Atlas.ti - qualitative analysis tool

GGD IJsselland

Atlas.ti is a qualitative data analysis tool. It helps researchers systematically analyse large amounts of unstructured data. It allows text analysis, automatic coding, clustering, sentiment analysis.

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• Publication category: Other algorithms
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• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Health and Healthcare

Begin date

2022-01

Contact information

[e-mail]

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Support qualitative data analysis by identifying patterns and themes. Atlas.ti can use text recognition algorithms to suggest codes based on keywords or patterns. For some projects, you can apply sentiment analysis (positive, negative, neutral) to text data. This is done via Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Considerations

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Human intervention

Supporting the researcher. There are no implications for the interviewee.

Risk management

First, automatic coding or sentiment analysis takes place. Then the researcher randomly checks whether the codes and sentiments applied are correct. In the research report, they describe the research approach.

Legal basis

Public Health Act

Links to legal bases

Public Health Act: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0024705

Operations

Data

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External provider

Atlas.ti GmbH