1. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie NVivo Software John.Walsh@ul.ie

2. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie N6 Software Overview Documents Codes Nodes Searches Modelling

3. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Documents

4. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Document Types Interview Transcripts Unstructured open questions Organisational Documentation Speeches Plays, Novels etc.

5. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Document Types Data Documents Memos –Thoughts, developed over time –About interviewees, surroundings, queries after interview, anomalies/further questions –Get on paper at the time –Node Memos- notes on concepts

6. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Coding

7. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Coding Identification of key Themes/Patterns Attach ‘key words’/tags To segments of text (text units) Make available for inspection Later software helps –Retrieve text units –Order themes –Search for patterns

8. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Coding Text From example interview text What codes Issues Concepts …are covered? From Theory/From Data (In Vivo)

9. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Nodes

10. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Nodes Create Nodes in N6 for each code Code a text unit with (multiple) codes Can retrieve by Code

11. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Naming Nodes Node Names –from Theoretical concepts Structure available from Lit Review Enable ‘mirroring’ –In Vivo From the data Grounded Theory

12. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Types of Nodes Free Nodes –Not organised –Generated initially as free (first pass) –May not fit other categories Tree Nodes –Have a Hierarchy –Categories & sub-categories

13. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Managing Nodes Structuring free Nodes Passes through the data –Spotting something half-way through –Iterative

14. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Searching

15. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Searching involves Helping arrange data to AID answer questions asked when –Exploring –Reflecting on –Probing for patterns Need to know what questions to ask!

16. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Modelling

17. AIB Centre for Information & Knowledge Management www.cikm.ul.ie Modelling Tree/hierarchical structures Graphical representations (Not N6)

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