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Qualitative Data Analysis using NVivo

Qualitative Data and AI

We're not there yet, IMHO. The two biggest issues are around confidentiality and context. For the confidentiality question, all of these services require you to upload your data to a remote server. Please carefully read all the privacy statements, and consider whether your ethics approval allows you to use one of these services if your data is leaving your computer. More practically, you need to ensure you have the ability to tell the service all about your research project, otherwise the tool has no context in which to answer your questions.

Both of these issues are addressable, but I have yet to see them both adequately solved.

With that disclaimer out of the way, here are some tools and links you can poke at, in no particular order.

AILYZE
BrewNote
Upload user interview recordings, download AI-powered notes
CoLoop
How to Take Perfect Notes with Your Voice Using ChatGPT and Notion
Want to record voice memos, automatically transcribe them (a.k.a. speech to text), summarize them, and send the transcripts and summaries to Notion?
LLooM
From Stanford. "From unstructured text to interpretable concepts" Looks pretty techie
Ludra
MaxQDA with AI Assist
AI Assist is an add-on that will summarize text in your qualitative data.
There's an AI for that (Qualitative)
Viable
Ween
AI for Discovery and Review of the Literature
A Lib Guide from Kennesaw State University Libraries

Academic Literature

Christou, P. A. (2024). Thematic Analysis through Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Qualitative Report, 29(2), 560-576. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7046
TL;DR - The author underscores the importance of not allowing AI to overshadow the analyst's critical evaluative and interpretive skills but instead supporting the use of AI as an aid in thematic analysis, enhancing the depth and breadth of analysis, provided certain criteria are adhered to.

Khalil, H., Ameen, D., & Zarnegar, A. (2022). Tools to support the automation of systematic reviews: A scoping review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 144, 22-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.12.005

Allot, A., Lee, K., Chen, Q., Luo, L., & Lu, Z. (2021). LitSuggest: a web-based system for literature recommendation and curation using machine learning. Nucleic acids research, 49(W1), W352–W358. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab326

Paulus, T. M., & Marone, V. (2024). “In Minutes Instead of Weeks”: Discursive Constructions of Generative AI and Qualitative Data Analysis. Qualitative Inquiry, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241250065
TL;DR - Don't get sucked in by the marketing hype, and remember what actually brings value to qualitative data analysis.

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Academic Literature