NVivo for Beginners: Visualizing Your Findings

[@lesleyannekelly3488]

Hi Philip, I could not have done my qual nvivo analysis without your superb videos and demonstrations. You are the best! Thank you!

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome Lesley! I'm glad the videos were helpful to you.

[@sawdaharyee2920]

I am trying to visualize my data but I dont see cases when I select 'add associated items' What may I have done wrong?

[@vivianagbasoga9260]

Thank you so much, Philip. You have no idea how much I have learnt from your videos.

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome Vivian!! I’m so glad it helped!!

[@erinhickman3176]

This series has been such a lifesaver for me thank you so much!

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome! I’m so glad they were helpful!

[@ahmedelmi3196]

Dr. Adu, thank you! This video has confirmed that using Excel for coding and thematic analysis is less complicated and doesn't require learning NVivo. Using Excel is beneficial for students needing to complete assignments within a two-week timeframe. According to the literature, learning NVivo demands a significant time investment. I attempted to learn it twice, but found it to be overwhelming and the back-and-forth between NVivo, Excel and Word is too much time. I'm utilizing Excel, with a separate tab dedicated to each research question. Each tab contains the research question's title, a column listing participants from P1 to the end, and columns for code, category, and theme. So far, this approach has been effective. I've conducted 21 interviews and this work continues. I think learning NVivo is important but students may not have lots of time.

[@drphilipadu]

Ahmed, I appreciate you sharing your expertise with Excel for data analysis. It can indeed be a powerful tool for qualitative studies. When it comes to selecting the best analysis tool, it often boils down to personal preference and the nature of the data at hand. My advice to clients is always: Explore potential tools and go with the one that resonates most with your workflow and comfort level.

[@ms.faizamohamedtabib455]

Hello there. Using NVivo for qualitative research adds rigor, reliability, and trustworthiness to the research, I guess.

[@khadijaalamri6219]

Thank you a lot, Dr. Philip. I am a new user of Nvivo, and you made my life easy with your way of teaching. May Allah bless you.

[@drphilipadu]

I’m so glad it was helpful to you! Allah bless you too!!

[@samuelrodriguez4946]

Thank you Dr. Adu! This has greatly aided me in analyzing my first sets of qualitative data! Very concise and clear tutorials.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!! I'm so glad it was helpful to you.

[@mariamxx7063]

I followed all the videos and am honestly so grateful for you! Thank you for the wonderful explanation; it has helped tremendously!

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!! Thank you for your kind words.

[@letycianascimento1554]

Thank you, professor, you saved my thesis! God blessed you!

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! I'm so glad it helped! God bless you too!

[@BuzziestofBees]

Thank you so much I just sorted my data and found this video very helpful!

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome! I’m so glad it was helpful!

[@nneomapromise7637]

Very detailed video, it was very insightful. You have been an great help,Doc. Keep up the good work.

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad it was helpful to you!

[@getahunsolomonofficial]

Thanks dear! All your tutorials are incredibly helpful!

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!! I'm glad they are helpful to you.

[@jeea18]

Hello Dr. Adu, thank you so much for your videos!! I learn a lot. I pray one day I can teach my future students like you! May Allah bless you with more knowledge and wisdom.

[@drphilipadu]

You're so welcome!! Thank you for your kind words. Allah bless you too!!

[@onyesoogochukwuk86]

I love your presentation.

[@rupindergrewal7905]

Your videos have been a life saver! Thank you so much. Sincerely, a newbie grad student.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!! I'm so glad they are helpful!!! Thank you for your kind words!

[@multi.d.mensional6993]

Extremely helpful, thank you for your videos!!!

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! I'm glad they are helpful to you!

[@londekahope8712]

Hi Dr. Thank you for the videos, they are very helpful.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome @londekahope8712! I'm glad they are helpful to you!

[@mikekimveteran]

Awesome Video! Useful for my studies!

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you 😊

[@aishaksiddiqui5977]

Great tutorial Dr. Philip

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you!!

[@ojongbaa.e510]

This is very helpful. Thank you

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome!!

[@sushila_paudel]

Thankyou from Nepal.

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome! Thank you for watching my videos

[@Omuhiinda1]

Thank you Dr Philip

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!!

[@beautiful_NZ]

Thanks for the video. Would you please make a video on how we can conduct SLR with Nvivo..

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome!! I will do one soon.

[@00x666x00]

Amazing videos, finally understood NVivo capabilities and coding process! Big THANKS Doc and Subsribe :))))

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful to you! Thank you for subscribing to my channel!!

[@LucyDowning-ib3eg]

Hi Philip thank you for your excellent videos! Can I check, do your transcripts only contain content from participant speakers or from the interviewee as well? thank you

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! Great question! They are from both participants and interviewer.

[@ms.faizamohamedtabib455]

Excellent presentation! It was really informative and very well-explained for me as an NVivo beginner. I have a question: When I created the project map and right-clicked on the selected participant, the "Attributed Values" did not pop up on the choices. What could be the reason? I have uploaded the participant demographics from the beginning, though. Do you have any thoughts?

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you found the presentation informative and helpful as an NVivo beginner. 😊 Regarding your question, there are a couple of things you might want to check: Ensure Cases Are Created: First, confirm that you have created a case for each participant file. Without cases, NVivo may not recognize the connection to the demographic data. Link Cases to Demographic Data: Make sure the cases are properly connected to the participants’ demographic data under the case classification. This step ensures that NVivo can associate the demographic attributes with the corresponding cases. This video would help kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHqQnIaJfc-Krq8si=Nc0AiNVqSW7bpY_A

[@tonitataylor8372]

Super helpful videos Philip - thanks for sharing. I have a question. I am working with survey data. Once you have coded the qualitative responses, and then chunked your codes up into themes, I want to be able to see if the themes are different, depending on age, gender, location, ethnicity... Based on your description, the Framework matrix seemed to be able to do this, but I can't seem to make this work. I can see the attribute values, but I want the table to have the attribute values as the rows, rather than the individual cases. Any tips of how to achieve this?

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! Framework matrix can only show cases (files) and themes connected to them. To explore the connection between the demographic variables and themes generated, I suggest you go to 'Explore' tab and click on 'Matrix Coding Query'.

[@monicacoronel2255]

Very useful. Thank you!

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!!

[@margaretadanini]

Thanks so much Dr. Adu. I want to ask how is the classification and presentation of codes you put in other (when the finding from the data is not related to any of your RQ)? I think this should be a new finding from the study that could be of interest, but how do you go about it? Thank you sir.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! Thank you for your questions. After presenting the themes addressing the research questions, you could also share that unique information under 'Other Findings' section. It's not required to share the information that doesn't address your research questions but if it is important to present, I suggest you do so.

[@ahmedelmi3196]

Dr. Adu, thank you! How do you make sure the word cloud does not include questions. In your example for creating word cloud, it seems that you have used the entire script, which include questions.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome Ahmed! Great question, one option is to use auto code separate questions asked from their response but it will depend on how the questions are formatted and their responses are formatted on Word document. Alternatively, you can run word frequency/cloud based on the relevant information coded instead on focusing on the entire document.

[@kunakkabuksuku1034]

Thank you for this helpful video

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome :)

[@paigemonaghan1470]

Fab presentation Dr. Adu! I was wondering if there is a way to find out % of quotes dedicated to 1 theme? Currently I can only see the % per participant, but wondering if there was a way to see OVERALL, eg. '22% of all quotes from all participants was dedicated to theme X'

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you! You could explore percentages per code by creating 'Crosstab'. You can go to the 'Explore' tab and click on 'Queries' to select 'Crosstab'.

[@mayotet]

Thank you, Philip Adu, PhD for this brilliant presentation. How can you visualise findings for 92 participants? I feel approaching it from the mapping and bringing out the characteristics of the respondents under the theme may look untidy when you have more than 80 respondents. How best can you present findings with 90+ respondents?

[@drphilipadu]

You're right! Creating maps may not be the best option. In case you want to create maps, you can select a few participants to do that. Alternatively, you can create Matrix Query Table, showing specific demographic variables and their connections to the themes.

[@amandanegreti896]

Thank you very much. Please, I would like to understand how to create the cases (below codes), I put the same interviews in the codes and cases? And how can I put the demographic information?

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome Amanda! I just made this video to address your questions: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmfChWqbnbiKmNk

[@christyfash6277]

Thanks Dr Adu. Your videos are quite explanatory and helpful. Can I send you an email to discuss how to analyse my data please ?

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you! Here is my email: [e-mail]

[@ismiyabegum4179]

Great Dr. Your all vedios are very clear and useful

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you 😊

[@INwach]

Thank you so much. I recently bumped into your videos, your presentation style is easy to follow and understand. However, I have one issue using the framework matrix, it's been a bit clumsy because my data was collected using focus groups, so I have multiple speakers, unlike interview transcripts where you have one speaker. My table (rows) came out blank without extracts of what participants said in relation to the code/theme. I need help with this.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!! Because all participants' data are in one file/document, Framework matrix won't show relevant information extracted for each participant. Did you click on 'Auto Summarize' after creating the matrix?

[@BPLauNath.]

hi, thanks for the guide. pls how do i download to my system pls.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! You can right-click on it and select 'export..'

[@mojolaayeni3240]

Godbless you Dr

[@drphilipadu]

God bless you too!!

[@Henrique_KE-y9m]

Is it possible to present all themes in one visual, like on concept map rather than one visual for each theme?

[@drphilipadu]

Yes, it's possible. Especially, if you have established the connections between the themes based on the data.

[@Henrique_KE-y9m]

Could you do a video for that please@@drphilipadu

[@joannaervik1824]

Hello. Thank you for an informative video. I followed your video and tried to export my framework matrix but it failed. it says" Failed to export Framework Matroix due to the following: Input string was not in a correct format." What does it mean? And can you please help me how to solve it. I appreciate your help.

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!! I'm not sure what to do to address this issue. I haven't seen this error message before. I'm so sorry I wasn't able to help.

[@DarineAlem]

hello Phillip, my framework mattress is empty? Im not sure what did I do wrong?

[@drphilipadu]

You can click 'Auto Summarize' after creating the table (see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5bJeoaAiqZ5odUsi=hlnQZCu4gwlxTr2x&t=855)

[@DarineAlem]

yes , thanks a lot Philip@@drphilipadu

[@mojolaayeni3240]

Good evening sir, Please I am using nvivo for my dissertation am I to export thr codes and I don't understand what a code book means

[@drphilipadu]

Code book is simply a document with a list of codes/themes you have used to code the data and information about what they represent. In others words, it contains codes and their definitions.

[@mojolaayeni3240]

Thank you, please where can I get it in nvivo

[@mojolaayeni3240]

Seen it, thank you

[@mojolaayeni3240]

Dr Adu please I need clarification on how I can do a write up on the project map do I use the codes as the reference, kind of confused? Please help?

[@drphilipadu]

@@mojolaayeni3240 Thia video would help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5bJeoaAiqZ5odUsi=rsBnc9On-PnxB_K1&t=77

[@bekewuruballard6870]

Great job. Is there any difference between node and case?

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you!! Codes/nodes are containers we create based on the what we select from the data. Case is a file we create for each participant. Participant’s case contains their demographic information, transcript, and codes and themes generated.

[@poojapriya3116]

Do you charge for one on one consultation?

[@drphilipadu]

Yes, I do. If you’re interested, here’s my email: [e-mail]

[@happysingle9204]

How to show the generated codes and child codes with reference?

[@drphilipadu]

You can right-click on any of the codes and go to 'Expert' and click on 'Export list'

[@peterrees9530]

In Framework Matrices, i press auto-summarise and none of my data shows, up cells remain empty even after I selected all my participants in ROWS and themes in COLUMNS. What is happening? Also run query function has stopped working, keeps on coming up error when i try and do a text or word search.

[@drphilipadu]

Can you right-click on each of the codes and themes to make sure 'Aggregate Coding from Children' is checked.

[@rainbow.zebra.]

I would like to present a framework matrix, but it doesn't appear to be an option in NVivo anymore....

[@drphilipadu]

Are you using NVivo Mac?

[@rainbow.zebra.]

@@drphilipadu yes

[@alfredng908]

when I was doing the Framework mattress all the table were empty, why is that?

[@alfredng908]

it says 100.00% Coverage in everything 🥲

[@alfredng908]

I've found out: is the each case contains everything basically the same as the transcripts (the files) what could I do next?

[@alfredng908]

I e got it now it has an automatic button 😂😂😂

[@drphilipadu]

Great! I'm glad you got it!!

[@akinbulifeyisara4770]

Hi, i created a frame work matrix but it is empty

[@drphilipadu]

You need to click on 'Auto Summarize' (see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5bJeoaAiqZ5odUsi=mJnTUNrpPN0fLxnW&t=855)

[@nishamathura6573]

How do I get a percentage of participants per theme?

[@drphilipadu]

When you export the themes to excel spreadsheet, you can create the percentages. You can export them by right clicking on any of the themes, go to ‘Export’ and click on ‘Export List’

[@mojolaayeni3240]

My framework matrix isn't loading the participant talk o I use nvivo 14

[@drphilipadu]

After creating the table, click on the 'Framework matrix tab and click on the 'Auto summarize'.

[@mojolaayeni3240]

It's working now

[@mojolaayeni3240]

Thank you sir

[@mantey_voice]

❤❤❤❤

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you!!

[@joannaclarke6080]

I got lost on the matrix because I am not looking at demographic so could not do that part

[@drphilipadu]

If you're not looking into the connection between demographics and themes, then I suggest you shouldn't use matrix coding query.

[@MalesuMaureen]

Thank you

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome!!

[@nabilatabassum5805]

I am not interested in developing a project map, word search or word cloud. I just want to create a Framework matrix to present all the information in a table. The steps demonstrated in the video are not supportive in this case. Please guide.

[@drphilipadu]

Are you using Mac version of NVivo?

[@khairiabdullah9883]

Thanks

[@drphilipadu]

You’re welcome!

[@jamforall]

There is no way this is better than AI chat GPT In creating summaries, themes, tables, how concepts are related to frameworks and how frameworks can be created and how concepts of particular theories can be broken down and analyzed..

[@drphilipadu]

Each of the tools has a role to play in our data analysis process. For me, if I have a lot of data, I'll first use ChatGPT to help summarize and generate initial codes and themes and I'll then use the codes/themes to manually code aspects of the data with the help of a qualitative data analysis tool such as NVivo or Dedoose.

[@afafriahi9966]

Thanks a million for your fruitful presentations. I have a question. In one of your previous videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHqQnIaJfc-Krq8 (32:50), you said that you can label codes that are not relevant to the research questions but still important as other findings. How can we eventually sorting and presenting them?

[@drphilipadu]

You're welcome! Great question! You could sort them the same way codes under their research questions are sorted. There a lot of flexibility when it comes to dealing with codes/themes under the 'Other findings' container. You can choose not to present them but if you think presenting all or some of them will provide additional supporting information to the main findings, then you could present them.

[@afafriahi9966]

@@drphilipadu OK thanks Philip!! ☺️

[@peterrees9530]

Too many ads interrupting this video.

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you Peter for letting me know! I'll look into fixing it!

[@gocreateopp9239]

Great Dr. Adu. Your videos are helpful. Please can you give me your email address, I would like to discuss my thesis with you.

[@drphilipadu]

Thank you! Here is my email address: [e-mail]