Save anonymized projects

If your project contains sensitive data, MAXQDA 2018 lets you automatically save an anonymized copy of the project. A prerequisite: The sensitive text areas must first be appropriately coded. When you save an anonymized copy, all the text locations coded with selected codes will be replaced by XXX and/or the code name, rendering them anonymous.

Reports for summaries with coded segments

With MAXQDA 2018, you can now create reports in Word, which displays your summaries together with their corresponding coded segments in a table overview. For each selected code, the generated report displays the coded segments in selected documents in a separate column and supplements these with summaries in another column.

Interactive Quote Matrix

The Interactive Quote Matrix function allows you to display coded texts or image segments from specific source documents. These documents are selected and compared according to conditions for document variables which you can freely define. This allows you to quickly and easily compare the views of different groups on a selection of topics.

You can also view all your memos and/or comments connected to the displayed segments as a further option. And as the function is interactive, you can jump from the segment to the original with a single click to view the material in its original context.

Codes and coding

• Create multiple codes directly in the “New code” dialog window without closing the window
• Display columns with variable values in the “Overview of Retrieved Segments”
• Previously assigned shortcuts are visible in the property menu of a code
• You can hide the display of a segment’s weight in your “Retrieved Segments”
• Frequencies in the “Code System” can either show the total number of times a code has been assigned, or display in how many different documents a code was assigned
• Assign or change code colors more quickly with predefined colors
• Include codes that don’t have a code memo in the codebook export
• Frequency tables and charts display more information about the number of documents and segments in which selected codes occur.
• Statistics for subcodes: informative labels for easy interpretation
• The Complex Coding Query now allows you to drag and drop codes directly from your “Code System”
• You can display comments on coded segments right next to the document in a separate comment column
• Intercoder Agreement: Analyze coded segments in a document against a reference document

Documents

• Add selections from texts, PDFs or image documents as a new document to the “Document System”
• Simpler and faster creation of new text documents
• New text format option: “Struck-through”

Memos

• Sort the “Overview of Memos“ by date and time of last memo edit

Summarys

• Insert summary tables as a table document into the Document List
• Display or hide comments, memos, and sources in visualizations

Visualizations

• Create a Word Cloud of the most frequently occurring words from the content of the”Retrieved Segments” window
• The Code Relations Browser (overlapping codes) can be limited to the segments in your “Retrieved Segments” window and can be opened from directly here
• The Code Relations Browser lets you select filter codes so that only the coded segments that occur within this code are evaluated
• Code Matrix Browser (codes per document) and Code Relations Browser: the size of the square symbols factors in the difference between the smallest and greatest values
• Code Matrix Browser and Code Relations Browser: both allow you to change the code system display between a hierarchical or list structure; unactivated parent codes are ignored in the case of a list display
• Code Matrix Browser and Code Relations Browser: Improved calculation for size of visualizations (squares/circles) for more intuitive interpretation
• Document Comparison Chart: compare texts, PDF documents and media files of any length by standardizing the length to 100 units
• Document Portrait: four new sizes for the overall portrait picture picture and you can choose either a square or rectangular shape

Mixed Methods

• When activating documents according to variables, several new comparative operators can be used, including “variable value is less than or equal”, “Greater or equal” and “contains”. These additions are also useful for other processes, such as creating a quote matrix or crosstab
• Create a quote matrix for your coded segments and comments or only comments
• Quote matrix shows information about the number of documents in each column heading
• Quantitizing: Transform all activated codes into document variables at once
• Crosstab: Display codes with a “collapsible” hierarchy so that subcodes can be aggregated

Search in Text

• Easier entry of multiple search terms using the return key
• Your last search terms are saved with the project file
• Save and load advanced search settings
• A “beginning of words” option for contextual searches in the “Document Browser” and the “Retrieved Segments” window
• The default lemmatisation corresponds to your MAXQDA interface language

Teamwork

• Limit Teamwork exports to include only content in activated documents and/or codes
• Save activated (as well as coded) documents as a separate project

Overview Tables

• Filter and sort table columns in multiple levels and reset sorting for all columns of a table
• Simplified filter customization

Export

• Project components can be exported collectively as Excel files
• The export function for coded segments as text and tables has been greatly expanded with respect to the exportable information (11 new options)
• RTF exports include footers and headers

Logbook

• Search within your logbook

MAXDictio

• You can store the number of words in a document as a variable document

Stats

• The contents of the output viewer remain stored even after you close Stats
• Document sets created in Stats can also be viewed and deleted without closing Stats

Miscellaneous

• Quick contact to the MAXQDA team via built-in feedback field
• New start screen with up-to-date news
• Progress indicators have been improved
• Improved context menus providing better overviews