Useful MAXQDA functions

Smart Coding Tool

The Smart Coding Tool is designed for working with coded text segments and is very well suited to performing the following tasks:

Getting an overview of the contents coded with a code,
Reviewing and, if necessary, changing relevant codes,
Customizing your code system, particularly differentiating (i.e. breaking down) parent codes or merging codes.

Using the Smart Coding Tool

QTT Worksheets

The "Questions – Themes – Theories" (QTT) workspace bridges your MAXQDA project and research report.

QTT helps you focus on your research questions. QTT can be compared to a scrapbook in which you collect everything related to a particular topic or research question, record questions, focus on themes and key categories, and formulate answers to the research questions.

Using QTT Worksheets

MAXDictio

MAXDictio offers three essential functions:

Using the word frequency function, you can perform vocabulary analysis, for example, to explore which vocabulary is present, which words occur in a text or text segment, and the differences between the vocabularies of two different texts within a project.
Using the tools for text exploration function, you can examine the occurrence of words and combinations of words in their respective contexts.
Using the dictionary, quantitative content analyses can be carried out, in which the search terms from a dictionary are counted and the results are graphically displayed.

Using MAXDictio

Show Variables

Switch to the Variables tab and open the List of Document Variables. Check the “Favorite variable” column for all variables that are interesting for your analysis, and close the window again. If it was not enabled, click the Display Favorite Variables icon at the top of the “Retrieved Segments” window.

Looking at where codes overlap

Complex Coding Query

By default, the “Retrieved Segments” window shows all coded segments with the activated codes in the activated documents. If several codes are activated, they are OR-linked, i.e., it does not matter with which activated code a segment was coded to be listed.

Using the Complex Coding Query instead, you can search for coded segments while logically combining several codes. For example, you can output only segments where several activated codes overlap or where another code has been assigned nearby.

Complex Coding Query

Code Relations Browser

The Code Relations Browser (CRB) visualizes the relationships between codes and displays the frequency of their co-occurrence within a document. This graphical representation makes it easier to see which codes are associated with each other at a glance.

Code Relations Browser (Code Co-occurrences)