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ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. It offers a variety of tools for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to "soft" data--i.e., material which cannot be analyzed by formal, statistical approaches in meaningful ways. ATLAS.ti provides unique support for all areas of document- based analytical research and works with text, audio, and video material.

In the course of qualitative analysis, ATLAS.ti helps you to explore the complex phenomena hidden in your textual and multimedia data. For coping with the inherent complexity of the tasks and the data, ATLAS.ti offers a powerful, intuitive environment that keeps you focused on the analyzed materials. It offers sophisticated tools to manage, extract, compare, explore, and reassemble meaningful segments of large amounts of data in flexible and creative, yet systematic ways.

ATLAS.ti features

These features make ATLAS.ti the most powerful and sophisticated qualitative analysis tool available anywhere today and rightfully earn it the title The Knowledge Workbench:

* Interactive and automatic coding of rich text, image, audio and video materials
* “Rich” Text support with embedded active objects (Excel™, images, etc)
* Use Word™ documents via “on-the-fly” RTF conversion.
* “Live” editable documents with dynamic multi-project update.
* Fully interactive margin area with drag & drop linking, coding, merging.
* Intuitive: easy on-screen coding (drag & drop)
* All units annotatable: data segments, codes, memos, etc.
* Virtually unlimited number of documents, segments, codes and memos
* The ObjectExplorer: a hierarchical view on your data.
* Analyze proximity of coded data with the Cooccurrency Explorer.
* Visual model building and "Mind mapping" with the graphical Network Editor.
* Theory building & reuse: Create & transfer knowledge networks between projects
* Network Editor now features auto-color node visualization
* Automatic, user-controllable network layout including a toplogical sort feature for project management tasks.
* Super codes capture hypothesis
* Hypertext: Create and navigate hyperlinks to analyze threads of conversation.
* Powerful search & retrieve functions with Boolean, semantic, and proximity-based operators.
* The Object Crawler searches for textual patterns in the project
* Semi-automatic coding with multi-string text search and pattern matching ("GREP")
* Export project data to SPSS™, HTML, XML, CSV
* Quantitative data options: SPSS™, word frequency, and coding table export to Excel™
* East Asian and Middle East language support
* Smart Super Families for powerful filters.
* Create impressive presentations using the XML/XSLT converter. Many useful stylesheets already included!
* Single compressed file project backup and migration.
* Table based bulk assignment of primary documents plus attributes (“families”)
* QUESSY.ti: include database content (Oracle™, MySQL, etc.) in your analysis (standard and multi user license only)
* Join the active ATLAS.ti Forum - you're welcome!
* Extensive Teamwork support (project merge, packaging and migration, entity authorship, shared documents)
* 400+ page manual in Adobe™ Acrobat PDF format provided on CD. Reader included.

Hermeneutic Unit - the heart of ATLAS.ti

The Hermeneutic Unit Editor is your main workspace in ATLAS.ti. All basic project components (primary documents, quotations, codes, memos) are presented by default as drop-down lists. Floating windows displaying these lists may be activated at any time. Coding can be done by simply dragging codes from the code manager onto the selected piece of text (or graphic selection). In-vivo coding is just as simple: the selected text can be dragged into the code manager and assigned to the desired code.

Areas of application for ATLAS.ti

Anthropology
Criminology
Economics
Educational sciences
Ethnological studies
History
Knowledge acquisition
Legal studies
Linguistics
Literary studies
Management studies
Psychology
Sociology
Stylistics
Software engineering
Theology
Political sciences   
and more ....