BIG QUALIDATA: Analysis of Large Volumes of Qualitative Data

The following videos were recorded as part of the National Centre for Research Methods workshop, ‘BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Research’. The workshop was held at the University of Edinburgh on 9th May 2016. The workshop was held as part of ‘Working Across Qualitative Longitudinal Studies’, a three year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The study is part of a programme of research by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) which aims to advance methods for the analysis of complex data with linked and time-dependent structures, and understand the pedagogy of methodological learning. Can social researchers scale up techniques of working with qualitative data and meaningfully analyse massively more text than they can possibly read? The workshop sought to explore this question with three researchers using different types of software: R, Leximancer and NVivo. Want to know more? More materials, including links to the presenters’ slides and publications, can be downloaded from our project website: http://bigqlr.ncrm.ac.uk/