Daniel Turner - Quirkos Qualitative Research Blog

Quirkos 3 is released: our best offline qualitative analysis software

Today we are launching the newest, updated offline tool for our simple qualitative analysis software: Quirkos 3! Quirkos 3 brings the updated visual interface and new features from Quirkos Web in your browser, and brings it to a fully offline desktop app you can install on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Quirkos Web: December 2024 Updates

Just in time for new year, we've updated Quirkos Web with some big new features and updates. And the first one is a real blast from the past! Yes, as you can see in the image above, the Add Quirk (+) button in the top right of the screen

Quirkos is 10!

I'm not sure how it's snuck up on us, but Quirkos is 10 years old today! It was on October 8th, 2014 that we released the first public version of Quirkos, at a party at a pub in Leith, I pressed the 'upload' button,

Co-producing analysis: exploring together

This guest blog-post ties in with the International Creative Research Methods Conference 2024, by Dr Jess Mannion: a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Social Care and Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She specialises in co-produced research with people with learning disabilities on sexual citizenship using visual and

Quirkos Web - July 2024 Updates!

We've just made a buck of improvements to Quirkos Web - our simple qualitative software tool that works directly in your browser. The biggest new feature is the Merge functionality, allowing you to easily merge one or more projects together. This helps working with team-members who are offline,

NOT Coding Qualitative Data, and Delayed Categorisation

When you finally get qualitative data in your hands, after planning, ethics approval, sampling and recruitment, collecting your data and getting it transcribed, it’s an exciting, and long-awaited moment. It's almost impossible to resist the temptation to jump straight into coding and exploring this intriguing and rich

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Outsourcing decision making: AI, ethics, and qualitative research

In my own testing with ChatGPT (3.5 Turbo) it almost seems to deliberately ignore some things. A interview where a person clearly discussed a research project in Africa, ChatGPT refused to see the context

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Comparing the best automated transcription services for qualitative research

In the last couple of years, several qualitative analysis software providers have added extra add-ons for automatic transcription of qualitative data. But are they worth the extra money, and how do they compare with more mainstream options? And what about free alternatives?

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Quirkos Web: More updates! (Nov 2023)

It's only been two months since our last major updates to Quirkos Web launched, but we've got more improvements, available now!

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More improvements to Quirkos Web (September 2023)

We've been working hard behind the scenes on some new improvements to Quirkos Web - our simple qualitative analysis software that works directly in your browser

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Transcribe everything! Formal and informal data collection in qualitative research

this post focuses on ways that the speed and volume of our transcription service can change how you design research, and think about data.

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Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation

Automated transcription systems can be negatively affected by systematic cultural prejudice... it's important to understand that, just like us, these machine learning systems have learnt from our dominant global culture and society

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Announcing Quirkos Transcribe

One of the most requested features from our users has been an automated transcription service. A way that researchers can still be in the cafe, energised from an interview, and turn that precious recording straight into text they can revisit, explore, start to analyse and use for writing up.

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What's the difference between codes and themes in qualitative analysis?

You'll see lots of literature on qualitative analysis talk about using both codes and themes, but they are difficult concepts to explain and often the lines between them are blurred.

Creating 'Google Docs' for qualitative analysis

Qualitative analysis software should be just like using Google Docs. That means it should be easy to create a document or project. It should just work in your browser without needing to install anything. That you should be able to access your work anywhere. That it should have all the same features

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Welcome to Quirkos Web!

Today we are excited to finally unleash the new version of Quirkos - Quirkos Web! It's all the features and ease of use of regular Quirkos, but running in your browser! It's a option available to any Quirkos Cloud users at no additional cost.

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Examples of qualitative research data

Qualitative data can be in many more formats, so it's useful to see some examples of what qualitative data can look like, and to use for practice while you learn analysis and before you collect your own data

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Updates on Quirkos Web

Last year we announced and teased Quirkos The Next Generation - all new Quirkos designed afresh for your browser, with all the projects, data, features and functionality on any device, and it's coming soon!

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Constant comparative method in qualitative analysis

The constant comparison method isn't restricted to Grounded Theory, and is a frequently applied approach to analysing and exploring qualitative data. It's essentially a really common-sense approach for examining qualitative data...

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Collaboration, team-work and qualitative project sharing

Quirkos Cloud is one of the few qualitative data analysis software packages to allow live, unlimited collaboration and project sharing. It's not an extra add-on, it's available to all users without any additional costs. There are no limits...

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Qualitative Content Analysis

Sometimes content analysis is applied as a blanket term for looking to see what qualitative data is about (ie the content) and from there many approaches can be applied.

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Announcing Quirkos for the Web!

We’ve teased a little about it already, but we are now announcing more details on the next version of Quirkos, a version of our qualitative analysis software that will work entirely in your internet browser.

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Managing qualitative coding systems

In this blog post, I'm going to try and persuade you to do something really boring. Develop a formal process to record your analysis journey, and the coding systems you have.

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Codebooks for qualitative research

A codebook doesn’t include the extracts of data themselves, but a detailed description of the codes, how they should be used, their relationship to each other, what should be included and excluded in each code.

Welcome our new Qualitative Research Specialist!

Today we are excited to announce that the amazing Cathy Gibbons (Arc52.com / formerly University of Nottingham) will be joining us and developing exciting new training, guidance and community support