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Atlas.ti

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Stable release
  
8.0 / 2016-12-06

Website
  
www.atlasti.com

License
  
Proprietary software

Developer(s)
  
ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH

Operating system
  
Windows; Mac OS; iOS; Android

Type
  
Qualitative data analysis

ATLAS.ti is a computer program used mostly, but not exclusively, in qualitative research or qualitative data analysis.

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Description and usage

The purpose of ATLAS.ti is to help researchers uncover and systematically analyze complex phenomena hidden in unstructured data (text, multimedia, geospatial). The program provides tools that let the user locate, code, and annotate findings in primary data material, to weigh and evaluate their importance, and to visualize the often complex relations between them.

ATLAS.ti is used by researchers and practitioners in a wide variety of fields including anthropology, arts, architecture, communication, criminology, economics, educational sciences, engineering, ethnological studies, management studies, market research, quality management, psychology and sociology.

ATLAS.ti consolidates large volumes of documents and keeps track of all notes, annotations, codes and memos in all fields that require close study and analysis of primary material consisting of text, images, audio, video, and geo data.

In addition, it provides analytical and visualization tools designed to open new interpretative views on the material.

To support multi-method multi-user projects across space and time (longitudinal studies), project data export using XML is available. With XML, the proprietary nature of most software systems can be mitigated. This is indeed a mandatory requirement in scientific settings. ATLAS.ti's XML schema (http://downloads.atlasti.com/atlasti_hu_2.2.xsd) influenced the development of the QuDEX language (http://dext.data-archive.ac.uk/schema/schema.asp) at University of Essex.

Features overview

  • Coding of text, image, geo, audio and video materials (interactive and automated))
  • Full native PDF Support (original layout) without conversion
  • Geodata Integration
  • Text-to-media Synchronization
  • On-Board Transcription Engine
  • Shared editable documents including dynamic update of all projects
  • Interactive margin area with drag & drop linking, coding, merging
  • Full margin support for audio and video data
  • Multi-document view for constant comparisons
  • On-screen coding (drag & drop)
  • Search & retrieve functions (incl. Boolean, semantic, and proximity-based operators)
  • Visual model building and "mind mapping" using the Network Editor
  • Integrated visualizations: frequency bars in entity managers
  • Cloud tag view for codes
  • Creation and navigation of hyperlinks between resources (Hypertext)
  • Searching for textual patterns through documents and model entities (Object Crawler)
  • Automatic coding (search - select - code)
  • Proximity analysis of coded data (Cooccurrency Explorer and Table)
  • Project data export to XML
  • Export to SPSS, HTML, CSV
  • Creation of presentations (XML/XSLT converter including stylesheets)
  • Word frequency export to Excel
  • Unicode language support
  • Single file project backup and migration.
  • Survey import
  • Twitter import
  • 100 step undo/redo

    • Development history

    A prototype of ATLAS.ti was developed by Thomas Muhr at Technical University in Berlin in the context of project ATLAS (1989–1992). A first commercial version of ATLAS.ti was released in 1993 to the market by company "Scientific Software Development," later ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH. The methodological roots of ATLAS.ti lie in - but are not restricted to grounded theory, content analysis and knowledge elicitation.

    References

    Atlas.ti Wikipedia
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