WordCommentsAnalyzer: A windows software tool for qualitative research

WordCommentsAnalyzer : A windows software tool for qualitative research

Abdekhodaie, Ehsan (author): Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Hatami, Javad (author): Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Bahrami-Ehsan, Hadi (author): Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Kormi-Nouri, Reza, 1954- (author): Örebro universitet,Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete,Center for Health and Medical Psychology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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Abstract Subject headings

There is a lack of free software that provides a professional and smooth experience in text editing and markup for qualitative data analysis. Word processing software like Microsoft Word provides a good editing experience, allowing the researcher to effortlessly add comments to text portions. However, organizing the keywords and categories in the comments can become a more difficult task when the amount of data increases. We present WordCommentsAnalyzer, a software tool that is written in C# using .NET Framework and OpenXml, which helps a qualitative researcher to organize codes when using Microsoft Word as the primary text markup software. WordCommentsAnalyzer provides an effective user interface to count codes, to organize codes in a code hierarchy, and to see various data extracts belonging to each code. It also offers basic visualization tools. We illustrate how to use this software by conducting a preliminary content analysis on Tweets with the #successfulaging hashtag. We also demonstrate that the software has satisfactory performance on a large dataset of Iranian journals abstracts. We hope this open-source software will facilitate qualitative data analysis by researchers who are interested in using Word for this purpose.

By the author/editor: Abdekhodaie, Ehs ...; Hatami, Javad; Bahrami-Ehsan, H ...; Kormi-Nouri, Rez ...

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