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NVivo: Qualitative data analysis software

NVivo is software that supports qualitative and mixed methods research. It lets you collect, organise and analyse content from interviews, focus group discussions, surveys, audio - and now in NVivo 10 - social media and web pages.

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QSR International
10 (June 2012)
Windows
Qualitative data analysis

Overview

Some of the main features in NVivo are highlighted below. In addition, a downloadable NVivo overview (PDF) is also available.

What is NVivo?

NVivo is software that helps you easily organize and analyze unstructured information, so that you can ultimately make better decisions. Whatever your materials, whatever your field, whatever your approach, NVivo provides a workspace to help you at every stage of your project - from organizing your material, through to analysis, and then sharing and reporting.

With NVivo you can deeply analyze your data using powerful search, query and visualization tools. Uncover subtle connections, add your insights and ideas as you work, rigorously justify findings, and effortlessly share your work.

Exploratory data analysis
Regression and analysis of variance
Distribution fitting
Statistical process control
Design of experiments
Six Sigma
Reliability and life data analysis
Time series analysis & forecasting
Multivariate methods
Nonparametric techniques

Who uses NVivo?

From health research and program evaluation, to customer care, human resources and product development - NVivo is used in virtually every field. Yale University, World Vision Australia, the UK Policy Studies Institute and Progressive Sports Technologies all use NVivo to harness information and insight. Get up and running fast with a Getting Started guide.

What does NVivo help you achieve?

For individuals

Use NVivo to:

Spend more time on analysis and discovery, not administrative tasks
Work systematically and ensure you don’t miss anything in your data
Interrogate your information and uncover subtle connections in ways that simply aren’t possible manually
Rigorously justify your findings with evidence
Manage all your material in one project file
Easily work with material in your own language
Effortlessly share your work with others

For organisations

Use NVivo to:

Get the most out of your data – from customer and employee feedback to information about product performance – to make new discoveries and ultimately, better decisions
Easily manage your information and enhance your internal workflow and reporting processes
Deliver quality outputs backed by a transparent discovery and analysis process
Justify decision making with sound findings and evidence-based recommendations
Revisit data easily. Build up the big picture over time
Increase productivity and reduce project timeframes

Discover how NVivo could support you

Your project

Everyone’s project is unique. Your information could come in many formats and languages, and you may be working alone, with a supervisor or as part of a team. Whatever your data, whatever your working arrangement, NVivo lets you work your way.

Your approach

You might use a specific research methodology or process, or you may have your own unique approach. You may want to take a high level view, or explore the subtlest themes in the detail. Regardless of your approach, NVivo has the flexibility to help.

Your workspace

NVivo’s workspace is designed using Microsoft user interface guidelines, so it looks familiar and is easy to use. There’s also a range of resources to get you started and keep you on track. From video tutorials to guides and online help - you’ll be up and running in no time.

Work with your information

NVivo handles virtually any data, including Word documents, PDFs, audio files, database tables, spreadsheets, videos, pictures and web data. And you can interchange information between NVivo and other applications like Microsoft Word and Excel, IBM SPSS Statistics, Survey Monkey, Evernote and EndNote.

Analyzing a survey that has open ended responses? Use NVivo to explore this sort of data. NVivo can easily work alongside statistical packages– so you get a complete view of what the data is telling you.

Make sense of your information

NVivo’s powerful query tools let you uncover subtle trends, and automated analysis features let you sit up above your data and drill down into it. For example, search for an exact word or words that are similar in meaning to quickly test theories or to direct you to the areas that need further analysis. This can be helpful when you’re working with lots of data too.

Prefer pictures to words? With NVivo you can display connections, ideas and findings using visualization tools such as charts, maps and models. What’s more, you can easily view the live data behind them.

Share and present your findings

Want to share your findings with others? Your conclusions, query results, models and charts can all be exported or simply copied and pasted into reports and presentations. NVivo also lets you export your findings as web pages, so you can share files and findings with clients or colleagues who don’t have NVivo.

New features in NVivo 10

Some of the main features available in NVivo 10 are listed below. For more detail, please refer to the downloadable NVivo 10 feature list (PDF).

Your projects in NVivo

Backwards compatible with previous versions of NVivo
Work with data in virtually any language (including Japanese, Mandarin and Unicode)
Merge separate projects
Store project data in a single file or separately
Convert and works with projects developed in other programs (including Atlas.ti, MAXQDA and FrameWork)

Enjoy working with software that’s user friendly

A workspace based on Microsoft user interface guidelines
Use the NVivo ribbon to find and understand commands quickly
Organize and access all of your project items via a central navigation view
‘Wizards’ step you quickly through more complex tasks
Rearrange the user interface to suit you
‘Drag and drop’ makes it easy to move data
Explore your data with confidence knowing you can retrace your steps using multi-level ‘undo’
Import, create and edit a wide range of data including:
- Documents in Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx), Portable Document Format (.pdf), rich text (.rtf) or plain text (.txt) formats
- Audio files in .mp3, .mp4, .m4a, .wma, or .wav formats
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls and .xlsx), Access database tables, ODBC database tables and text delimited files
- Video files and media clips that are in .mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .wmv, .avi, .mov, .mp4, .qt, .3gp, .mts and .m2ts formats
- Web pages and online PDFs as PDF files
- Social media data from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
- Digital photos and pictures that are in .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif or .tiff formats
Check spelling as you edit
Preserve styles used in original documents, including styles created in non-English languages

Organise and classify your data with ease

In NVivo, the containers for storing themes or ideas are called ‘nodes’. Nodes can represent anything – like people, places and organizations, and you can assign demographic data or attributes to them
Create nodes ‘on the fly‘ or ‘up-front‘ and easily manage them
Assign your own colors to nodes, sources, attribute values and users, and see them throughout your project
Group sources that share common characteristics together using ‘Classifications’ to help with organisation and analysis
Easily import demographic information such as gender and age
Create a collection of shortcuts called ‘Sets’ for project items stored elsewhere in your project
Get support for a wide range of research methodologies

Make sense of your information with coding

NVivo lets you gather all your material about a theme, idea or topic together through ‘coding’
Code your material using a range of techniques including ‘dragging and dropping’ with your mouse, paragraph coding or ‘In Vivo’ coding
Use the Quick Coding bar to create new nodes quickly, and to code at nodes that you’ve used most recently
Use coding stripes to display coding or demographic information in documents, pictures, video or audio files visually
Use the ‘coding density bar’ to see how much coding has been performed for a specific source
See what content has been coded at particular nodes, or coded by one or more users, with ‘highlight coding’
Auto code structured information in documents and datasets

Capture your thinking: memos and comments

Create memos to capture your observations and link them to materials
Create annotations to comment on selected content

Link ideas, themes and information

Apply ‘see also’ links to note a comparison or to lay a trail of evidence
Use ‘memo links’ to capture important related observations or insights
Use hyperlinks to link selected references to files or other information outside your NVivo project

Work with documents, audio, video and images

Select and work directly with text, images and tables within PDFs and Word documents
Easily access any hyperlinked content
Code image regions within a PDF
Review and analyse audio and video in NVivo
Work directly with media files, even if you don’t have a transcript
Create a transcript for an entire audio or video file, for a section of a file, or just create keywords in NVivo
Import and link an existing transcript to its corresponding audio or video file
Play an audio or video file and watch your transcript scroll in synchronization
Click on a line in your transcript to bring up the section of video or audio it relates to
Code content in a transcript and shadow coding stripes show you where the coding occurs in the media
Work with geospatial data like aerial photos and maps from ‘Google Earth’
Create your own ‘log’ or description of an entire picture, or for a specific section of a picture, in NVivo

Work with spreadsheets and database tables

Select how you view and work with your spreadsheets and database tables
Speed up your analysis – particularly when you’re working with large datasets – by automatically coding your data
Automatically gather each respondent‘s answers into a single node
Automatically group responses based on demographic data

Work with literature reviews and bibliographies

Import bibliographical data from reference management software like EndNote, Zotero or RefWorks
Directly import and work with information like a journal article’s title, author and your own notes
Optionally install NCapture. Use NCapture to collect web pages or social media data and then import this content into NVivo
Import Facebook wall posts and comments from people, organizations or groups
Import Tweets from Twitter
Import LinkedIn group discussions
NVivo provides automatic coding features to quickly group social media data
NVivo provides automatic visualizations for Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn datasets to help you see patterns in your data

Import notes from Evernote

If you use Evernote to take notes, collect images or clip web pages - you can now import your notes into your project and work with them in NVivo

Use smart search and find tools

Use ‘advanced find’ to locate project items based on their properties or other criteria, including multiple criteria values
Save the criteria you used to ‘find’ an item into a ‘search folder’

Interrogate data with query tools

Explore your data, test theories and make discoveries using ‘queries’. Re-run them through new data and track the evolution of results
Use a ‘text search’ query to find an exact word match or words that are similar in meaning
Use a ‘word frequency’ query to see a list of the words that appear most often within your materials
Use coding queries to explore and ask questions about your coding
Matrix coding queries allow you to compare coded material across nodes, sets or attribute values
Use compound queries to search based on multiple criteria
Use a group query to show particular types of associations between project items

Visualise patterns and connections in your data

Create models to display new ideas, connections and findings
lick on the project item in a model to see the underlying data in your NVivo project
Use graphs to see all the project items associated to a theme, idea, person or any other item
Use tag clouds, tree maps and word trees to see the most frequently appearing words in selected materials (sources) or nodes
Create and explore ‘charts’
Use cluster analysis to visualise the similarities and differences in your sources or nodes
Explore two-way connections between items and display them visually with ‘connection maps’

Interchange and share your data

Use predefined reports or create your own using the wizard
Modify your reports and extracts by adding or removing fields or changing the order of your data
Produce a wide range of inbuilt reports such as a project summary, source summary, node summary, or coding reports
Choose exactly which data to extract and use with the ‘extracts’ feature
Import and export delimited text files, spreadsheets, and database tables to and from applications like Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, IBM SPSS Statistics and SAS/STAT
Import and export data to and from reference management software like EndNote, Zotero or RefWorks
Share project files and findings as HTML web pages
Export charts, models and visualizations as images
Export the data into Excel for further analysis
Export diagrams such as charts, in PDF format

Enjoy enhanced performance and scalability

The way NVivo stores and accesses data has been optimized, so NVivo performs tasks even faster
NVivo 10 performs better when working with large amounts of data
The maximum project size for standalone projects has been increased to 10 GB (previously 4GB)

Work effectively in teams

View the specific coding, annotations and links completed by each team member
See which team member originally created a project item and who last modified it
See content that one team member has coded to a node or broaden the view to see several team members
Use coding stripes to view and compare all the coding completed by different users
Run ‘queries’ on the work completed by team members

Introducing NVivo 10 video

NVivo 10 eDemo

Timberlake and QSR International recently recorded an NVivo 10 Demonstation, which is now available to users. Click here to find out more and view the video »

System requirements

1.2 GHz Pentium III-compatible processor (32-bit) or 1.4 GHz Pentium 4-compatible processor (64-bit) (Recommended: 2.0 GHz Pentium 4-compatible processor or faster)
1 GB RAM or more (Recommended: 2 GB RAM or more)
1024 x 768 screen resolution
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later (Recommended: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, or Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or later, or Microsoft Windows 7)
Approximately 2 GB of available hard-disk space (additional hard-disk space may be required for NVivo projects) (Recommended: Approximately 2 GB of available hard-disk space)
Internet Explorer 7 or later (required for NCapture)
Internet connection recommended