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Hi Duncan,
I am using N5 QDA software which has allowed me to export the nodal tree
into Decision Explorer (www.banxia.com) for more rigorous analysis. I
don't know if NVivo has this capability. DE is a graphical visualization
and cognitive mapping program which has 33 or so analysis options
including some basic social network analysis functions like in-degree
(in-ward nodal ties) and out-degree (out-ward nodal ties) and centrality
(prominence of a node within a network of nodes). However, if you wish
to use some more sophisticated SNA functions, you could develop a
spreadsheet of the linkages between your NVivo nodes in UCINET for this.
Hope this is useful, Mark
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University of Toronto,
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Toronto, Ontario
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Subject: Re: Qualitative Software and Social Network Analysis
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Thanks, Robert.
Perhaps I should have been a little clearer in my initial request. I
use
NVivo a lot in my own research (sociology) and manage our site licence
for
it. I've used NUD*IST a little and know about Atlas-TI and CDC's AnSWR.
What I know next to nothing about is Social Network Analysis Software.
I'm
glad that you are so familiar with QDA software. Do you use it to
analyse
social networks and, if so, do you interface it with the graphical
networking capabilities of SNA software?
It may be, of course, that I'm misconstruing what SNA software can or
does
do.
Thanks,
Duncan
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