Data and Digital Humanities Software

iASSIST webinar highlights key features and approaches for using Atlas.ti and NVivo to analyze qualitative data, including live demos of these two proprietary software tools and interspersed commentary on their respective pros/con.

Originally developed by Günter Huber at the University of Tübingen for analysis of textual, audio, video, and image data. The webpage includes a manual as well as examples of how to use it for video, audio and graphic analysis.

A relatively easy data analysis software that is open access. Can be used for qualitative or quantitative analysis. Data wrangling, cleaning, and transforming is also possible using Python libraries.

Free, open source option for textual analysis of qualitative data from interview transcripts, observation notes, memos, and more.

Like QDA Miner, but looking for a free software option? This is free version of QDA Miner developed by Provalis Research. It has limited functionality, but you could still perform the basic functions. Check out this comparison chart to see how they differ.

Developed by Colin Curtain of Australia as a fallout of his PhD work using RQDA. If you like RQDA, this may boost your research to include audio and video. Accepts Word documents, pdfs, images, and video, Takes a bit of work to get started, but easy to use once learned.

RQDA is an R package for qualitative data analysis that works on Windows, Linux/FreeBSD and Mac OSX platforms for plain text formatted data.

Includes features for text analysis and users can tag words, sentences, paragraphs with the codes you create.

TAMS stands for Text Analysis Markup System. It is used to identify themes in texts (web pages, interviews, field notes). It was designed for use in ethnographic and discourse research. **Note: Software only available for MAC.

A qualitative research tool that can be used for coding and analyzing transcripts & field notes, building literature reviews, creating network diagrams, and data visualizations. Can also be used for quantitative and mixed methods research.

Designed for mixed methods projects with fewer but more complex codes (allows ratings), this full-featured online software is a good choice for distributed groups with somewhat complex projects, or those that would benefit from monthly pricing.

Works with a range of data formats from text, Excel, PDFs, SPSS files, images and more. Offers transcription, annotation/memo management, visualization and reporting support. Provides free courses, tutorials and training on the software. William & Mary faculty, staff and students can download this by visiting software.wm.edu.

A qualitative research tool that helps researchers collect, organize, and analyze qualitative and mixed methods research. Can be used to analyze unstructured text, audio, video, and image data. **Note: Mac version offers fewer features and different file type.

A simple qualitative analysis software, designed to immerse you in your qualitative text data and help you to understand it quickly and easily, Offers student licenses $21 for 3 months with cloud storage. Best for shorter documents.