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QUALITATIVE DATA
ANALYSIS WITH ATLAS.ti 7

WINDOWS
Ricardo B. Contreras, PhD

Applied cultural anthropologist
Director
Training & Partnership Development training@atlasti.com
Corvallis, OR training, sales and general inquiries:
USA +1 (866) 880-0231 (toll-free US and Canada)
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COURSE PROGRAM
1. Outline
• Conceptual introduction 3. Hands-on work
• Hands-on work • Creating the project
• Setting up a project
2. Conceptual introduction • Data segmentation and coding
• What does ATLAS.ti do? • Memo writing
• How does ATLAS.ti do it? • Analysis and outputs
• Qualitative research • Conclusion
• Qualitative data analysis
• Data-level work in ATLAS.ti
• The objects of an analysis project
• Analysis tools

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

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
CHARACTERISTICS
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

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS:
ANALYTIC STRATEGIES
ANALYTIC STRATEGIES
• Sketching ideas Data analysis in qualitative research consists of

preparing and organizing the data (i.e., text data as in
• Taking notes
transcripts, or image data as in photographs) for
• Working with words analysis, then reducing the data into themes through a
process of coding and condensing the codes, and finally
• Identifying codes representing the data in figures, tables, or in discussion.
• Reducing codes to themes
• Counting frequency of codes Creswell 2013:180
• Relating categories
• Relating categories to analytic framework
in literature
• Creating a point of view
• Displaying the data

DATA LEVEL WORK WITH ATLAS.ti:
A CONVERSATION WITH THE DATA
• Quotations • Memos
• Comments
Segmenting
Writing
the data
Diagramming Coding
• Networks • Codes

THE OBJECTS OF AN ANALYSIS
PROJECT
Primary
THE OBJECTS Documents
They exist in relation to Families Quotations

each other
Object must be integrated

in the analysis project
Avoid a compartamentalized
approach Networks Codes
Memos

OBJECTS OF THE PROJECT:
THE PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary
Documents
Sources of
information
Different formats:
Text
Graphic
Audio
Video
Google Earth
No size limitation

QUOTATIONS
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

CODES
CODES
Word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient, essence-

capturing, 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.
MEMOS
MEMOS
Analytic memos are somehow comparable to researcher journal entries or blogs-a place to
“dump your brain” about the participants, phenomenon, or process under investigation
by thinking and thus writing and thus thinking even more about them. (*).
Spaces for integration.
Spaces for reflection.
Spaces for making sense.
Memos can be linked to quotations, codes

and other memos.
* Saldaña 2009:32.

NETWORKS
NETWORKS
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

Introduction to ATLAS.ti 7
FAMILIES
FAMILIES
Grouping of documents, codes and

memos
Grouping according to shared

attributes and characteristics
Families allow for interrogation

across cases and conceptual
domains

ANALYSIS TOOLS
Word Cruncher
ANALYSIS TOOLS
Code co-
Quantitative Code-PD table occurrence
explorer
Word Cruncher
Co-occurrence table
Code-PD table
Qualitative
Code co-occurrence
explorer
Co-occurrence
Query Tool Super codes
table
Super codes
Query Tool

ANALYSIS TOOLS: WORD
CRUNCHER
WORD CRUNCHER
Word frequency count
Spreadsheet and cloud
Words can be excluded from count
Count can be done with selected set of words
Count can be done with subset of documents

ANALYSIS TOOLS:
THE CO-OCCURRENCE EXPLORER
THE CO-OCCURRENCE
EXPLORER
Qualitative exploration of code
co-occurrences
Co-occurrences: two codes code the same quotation

or quotations that touch each other (e.g, one
within the other or one overlapping the other)
Co-occurrences are spatial associations

between codes
Co-occurrences tell about the context

ANALYSIS TOOLS:
THE CO-OCCURRENCE TOOL
THE CO-OCCURRENCE TABLE
The table shows number of times

two codes co-occur with each other
The table shows an 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
The table can be exported into Excel

ANALYSIS TOOLS:
THE QUERY TOOL
THE QUERY TOOL
It retrieves data in the form of quotations

by codes or combination of codes, across
documents or combination of documents
Codes are combined with codes through

Boolean, Semantic and Proximity operators
Documents are combined with documents

Through Boolean operators
Output in Rich Text Format (RTF)

ANALYSIS TOOLS:
SUPER CODES
SUPER CODES
Super codes store queries created

using the Query Tool
Super codes can be useful to test

working hypotheses
Super codes automatically change

their behaviors during the course
of theory building

ANALYSIS TOOLS:
CODE-PRIMARY DOCUMENT
TABLE
CODE-PRIMARY DOCUMENT
TABLE
Code frequency counts
Number of quotations by code or

code family across documents or document
families
Number of words that make up

the quotations linked to a code, or code
Family, across documents or document
Families
Output in Excel

TEAMWORK
TEAMWORK
Unlimited number of coders
Collaboration in server
Collaboration across computers
Unique user IDs for each coder
Merging projects two by two
Project resulting from merging contains

work from all coders

EXPORTING THE PROJECT
EXPORTING THE PROJECT
XML
HTML
SPSS
EXCEL/CSV
RTF
GRAPHIC FILE FORMATS
PDF

BACKING-UP THE PROJECT:
THE COPY BUNDLE
BACKING-UP THE PROJECT:

THE COPY BUNDLE
Create a copy bundle at the end
of each work session
Copy bundle stores the project

documents and all of the work done up
to that moment
Store copy bundle in external drive

(Dropbox is okay)
Project/Save Copy Bundle

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 24 7 Windows| Ricardo Contreras

Introduction to ATLAS.ti 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 (4th ed., pp. 1-19). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications,
Inc.
Saldaña, J. (2009). The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Los

Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Silver, C., & Lewins, A. (2014). Using Software in Qualitative Research:

A Step-by-Step Guide (2nd ed.). London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

THANK YOU!
ATLAS.ti
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QUALITATIVE DATA

ANALYSIS WITH ATLAS.ti 7

Ricardo B. Contreras, PhD

© 2015 ATLAS.ti 1 www.atlasti.com

© 2015 ATLAS.ti 2 www.atlasti.com

What does ATLAS.ti do?

Software that facilitates the qualitative analysis of research data.

© 2015 ATLAS.ti 3 www.atlasti.com

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CHARACTERISTICS

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• Sketching ideas Data analysis in qualitative research consists of

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They exist in relation to Families Quotations

Object must be integrated

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Segment of the document

Quotations can be of any size

Quotations are independent

Quotations can be hyperlinked

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Word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient, essence-

Codes are normally linked to quotations

Coding can be done manually or automatically.

Codes can be grouped with each other and can be

Spaces for integration.

Spaces for reflection.

Spaces for making sense.

Memos can be linked to quotations, codes

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Two types of networks:

Visualization of how pieces

Concepts maps, cognitive maps,

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Grouping of documents, codes and

Grouping according to shared

Families allow for interrogation

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Word frequency count

Spreadsheet and cloud

Words can be excluded from count

Count can be done with selected set of words

Count can be done with subset of documents

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Co-occurrences: two codes code the same quotation

Co-occurrences are spatial associations

Co-occurrences tell about the context

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THE CO-OCCURRENCE TABLE

The table shows number of times

The table shows an indicator of the

From the table, it is possible

The table can be exported into Excel

© 2015 ATLAS.ti 17 www.atlasti.com

THE QUERY TOOL

It retrieves data in the form of quotations

Codes are combined with codes through

Documents are combined with documents

Output in Rich Text Format (RTF)

© 2015 ATLAS.ti 18 www.atlasti.com

Super codes store queries created