When these data are created within or imported to Dedoose and linked to associated qualitative resources, the Dedoose analytic features come alive and allow for a wide range of tabling, charting, mapping, sorting, and filtering based on any of these ‘objects’ in the database. These data can be demographics, survey response, test scores, or any other information that is useful in distinguishing one case in a study from another. ‘Everything else’ we know is referred to as ‘descriptor’ data in Dedoose.

One of the most seamless and powerful aspects of Dedoose is capitalized upon by the linking of qualitative resources (and all the subsequent excerpting and tagging/coding of this content) with everything else known about the source of these data. Timing, when to put organisational structures in place

Illustrating the potential for interrogation See all coloured illustrations (from the book) of software tasks and functions, numbered in chapter order. This chapter takes the subject further and focuses on the need to assign multiple variables, descriptors or attributes to each respondent or case, so that comparing within or across cases can happen via combinations of data and subset characteristics if required. Chapter 6 discussed basic structures like folders which enable simple tidying up and filtering. In the Assign to Classification drop down menu, select your classification (e.g., People).Chapter 12 discusses the variety of ways organisation of data can happen and the importance of particular organizing tools to enable different levels and complexity of interrogation. In the Select Location dialog box, set the location to store your case nodes (e.g., the Cases folder) (If you create case nodes from the ribbon (Create > Case) or by right clicking into List View, you will need to create each case individually and manually code the file to the case). Creating cases from the files in this way codes the file to the case.

Right Click, then select Create as, Create as Cases. Select all the data files that represent your study participants. In this step, the classification is linked to the case of each participant so that all attributes in the classification are available for the participant.Ĭlassifications must be linked to the case node that represents the participant, not to the data file (e.g. Step 3: Create cases for each participant, code each participant’s data to the case, link the cases to the classification

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