Reviews of Qualitative Software
During the fall semester of 1999 I taught research methods in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. This lively and highly interdisciplinary center includes a large number of graduate students deeply engaged with applied social science research projects all around the globe. As part of their class work, each student chose a qualitative data analysis program which they thought would be useful in their own research; they wrote and presented their software review to the class as a whole. Choosing appropriate software for qualitative research is not an easy task – there are more and more programs to choose from, and the packages themselves are growing in size, complexity, and cost. Therefore I thought these reviews might help other students and professionals make informed decisions for their own research. Several students preferred to remain anonymous. Webmaster and ringleader: Professor Richard Wilk
PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------- Author
Ethnograph 5.0 -- Scolari	Emily Yeh
Methodologist’s Toolchest V. 2.0 -- Idea Works, Inc.	Jamie Fine
Decision Explorer, Version 3.0	Anon.
QSR NUD*IST -- Scolari	Anon.
QSR NUD*IST Vivo -- Scolari	Anon.
WinMax -- Scolari	Reuben Deumling
Citation 7.0	Pamela Franklin
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