QDA Miner
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| QDA Miner | |
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| Developer | Provalis Research |
| Initial release | 2004 |
| Stable release | 6
/ September 2020 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual[which?] |
| Type | Qualitative data analysis, qualitative research |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | www |
QDA Miner is mixed methods and qualitative data analysis software developed by Provalis Research. The program was designed to assist researchers in managing, coding and analyzing qualitative data.[1]
QDA Miner was first released in 2004 after being developed by Normand Peladeau. The latest version 6 was released in September, 2020. QDA Miner is widely used for qualitative research. It is used by market researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, crime and fraud detection experts, journalists and others.
The data typically used with this qualitative research software comes from (among others), journal articles, script from TV or radio news, social media (such as Facebook, Twitter or reviews from websites), interviews or focus group transcripts and open-ended questions from surveys.[2]
- QDA Miner 1: January 2004
- QDA Miner 2: June 2006
- QDA Miner 3: October 2007
- QDA Miner 4: December 2011
- QDA Miner 4 Lite: November 2012, a free variant of QDA Miner with reduced functionality [3]
- QDA Miner 5: December 2016
- QDA Miner 6: September 2020
