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]
Release history
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]
Word frequency analysis and interactive word cloud
Importation of Nexis UNI and Factiva Files
Improved Importation of Excel, CSV and TSV files
Deviation Table
Export Results to Tableau Software
Numerical Transformation
Binning
Support of Missing Values
Silhouette plot
Date transformation
Improved code filtering feature
Donut, Radar, 100% Stacked Bar and Area Charts
Ordering of series in comparison charts
Color Coding of items in Correspondence Plot
Improved Bubble Chart
Link Analysis Buffer
New Table Format and Table Editor
Several new options and interface improvements have been made to existing dialog boxes (code color selection, graphic options, etc.), management and analysis features.