrase and apply the code to all or selected search results. Of course, you can also quickly search in each window of MAXQDA.
Analysis and Transcription Media
You can choose to use MAXQDA to directly encode audio and video files without first creating a transcript. Or transcribe your media to analyze written text while always maintaining a connection to the original media editing. MAXQDA has extended transcription capabilities, allowing you to adjust the speed or volume of audio and video files, and use pedals to accelerate transcription speed.
The processing of media editing is the same as any other segment in MAXQDA. You can encode, retrieve, annotate, and assign weights to these segments in the same way as other segments.
Hybrid Method Expert - Integrated Demography
Deeply integrate quantitative methods or data into your project. Link qualitative data to demographic variables, quantify the results of qualitative analysis, calculate statistical frequency, or compare groups based on quantitative and qualitative findings in the MAXQDA standard.
Visualization and theoretical testing
Automatically or manually generate amazing data visualization effects. View your data from a new perspective to gain new insights or theoretical testing.
By exporting the results as impressive images for reporting and presentation, you can share your results. Alternatively, use the car map drawing tool MAXMaps to create a wide range of maps.
Export, report, archive
MAXQDA will not lock your data. Export a portion of the project, individual documents, search results, or the entire project to an easily readable file format, such as Excel or Word. Or export the complete project to a clear and understandable folder structure.
MAXQDA also follows the REFI-QDA standard, which allows you to export and import data from other QDA software packages.
Using any language in MAXQDA
MAXQDA provides multiple possibilities for using different languages. The user interface can be provided in multiple languages, and your analysis can be conducted in every language in the world. The fact that MAXQDA supports Unicode enables the import and analysis of documents using any script and language.
Learn how to use MAXQDA in your preferred language! Our Getting Started Guide is available in multiple different languages. In addition, our international network of professional trainers provides opportunities to participate in MAXQDA workshops in multiple different languages.
