Which qualitative methods can Byleron QDA support?
Overview
Byleron QDA supports researchers conducting coding-based qualitative work across text, documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, audio, and video. Its strongest fit is qualitative content analysis, thematic analysis, codebook or template analysis, framework analysis, comparative and cross-case analysis, document analysis, visual qualitative analysis, and multisource or multimodal analysis. It can also help organize work associated with grounded theory, narrative, discourse, phenomenological, and conversation-oriented approaches, but those methods require methodological decisions and close researcher interpretation that software cannot automate.
What to do
- Choose the method from the research question, epistemological position, data, and reporting expectations—not from a software feature.
- Set up a suitable project description, codebook, cases or metadata, and memo practice before broad coding.
- Use Analysis and Results Builder to inspect and report the work, while retaining your methodological audit trail.