Queries help you to explore your data and investigate hunches as you progress through your project. You can:
- Find and analyze the words or phrases in your files and nodes.
- Ask questions and find patterns based on your coding and check for coding consistency among team members.
Query |
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Examples |
Text Search
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Find all occurrences of a word, phrase, or concept.
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- Find the words policy or legislation and code them at the new node government.
- Find content where the terms rising sea level and property occur within 20 words of each other.
- Find all references to river, and find similar words such as stream, Nile, watercourse.
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Word Frequency
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Find the most frequently occurring words or concepts.
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- Look for the most frequently occurring words in a set of interviews.
- Find the most frequently occurring themes in a document—where similar words are grouped into concepts.
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Coding
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Find all content coded at selected nodes, a combination of nodes, or a combination of nodes and attributes.
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- What do property developers say about rising sea levels?—run a query to gather content that has been coded at rising sea levels and at cases with the attribute property developer.
- Show me where content coded at coral bleaching is near content coded at rising sea temperatures.
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Matrix Coding
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Find the coding intersections or co-occurrence of themes in your project and display this in a matrix.
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- Compare the positive and negative attitudes of interview participants to a range of local council services.
- Explore how tourism is related to a range of themes including water quality, real estate development and environmental change.
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Crosstab
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Check how coding is distributed across the cases, or different types of cases in your project.
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- Check how often interview respondents refer to a particular topic or issue.
- Check how many interview respondents (with particular attributes) refer to a topic or theme.
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Compound
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Use a compound query to
- Combine a text search query with a coding query
- Search for two words that occur in the same paragraph (or other specified context).
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- Find content where the term rising sea temperature precedes content coded at coral.
- Find content where the words habitat and sustainable occur in the same paragraph.
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Coding comparison
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Compare coding done by two users or two groups of users.
This query measures the 'inter-rater reliability' or the degree of agreement for coding done by selected users.
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Compare coding between users in different locations or from different disciplines who are coding the same data in order to check the consistency of their coding.
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Group
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Find items that are associated in a particular way with other items. The items could be associated by coding, attribute value, relationships, 'see also' links or maps.
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- Find the nodes that I've used to code Interview with Franz and Interview with Vikram.
- Which interviews have been coded at wind power and solar power?
- Which files or cases have a certain set of attribute values—for example, who are the survey participants from Riverside and Mountain View?
- List any 'relationship' nodes that include water purification.
- Find any maps that include homeowners or farmers.
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source: https://help-nv.qsrinternational.com/12/win/v12.1.110-d3ea61/Content/queries/queries.htm