Comments on: Processing Qualitative Research Data With Tinderbox

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:50:00 +0000

Hi Tom, thanks for this very insightful screencast, brilliant! Cheers Mark

By: SteveJT

SteveJT — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:46:00 +0000

Fantastic. Thanks very much for this post. It has really made me think about how I can use TB for my own work.

By: Torsten

Torsten — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:15:16 +0000

Thanks, Tom, for this excellent screencast! I’m a historian and rather a beginner in Tinderbox. Before watching your screencast the program seemed to complicated to me and I did not use it too often. Your nice piece of work gave me a lot of ideas how to use Tinderbox in my research and I’m looking forward to this. Thanks again, Torsten

By: Mitchell Wade

Mitchell Wade — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:36:29 +0000

Tom, MANY thanks for taking the time to put that screencast together. It’s exactly the mix of research substance and technical tool tricks that I needed to get Tinderbox really working for me. And your comments on the need to switch sides of the brain during this kind of research were wonderful.

By: Mutsumi

Mutsumi — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:33:13 +0000

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your response. It looks like Tinderbox is what I need. I will further look into it.

Yes, that workshop would’ve been amazing.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:59:00 +0000

Intuitively I think that TB might do all I want, but there’s an ease of use with devonthink that allows some original input and recordkeeping that is helpful. I was using Nvivo to do much of what Tom recommends in his video though. When one uses a conceptual framework for qualitative data, Tom’s ideas show the promise of bring comprehensive. I wish I had been at the Workshop where he had presented this.

By: Mutsumi

Mutsumi — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:29:43 +0000

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your suggestion about attaching the name of the original file to a note as an attribute. That sounds like a great idea!

You have mentioned that you use Tinderbox with Devonthink Pro and NVivo. Do you think Tinderbox and the others compliment each other? Do you think Tinderbox can be used in place of Devonthink and/or NVivo?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:21:39 +0000

Thanks so much for this, Tom. I, too, am using Tiderbox in concert with Devonthink Pro and with NVIVO. Your video was extremely helpful. In regard to the above points, I was thinking of an=dding an attribute which keeps the name of the original file, e.g., “Interview with Tom 3,7,10,” with the data “atom.”

By: Mutsumi

Mutsumi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:54:15 +0000

Hi Tom,

Thank you for the video. It’s really interesting. I have been considering using Tinderbox for my research project, it the video illustrates what the software is capable of.

One thing that I’m wondering though, is whether Tinderbox allows the user to go back to the raw (or ‘exploded’) transcripts from a categorised note. Without this function, I’m worried about running a risk of fragmenting and de-contexualising data.

For example, you might have a note in the final sort that is categrised using one of the attributes. But what is being said in the note may only be understood properly in a broader context. Without the ability to then go back to the whole transcripts and cross-referencing the note with other comments in the transcript, you would run the risk of using the comment out of the context. (like journos often do… a terrible practice!)