Atlas.ti
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| ATLAS.ti | |
| Developer: | ATLAS.ti GmbH |
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| Latest release: | 5.2.4 / 2006 |
| OS: | Windows |
| Use: | Text, audio, video analysis |
| License: | proprietary |
| Website: | www.atlasti.com |
ATLAS.ti, the Knowledge Workbench, is a computer software used mostly, but not exclusively, in qualitative research or Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA).
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[edit] Description
Its purpose is to help researchers uncover and systematically analyze complex phenomena hidden in text and multimedia data. The program provides tools that let the user locate, code, and annotate findings in primary data material, to weigh and evaluate their importance, and to visualize complex relations between them.
ATLAS.ti consolidates large volumes of documents and keeps track of all notes, annotations, codes and memos in all fields that require close study and analysis of primary material consisting of text, images, audio, or video data. In addition, it provides analytical and visualization tools designed to open new interpretative views on the material.
First published in 1993, ATLAS.ti has pioneered numerous features that have either become de-facto standard of QDA software or continue to serve as benchmark for all software of its specific genre.
[edit] Features overview (selection)
- Coding of text, image, audio and video materials (interactive and automated)
- Rich Text and Rich Media support with embedded active objects (MS Excel, images, etc, incl. East Asian and Middle Eastern language)
- Interactive margin area with drag & drop linking, coding, merging
- Search & retrieve functions (incl. Boolean, semantic, and proximity-based operators)
- Visual model building and "mind mapping" (Network Editor)
- Creation and navigation of hyperlinks between resources (Hypertext)
- Searching for textual patterns (Object Crawler )
- Semi-automatic coding with multi-string text search and professional pattern matching ("GREP")
- Proximity analysis of coded data (Cooccurrency Explorer)
- Project data export to SPSS, HTML, XML, CSV
- Creation of presentations (XML/XSLT converter)
[edit] Usage
ATLAS.ti is used predominantly by researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, but also by professionals in a wide variety of other fields ranging from criminology to medicine, market research, and the media. ATLAS.ti is not a transcription tool in itself, but is frequently used to analyze and evaluate transcribed materials.
