Qualitative analysis — reading writing
Read interviews, documents and open-ended answers as they are. Skim first, or pick a method and work through it.
My qualitative analyses →Qualitative preprocessing tools open in the existing workflow screens.
Read as qualitative material
The data contains free-form writing. It is handled separately from numeric analysis. Start below.
How do you want to start?
Two ways in: skim first to get a feel, or pick a method and walk the steps.
Taste — AI first pass
Skim what story this material holds, in about three minutes. It draws a map before the real analysis.
Formal — pick a method, step by step
Pick one of six methods and analyze it yourself, step by step. This is the side you can put in a paper.
How will you read it?
Qualitative research reads material in several ways. Pick one and we take you into the matching flow — or choose by purpose in the workflows below.
Which method fits? →Guided flows
- Coding → Theme StructureWhen you code text, group codes into themes, and review quotations per categoryOpen
- Actor Network AnalysisWhen you extract actors and review co-occurrence networks with contextual quotationsOpen
- Text Comprehensive DiagnosisWhen you first scan articles, open responses, or comments for keyword/sentiment/topic outlineOpen
- Coding → Quant (mixed)When you verify coded categories quantitatively and return to source quotationsOpen
- Meta-Axis QualitativeWhen comparing coded categories by meta axes with per-axis source quotationsOpen