A tool for qualitative data analysis designed to support computational thinking

Abstract

qc is a free, open-source command-line-based tool for qualitative data analysis designed to support computational thinking.In addition to making the qualitative data analysis process more robust and efficient, computational thinking can contribute to the richness of subjective interpretation.The typical workflow in qualitative research is an iterative cycle of "notice things," "think about things," and "collect things" (Seidel, 1998, p. 2).qc provides computational affordances for each of these practices, including the ability to integrate manual coding with automated coding, a tree-based hierarchy of codes stored in a YAML file, allowing versioning of thematic analysis, and a powerful query interface for viewing code statistics and snippets of coded documents.

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