Using AtlasTI for qualitative data analysis

1. Login

• Go to atlasti.com
• Login to your Atlas TI Cloud account

2. Set up your project

• Once you have entered click ‘Create a new project’  and add the information for your project
• Give a name to your project. You can also give a description and a specific color for each of your projects.
• Start adding your data to continue to your analysis.
• Every Atlas TI project is comprised of documents.
• This refers to any source of information you’re going to be analyzing.
• Add your documents by clicking ‘Add Document’.

3. Understand your Data

• Codes are tags that you will associate to your different segments off information, so that you can analyze and organize all of your data.
• Memos are notebooks you can use to note down any ideas or analytic insights
• Add memos to record your thoughts and ideas as you read through your transcripts
• Quotations are the actual segment of data that you are going to go trough selecting as you read trough your documents.

4. Analyze your Data - pinpoint qualitative insights

• Generating quotations using codes and adding comments across your documents place a central role in your qualitative analysis process
• To create a quotation highlight relevant text for your research topic.
• Choose from an existing quote or add a new one.
• You can also add a comment to reflect on a quotation.
• You can create quotes for words, the full sentence or the  full paragraph.

5. Visualize your Data Analysis

• Once you have finished analyzing your research and adding quotes, memos and more, you may visit the quotation manager.
• There you will find the number of paragraphs, sentences or words you quoted with the same name
• . By clicking on one of them you will see a detailed list of the sections you quoted with that word.

Congratulations you are now able to use AtlasTI for qualitative data analysis!