Nvivo review
You can also look at the intersection of two nodes in the same way. This of course takes a fair amount of organisation, but it helps me to easily find intersections of different categories. I can double click on this and view the three times I have coded this and it looks like: This is useful to me if I want to write about literature on volunteer tourists discuss their host communities. If we look at the yellow box, we can see I have coded ‘Images of Africa’ three times in a reference that has the attribute ‘volunteer tourist’. The intersections of these show the number of times these have been coded together. The row across the top shows the ‘attributes’. In the left column you can see some nodes I chose to display for this example. The most important reason for doing this is it allows me to do a ‘Matrix Coding Inquiry’ which I will now show you an example of output: These will import from Endnote (some of them). This is called a ‘file classification’ in the Nvivo 12 for Windows.Īs you can see, my source classification has a title: ‘Reference’ and different attributes listed below. To do this I use the ‘source’ classification available in Nvivo. I think this is the most efficient method.Īssigning classifications to the referencesĪs mentioned above, I originally wanted quick access to both sorting and finding quotes. My technique is to enter an article into EndNote, then manually import it into Nvivo.
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This will allow me to keep these nodes seperate from my data collection later.Īt first, I was unsure of how to keep this current.
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I code all of my articles using nodes kept in my ‘literature review’ folder. If you already have a significant EndNote library you can import this, which is what I originally did. This is a quick shot of what it looks like. In Nvivo 12 (Windows) I think the ‘internals’ folder is simply called ‘Files’. I name each one with the authors name and year.
Throughout the post below I have tried to provide the alternate names for the Nvivo 12 (Windows).įirstly, I import my articles under the ‘internals’ sources and into a folder called ‘articles’.
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Although they have similar features, I know the Windows version might look different and has extra features. The next section will require some knowledge of Nvivo and will contain screenshots of Nvivo 11 for Mac. I know this could probably be done in excel, but I couldn’t quickly access my quotes while searching for the above criteria (well, at least with my limited knowledge of excel). I also wanted a way of looking at how the methods intersected, along with the theoretical frameworks. My research focuses on tourism and I wanted a method for sorting my articles (quickly) into: tourist, organisations, volunteers, and host communities. Nvivo allows me to categorise quotes under multiple ‘nodes’.
I personally didn’t like this method, as I felt I couldn’t search and categorise things the way I wanted. The next reason I decided to use Nvivo was I had no method for organising my quotes that I liked, beyond a spreadsheet and a word document. This actually had the unintended result of allowing myself to confidently say ‘Yes! I can do that!’ when offered Research Assistant work that would involve using Nvivo. I decided this would be a fantastic, low pressure, method for familarising myself with the program. At the time, I had no experience with Nvivo, I thought how am I going to get practise with no data? Some how along the way, I discovered that some people use it for their literature review. I was reading about data analysis for my confirmation document and every book suggested familiarising yourself with the program you would use. Secondly, I wish I had started this sooner! Firstly, Nvivo doesn’t take out all of the leg work of doing a literature review, for me it is an organisational tool. Recently, I decided to use Nvivo for my literature review.