Some "Wants" re: NVivo
2016
- A "proof sheet" thumbnail view of all imagery in a project
- A smarter algorithm for sentiment analysis, to include nuances like double-negatives, irony, sarcasm, humor, and other aspects
- in all content languages [English (US and UK), Spanish, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, etc.]
2017
- Built-in cross-tab analyses from matrices for specific "use cases" (*done in NVivo 12 Plus!)
- Additional NCapture capabilities across social media (particularly image- and video-sharing sites)
- A computer vision / image analysis module (possible given computational limits of laptops?)
- Additional complex machine learning from text (*done in NVivo 12 Plus!)
- Network text analysis
- Some built-in tools for the analysis of interview data (*done in NVivo 12 Plus!)
- ... and others
2020
- Some context-sensitive built-in help (along a path, for newbies)
- More readable treemap diagrams with labels pulled out in a legend
- Ability to upload Excel files without any pre-processing (pre-coding)
- More complex social network graphs from social media platforms (and more color in these based on different data)
Discussion of "Some 'Wants' re: NVivo"
An API for NVivo?
By far my biggest gripe with NVivo is its closed-ness. Its file formats are opaque, it provides almost no ability to import or export structured data, and your ability to access your own data depends on your continuing to renew your license. Most significantly, NVivo's lack of an API means that you are locked into its clunky GUI - fine for getting started but totally inadequate for managing large volumes of data.This gap frustrated me so much that I deciphered NVivo's file formats and wrote Python scripts to convert to and from a simple SQLite database. While not quite a full-blown API, this does already allow you to write your own scripts in your favorite scripting language to do such things as import, analyze, report on and archive data. If you are interested, take a look at https://github.com/BarraQDA/nvivotools
Posted on 16 January 2017, 5:11 pm by Jonathan Schultz | Permalink
Thanks!
Hello, Jonathan: Thanks for your comment and your resource.Posted on 17 January 2017, 5:44 am by Shalin Hai-Jew | Permalink
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