Tonight I watched the MAXDAYS session “Collaborating in MAXQDA: Best Practices for Teams.” Joel Drevlow from iQDAS Consulting. Drevlow noted that this session was based on a chapter they wrote in a publication by MAXQDA Press. Drevlow did a lot of program evaluation and survey analysis. Analyzing collaboratively, Drevlow explained, has several advantages: multiplicity of […]
Michael C. Gizzi from Illinois State University and a Certified MAXQDA Trainer spoke at MAXDAYS 2025 about working with summaries. I just watched earlier today a session with Gizzi about the use of AI Assist for literature reviews with MAXQDA. Gizzi said that there are four ways to summarize data: paraphrasing, code comments, summary tables […]
Andreas W. Muller presented a session about AI Assist. The title was “MAXQDA’s AI Assist: Support your Coding with AI Assist.” AI assist is an add-on to MAXQDA 24. It uses large language models to create summaries of documents, coded segments, and more. AI Assist can also generate new subcodes and explanations. AI Assist suggests […]
Julia Gerson from VERBI Software, presented at MAXDAYS 2025. Their session focused on visualizing data with MAXQDA 2024. Gerson has been working with VERBI Software, the maker of MAXQDA for fifteen years. For coded data, you can visualize patterns, similarity, or differences in data. For uncoded data, you can visualize word frequencies or, for focus […]
Continuing with the MAXDAYS 2025 sessions, tonight I watched Dr. Kimberly King-Jupiter from Alabama State University and Anita Jarman, a graduate student at Morgan State University, present. Their session had the title “Making Sense of Copious Amounts of Information in a Digital Age.” King-Jupiter spoke about the power of the tool and what can be […]
The keynote for MAXDAYS 2025 day 2 was by John W. Creswell. The title of the session was “Update: Trends in Mixed Methods Research, 2025.” Creswell has written numerous books on mixed methods research. Creswell lives in Japan eight months a year! They have been doing mixed methods research for four decades. In 2023, they […]
Stefan Radiker presented on “Mixed Methods: Integrating QUAL and QUAN with MAXQDA” as part of MAXDAYS 2025. Radiker spoke about how MAXQDA supports data import, exploration, analysis, and reporting of qualitative data. For quantitative data, frequency tables, crosstabs/correlation, charts, descriptive statistics, inference statistics, and other quantitative analysis features ara available. Radiker presented data from a […]
Caterina Fugazzola presented at MAXQDAYS 2025 on “Analyzing Social Media.” Fugazzola has been doing this session at MAXDAYS for years, apparently. Fugazzola is an ethnographer by training and at the University of Chicago. Some challenges of social media analysis noted are the speed and amount of data. Fugazzola warned that there is no single recipe […]
Tonight I watched another MAXDAYS 2025 session. This one focused on Exploring Instagram with text and image analysis. Justyna Okrucinska has many roles: they are a Ph.D. student, work with MAXQDA, and train others. For this study, Okrucinska used the tool Web Collector and installed in MAXQDA. This allows you to download text and images […]
Andreas W. Muller presented at MAXDAYS 2025 on “Mastering Multimedia Analysis.” Muller has been doing training for MAXQDA for several years. Muller started speaking about four types of data: text, video, audio, and images. Selection fields are rectangular for videos and images. Selection fields for video and audio is based on timeframes. Coding image data […]