ATLAS ti Mac INTRODUCTION Ricardo B Contreras Ph

ATLAS. ti Mac INTRODUCTION Ricardo B. Contreras, Ph. D Applied cultural anthropologist Director Training & Partnership Development Corvallis, Oregon, USA © 2015 ATLAS. ti training@atlasti. com training, sales and general inquiries: +1 (866) 880 -0231 (US and Canada) +1 (541) 286 -4391 (International) www. atlasti. com

COURSE PROGRAM 1. Outline • • 3. Hands-on work • • • Conceptual introduction Hands-on work 2. Conceptual introduction • • • What does ATLAS. ti do? Qualitative research Qualitative data analysis Data-level work in ATLAS. ti The objects of an analysis project Analysis tools © 2015 ATLAS. ti 2 Creating the project Setting up a project Data segmentation and coding Memo writing Analysis and outputs Conclusion www. atlasti. com

WHAT DOES ATLAS. TI DO? What does ATLAS. ti do? Software that facilitates the qualitative analysis of research data. Software that helps making the analysis process: • Organized • Transparent • Integrated • Grounded in the evidence Software that facilitates the triangulation of research data collected through multiple methods of data collection, such as: • Semi-structured/unstructured interviews • Focus groups • Field notes/observations • Archival research/literature reviews • Photo-voice/photo elicitation methods • Ethnographic videos © 2015 ATLAS. ti 3 www. atlasti. com

BACKGROUND • ATLAS. ti was released commercially in 1993. • The Mac version was released in September 2014. • Free i. Pad and Android applications. • The headquarters are in Berlin, Germany. • Office for the Americas is located in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO 4 www. atlasti. com

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CHARACTERISTICS • Natural setting • Researcher as key instrument of data collection • Multiple methods • Complex reasoning through deductive and inductive • Focus on participants’ meanings • Emergent design • Reflexivity • Holistic account Creswell 2013: 45 -47 © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 5 www. atlasti. com

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS: ANALYTIC STRATEGIES • Sketching ideas • Taking notes • Working with words • Identifying codes • Displaying the data Data analysis in qualitative research consists of preparing and organizing the data (i. e. , text data as in transcripts, or image data as in photographs) for analysis, then reducing the data into themes through a process of coding and condensing the codes, and finally representing the data in figures, tables, or in discussion. • Reducing codes to themes • Counting frequency of codes Cre swell 2013: 180 • Relating categories to analytic framework in literature • Creating a point of view © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 6 www. atlasti. com

DATA LEVEL WORK WITH ATLAS. ti: A CONVERSATION WITH THE DATA • Quotations •

THE OBJECTS OF AN ANALYSIS PROJECT IN ATLAS. TI THE OBJECTS Objects exist in relation to each other Documents Groups Quotations Networks Codes Objects must be integrated in the analysis process Avoid a compartamentalized approach Memos © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 8 www. atlasti. com

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT: DOCUMENTS Sources of information Different formats: Text Graphic Audio Video No size limitation © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 9 www. atlasti. com

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT: QUOTATIONS Segment of the document Quotations can be of any size Quotations are independent objects: they may or may not be linked to codes Quotations can be hyperlinked within and across documents © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 10 www. atlasti. com

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT: CODES Word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient, essencecapturing, and/or evocative attribute for a portion of language-based or visual data (*). Codes are normally linked to quotations (but they do not have to be). Coding can be done manually or automatically. Codes can be grouped with each other and can be Represented semantically in network views. * Saldaña, J. 2009: 3. © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI 7 WINDOWS| RICARDO CONTRERAS 11 www. atlasti. com

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT: MEMOS Analytic memos are somehow comparable to researcher journal entries or blogs-a place to “dump yo about the participants, phenomenon, or process under investigation by thinking and thus writing and thus thinking even more about them. (*). Spaces for integration. Memos can be linked to quotations, codes and other memos. * Saldaña 2009: 32. © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 12 www. atlasti. com

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT: NETWORKS NETWORK VIEWS Graphical representations of linkages Two types of networks: Unnamed linkages Named linkages (semantic) Visualization of how pieces are coming together Concepts maps, cognitive maps, folk taxonomies © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 13 www. atlasti. com

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT: GROUPS Grouping of documents, codes and memos Grouping according to shared attributes and characteristics Groups allow for interrogation across cases and conceptual domains © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 14 www. atlasti. com

ANALYSIS TOOLS Word Cruncher Quantitative Word Cruncher Code-Document table Co-occurrence table Qualitative Code co-occurrence explorer Smart codes Query tool Codedocument table Smart codes Cooccurrence table Cooccurrence explorer © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 15 www. atlasti. com

ANALYSIS TOOLS: WORD CRUNCHER Word frequency count Words can be excluded from count Count can be done with selected set of words Counts can be done with subset of Documents Table can be exported into Excel © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 16 www. atlasti. com

ANALYSIS TOOLS: THE CODE–DOCUMENT TABLE THE CODE-DOCUMENT TABLE Code frequency table Number of quotations by codes across documents Number of words in quotations by codes across documents Table can be exported into Excel © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 17 www. atlasti. com

ANALYSIS TOOLS: THE CO-OCCURRENCE TABLE Number of times two codes co-occur with each other Indicator of the intensity of the co-occurrence between two codes (c-coefficient) From the table, it is possible examine the quotations in which Two codes co-occur Table can be exported into Excel © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 18 www. atlasti. com

ANALYSIS TOOLS: SMART CODES Combination of codes using Boolean, Semantic and Proximity Operators Store working hypotheses which can be tested throughout the analysis process © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 19 www. atlasti. com

ANALYSIS TOOLS: THE QUERY TOOL Retrieves data in the form of quotations by codes across documents Boolean, Semantic and Proximity operators Variety of query rules Output in Excel © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 20 www. atlasti. com

OUTPUTS Outputs in Excel for documents, quotations, codes, memos, groups and links Quantitative outputs in Excel Outputs in PDF for documents and network views Copy and paste network views into word processor © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 21 www. atlasti. com

EXPORT PROJECT XML- Can be imported into other software ATLAS. ti file format ©

LICENSES AND LEARNING Licencing • Free trial: perpetual but small project • Licences: single-user, multi-user, campus. • Student licenses: 6 months and 2 years. Learning • • • On-demand free group webinars Online introductory and advanced workshops Face-to-face workshops Video tutorials Manuals User forum © 2015 ATLAS. ti 23 Introduction to ATLAS. ti 7 Windows| Ricardo www. atlasti. com

REFERENCES CITED Creswell, J. W. (2013). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Densin, N. K. , & Lincoln, Y. S. (2011). Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of qualitative research. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (4 th ed. , pp. 1 -19). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Saldaña, J. (2009). The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc. © 2015 ATLAS. ti INTRODUCTION TO ATLAS. TI MAC| RICARDO CONTRERAS 24 www. atlasti. com

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