5.16.2007

New QDA Miner beta

Normand Peladeau at Provalis Research has just released a beta version of QDA Miner 3.0.

New features include:
  • Support for image coding (bmp, wmf, jpg, gif, png)
  • Query by example (e.g., "find things like this")
  • Automatic document classification (i.e., machine learning)
  • Greater integration with WordStat
  • ... and much, much more.
Mike and I are both long-time Provalis users, but we are still discovering features of this powerful software suite (QDA Miner, Wordstat, Simstat).

For my money, it's the best thing out there if you study text (qualitatively, quantitatively, or both).

2 comments:

Steffen said...

Ken,
I deeply enjoy reading your blog and the hints to new approaches, analyses, and tools. My question: Are you familiar with Automap from the CASOS/CMU community? It´s free, and I think it covers most of the questions related to content analysis. I don´t know QDA Miner yet, and I wonder if it be worth changing my routines...:)
Best wishes,
Steffen
www.titudo.net

Ken said...

Thanks for the reminder, Steffen.

I don't know why, but I've never been able to get Automap to work more than once per install. Which is unfortunate, as I think network modeling of common text features has a lot of potential as a method.