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 […]
Tamara Pataki from Verbi Software spoke about discourse analysis with MAXQDA. They are also completing a Ph.D. at the central European University. Pataki started by stating that discourse analysis with MAXQDA helps analysis but is not a method. Tamaki shared that Bennet 2015 explained that constructivist ontology and epistemology can be aligned with the use […]
Christina Silver is the Director of the QDAS program and has a lot of experience with thematic analysis. Their session at MAXDAYS 2025 was titled “Thematic Analysis using MAXQDA.” They have a podcast and blog on thematic analysis. Silver started by explaining that thematic analysis encapsulates a range of approaches. They noted that it was […]
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 […]
Stefan Radiker presented at MAXDAYS 2025 on “Grounded Theory with MAXQDA.” Radiker said that it all started in 1967 with the publication by Barney Glasser and Anselm Strauss on “The Discovery of Grounded Theory.’ Radiker explained the core principles of Grounded Theory studies: Radiker recommends creating a single MAXQDA project from the beginning of the […]
Tonight I watched a session on mixed methods for survey data analysis from the MAXDAYS 2025 recordings. Amelie Damarcher was the presenter. They discussed how surveys can have open ended and closed questions. Closed questions have limited options. Open ended questions are those that don’t have simple yes/no responses. The combination of both types of […]