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1. 71 Cr ate a free memo quere terranes e OR ERE Gd E t OT E ear ania D LR cou EE ug AY CEPR e ORE NER aan aaa ta 71 Attaching Memos to Data Segmento nE 72 Data Analysis OOS scxccncast nineties aeae a 73 OVEIVICW EE Amal SiS TOO Scion ici M M The Word Crucis Creating a Word Frequency Report Query Tool tees The Query Tool Window Operands Basic Operands Complex Operands Operators ies ThE QUERY Lang ag nsrrnss ierra an e aaa Eaa ieee Ea a Rae cE nA cae ainsi MARU ane deepen eee Operands First Operators Nexus aa iaa ica Creating a Query with the Query Tool oF A Booleafi QUE ti niu t RH E D EGIT QUEUE ETE HIERO ERU OY HY EE RE ret teva Tie tad Output of Query Results 2 32 22 2 e rtr tti e LOU A EE SEED TE C ED EE d YD E ab tee rete Viewing results in context M Creating a Report certes ge iC tatastedi corte rede ete tot ere n rec tta tne T FO ce Cod CERE AE GE re cafa Super Codes P o Creating Super Codes as Restricting Code Queries to SUB Groups rinses ae ld tiet tenure ebur ide Dic Cra dba atat da Da Ded Lave ern De Combining group of documents to restrict SearchefS o oonnnnnininninininninnonnannnn aan rara 88 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL SUPER Falta E a Co pccurrence TOO Sii E p UO d i eed oa tte dra p e e oed dete edit pe rtg Ho
2. video quotation Oe Audio and video quotations can be as short as a few milliseconds The length of a quotation can be selected on a time line Segment starting points and length are displayed in the following formats milliseconds HH MM SS ms frames for videos ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 16 GoogleEarth Quotations Secondimurder Chapman 115 31Hanbury Stre 117 10 First k Siteloffifth murder gt 17 7 Second murder Chapman Hanbury Street Site of second murder Second Victim Annie Chapmann killed on Saturday 8 September 1888 in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street T murder y y Quotation 17 7 in PD P17 Murder sites in Google Earth of fou ith Codes 1 murder_site e x w M Memos 0 none Created 31 01 2010 23 57 29 by ATLAS ti 6 1 9 Route Hier hin Von hier ES Ll y E MSS ones AMAS _ mage 2 2011 When creating a GE quotation you see the ATLAS ti icon on the GE map It is linked to one location and thus is different from all other types of quotations that present a range The quotation ID shows either the name of the document or the feature s name if applicable In addition the geographic reference of the marked location is provided See our library for an example on how to work with GoogleEarth data http downloads atlasti com library Cisneros 2009 03 17 pdf Codes Ed The term code is used in many different ways First we would l
3. 39 Iristalling an acb atlas copy bundle file ioco o eee t ern tete tte pr tee tee t cr i fd en ending edere seria taki daniels 39 Possible conflicts is dn sexdecim odere dedere E 40 Modifying An Existing Project Setup en dede ie o airada 42 Changing absolute path references to the optimal HUPATH Di P ETE E 42 Exchanging doc or docx files with rtf files changing paths as mE What You Should Know About Editing nennen ener Required data file format What is changed Rule No 2 Never delete or modify the auxiliary log file How t edit cheated ecce Editing primary documents in team sit ations n a ert cape a ea te b a din d a E C a Hk rr EP Hc Editing in teams using a server based project setup Editing in teams when working at different locations If the project administrator only is allowed to edit Best practice rules for editing primary doc rmierits 23 cerneret d emn de ee dtc pa araceli aaa td Basic Coding Techniques is A xpo Een ee ace pas 48 OPEN COGINS M Meaning of colored bars in the margin Coding vla drag amp drop s d Rep e a etes t tere ete BN E colos teet cert Dal bakes Replacing ac deal lalala de de eed eterne etiatn da Modifying the length of a quotation TO enlarge a segment T e To decrease the size ofa segmierit ca ce ses cinch nei tn
4. Choose Nobes Import Co occurrinc Cones from the Network Editor s menu Creating Output Several output options are available for Network Views The range is from printing the layout via copying to the clipboard in a variety of formats both textual and graphical and by saving a Network View to a file ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 112 Printing Networks Before printing a Network View the first time you may prefer to set some general options include title print border etc Specials Prererences PRINTING You can either print the entirety or part of a Network View Open the Network View and arrange all nodes to be printed If you want to print a selection of nodes only select these nodes for multiple selection hold down the Ctrl key Choose Network Print Network View from the Network Editor s menu In the Printer dialog window that opens check Selection to print selected nodes only If the size of the network view determined by the node layout exceeds a single page depending on current printer settings scaling or multi page print will be offered as a choice F Make your choice and the network view will be printed Network Views for other Applications Copy to Clipboard The menu option Network Cory ro CuipBOARD copies the network view to the Windows clipboard From the clipboard it can be included in Word or other foreign documents The Network View all nodes or selected no
5. Take a look at your screen With one click you have created four new entries E due 1 6 Is it because we see others st 12 12 v E Codes x focussing on the upside 1 0 y i h Status 1nus wnar mese results are children does not bring joy to our lives gt have children in the first place F imany are less happy then those without quotation code n t be as much of a struggle for us Because Xt focussi ng on the upside he little chubby cheeks Powdthavee ioosing parenthood t children bring happiness When people are eco Enea m ee Fontem en dot Elton Figure 16 HU editor after setting a first code You have created your first quotation and code Each is displayed both textually in the respective drop down list and graphically in the margin area The separation of quotation and code has a number of advantages As they are independent objects you can comment on each code but also on each quotation Quotations cannot only be linked to codes but also to each other and to memos This is a prerequisite for the hyperlink function discussed in the respective chapter in the full manual It allows you to work directly at the data level without necessarily using codes Meaning of colored bars in the margin as much of a struggle for us Because 34 focussing on the upside chubby cheeks Powdthavee g parenthood ren bring happiness When people are pring or thinking about their current dsome bo
6. a mental state of well being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy Merged Comment from joyful 2011 04 26T12 15 02 data segments that indicate joy Merged Comment from being content 2011 04 26T12 15 02 interviewees talk about being content Figure 20 Combined comments after merging leaving an audit trail Figure 20 Combined comments after merging leaving an audit trailshows the comment for the code Happiness after merging it with the two codes joyful and being content Writing code definitions Comments can be written into the white field below the windows splitter When entering a comment for codes this is in most cases a definition a coding rule and possibly a sample quote the commented object is marked by a tilde When you write a comment for one of your codes and you are finished click on another code the definition is saved and you see the tilde after the code If you close the window immediately after writing the definition a message pops up asking you whether you want to save the comment ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 55 Coding other media types Coding a PDF Document Coding a PDF document is essentially the same as coding rtf doc or txt files Selecting a text segment in PDF documents however requires a bit of practice If you place the cursor too far to the left of the text you will select only a
7. Components of the Family Manager The Family Manager s main pane lists all families for the specific object type The window displays the name member size author and creation and modification dates not currently visible The columns can be used to sort the families according to these criteria by clicking the column header The left list below the family list displays the family members already assigned The two buttons between the list panes are for assigning or removing items from the selected family e The right list displays all items not currently assigned to the selected family The comment area contains an optional description for the family To Open a Family Manager Select Ept FAMiLiES Open Family Manacer from the Documents Copes or Memos menu The Epit Famiies submenu is available from the Documents Codes and Memos menu The Family Manager is also available by clicking the Family button in the corresponding Object Manager see left ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 62 Creating Families Before using a family it must first be created in the Family Manager Open the Family Manager for PDs codes or memos Click the button Create a New Item or select the menu option Famiies New FamiLy already existing family you will hear an error sound A message pops up Enter a name when prompted and click OK If you enter the name of an letting you know that the entered name is not
8. ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX Appendix Useful Resources 135 The ATLAS ti Website http www atlasti com The ATLAS ti website should be a regular place to visit Here you will find important information such as video tutorials additional documentation of various software features workshop announcements special service providers and announcements of recent service packs and patches Quick Tour http quicktour atlasti com To get started we recommend to work your way through the Quick Tour Within 1 5 2 hours you get an overview of the main functions and an idea on how to conduct an analysis with ATLAS ti When you are ready to start your own project use this Mini Manual as your continuing guide Full Manual and How To Documents http manual atlasti com Find more detailed information on the various functions introduced in this manual plus tips and tricks and special instructions on how to work with specific type of documents ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 136 Video tutorials http tutorials atlasti com If you like to learn via video tutorials we offer a range of short videos on the following topis Features and Interface Getting started on a project Coding Visualizing Working with Network Views and Hyperlinks Library http library atlasti com The library contains a list of white papers by various authors mostly ATLAS ti trainers and consultants extracted from past ne
9. Use Built in Tool If you want to output the frequency count in Excel compatible format uncheck this option The built in tool is a simple list ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 76 window In addition to the frequency count size and percentage for each word is shown The built in tool can only be used for a selected PD Use Stoplist Use a stop list to exclude words from the count Instead of enumerating every variant of a word you can specify patterns You can create powerful stop lists for different languages different topics and different levels of detail Clean text before counting ignore The characters specified in this dialog will be removed from the source word before it is counted Example including eliminates the difference between Hello and Hello Ignore case If checked upper and lowercase letters are ignored Hello HELLO and hello are not counted separately After all options are set click the OK button The figure below shows the result when using the built in tool for a single PD If you want to see the word frequency count for all or selected documents use the Excel output option fr 3 ATLAS ti Word Cruncher 2 0 Scanned 37 lines Total Token 2052 Types 814 Type Token Ratio 0 39 Word Size Count 1 11 0 53 ABBERLINE 9 1 0 04 ABDOMEN 7 6 0 29 ABDOMINAL 9 1 0 04 ABOUT 5 8 0 38 ACCESS 6 1 0 04 ACCIDENTALLY 12 1 ACCOMPANIED il 1 ACCORDIN
10. this is what we really mean Quotations coded with code A OR quotations coded with B Therefore entering the operand code X displays the quotation names which were coded with X in the results list Next you can either view the resulting quotations in context within the primary document or generate a report that contains the full length quotations with or without their comments A Boolean Query The example below uses the HU Jack the Ripper stage II Please load and display this HU while reading the following You can access the samples file via Herr Quick Tour Our sample query using Boolean operators is this Find all quotations coded with either code reason released alibi or code reason released lack of evidence Open the Query Tool by clicking on the binoculars button in the main toolbar Double click on the code reason released alibi The Query Tool displays the following entries ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 81 a ATLAS ti Query Tool ES Query 3 Investigation 6 2 Letter 6 3 Modus operandi 5 PY Mora Y Codes Y amp i murder witnesses 10 0 Y amp i murderer description 22 0 i murderer motive 1 1 X murderer serial killer 11 2 3S murderer_various persons 4 0 Z murders canonical five 4 6 Y amp murders_more less than five 5 Xi murders potentially attributed He was cleared of suspicion when 0 RB REASON RELEASED
11. 11 Report 6 quotation s for 1 code HU Jack the Ripper stage II 62 File C ProgramData Scientific Software ATLASti CommonDocumen Jack the Ripper stage II 62 hpr6 Edited by team Date Time 2011 09 14 20 24 20 Mode quotation list names and references header information Quotation Filter All letter_authenticity P 4 1 Jack the Ripper_Letters rtf 4 14 Because so many hoax letters were received by Scot 28 28 Susa Codes letter_authenticity Family Letter No memos Because so many hoax letters were received by Scotland Yard the press and others it is not known definitively if this was an authentig letter written by the Whitechapel killer It did contain information that was compelling enough to lead investigators to publish a facsimj Figure 82 Report header information Sorts amp Filters Many list reports are affected by the currently active filter for the reported objects For instance if the primary document s filter is set to a specific family creating a report of All quotations yields only those quotations for primary documents within that specific family rs 95 All current quotations 40 Quotation Filter Hyper extended version File Edit Format Insert Help Eu T courierNew vill vB All current quotations 40 Quotation Filter Hyper extended version HU Jackthe Ripper stage II 62 File CAProgramDatalScientific Software ATLASti CommonDocumen Jack
12. ATLAS ti 6 User Manual Copyright 2011 by ATLAS ti Scientific Software Development GmbH Berlin All rights reserved Version 349 20111116 Author Dr Susanne Friese QUARC Consulting Realization Programming Dr Thomas G Ringmayr www hypertexxt com Copying or duplicating this manual or any part thereof is a violation of applicable law No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including but not limited to photocopying without written permission from ATLAS ti GmbH Trademarks ATLAS ti is a registered trademark of ATLAS ti Scientific Software Development GmbH Adobe Acrobat is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated Microsoft Windows Excel and other Microsoft products referenced herein are either trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or in other countries Google Earth is a trademark of Google Inc All other product names and any registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned in this document are used for identification purposes only and remain the exclusive property of their respective owners ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL Contents ITO ENG EU tur e Rcx et AL AM E EE toit teu 9 Marie rc E 10 The Hermeneutic Unit FU iere Hee Eten Ete ER re ee Cdi e te EE D e retentu dn 10 Primary Documents PD or PDoC 53er eite ect tette eee a eit decem cf tede n ded Hor dd ned dre d ad 11 Pr
13. Accessigiiry Report Save the output as file and then contact the support center e g via the Herp More Resources menu Embedded Objects Cannot be Activated In order to activate objects embedded in primary documents memos or comments the object s application e g Excel needs to be installed You might have received an HU created on another computer which had the application installed Another cause is that you may have uninstalled the application needed for activation Cannot Enter Edit Mode for Primary Documents Currently only RTF and plain text documents can be edited under ATLAS ti s control An assigned Word document doc or docx cannot be edited To be able to edit a document created with Word you need to save it from Word as a rich text document rtf before you assign the document If you have assigned a document in doc or docx format and are in need to edit it you can turn it into an internal document Highlight the entire document and copy it e g Ctrl C Manacement New Text Document Enter a name for the document The Next create a new internal document via Documents Data Source document will be loaded in edit mode Paste the coded content of the doc or docx into the new text document Then save and leave edit mode Disconnect the assigned doc or docx file from the HU right click on the document in the PDoc Manager and select the option Disconnect Reporting Bugs Most errors that occur dur
14. HUPATH yes m 5 17 11 2003 10 graphic l Wi New York Tim lt HUPATH gt yes m 2 83MB 2T i richtext Wi Berliner Zeitu lt HUPATH gt yes E 226 02KB 15 01 2004 11 E FAZ Schwarz lt HUPATH gt yes m 9 07KB 08 10 2003 21 Check whether a Exdude selected documents oe all files can be Conflict Color Code unbundled Ill No conflict detected HU will be unbundled Existing fil bi itten sposi ei UNA all documents will be ll Path cannot be created unbundled Fallback path used s Figure 11 Install bundle window Choose a location for the HU file in the field HU PATH Check the color of the boxes in the column Use to see if there are conflicts and correct them if needed Green and yellow are OK if you are transferring a project for the first time or into an empty folder you will see green boxes When migrating a project between computers multiple times then the boxes are yellow This means the files already exist on the target computer and will be overwritten with newer versions If no conflicts are reported and nothing needs correcting click on the button UNBUNDLE The acb file is then unpacked and all the documents will be copied into the corresponding directories The unpacked HU opens in a new HU editor window Possible conflicts Ml Version conflict detected li Path cannot be created E Fallback path used Figure 12 Possible conflicts when installing an acb fil
15. User defined content If you have not set a code family as filter all co occurrences for each pair of codes will be displayed This potentially results in a huge table Therefore in the columns to the left of the table you can select the codes that should be listed in the columns and rows This produces more purposeful tables n the first column select the codes to be displayed in the columns using the usual Windows selection techniques for multiple item selecting via the Ctrl or Shift key F In the second column select the codes to be displayed in the rows Activate the option Use selected codes You find this option above the two selecting fields ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 93 Y Use selected codes date of murder 13 0 historic context 4 0 name of suspect 28 0 Select codes to be displayed in the columns ES ES ES KG ES X name of victim 14 4 T INVESTIGATION 14 0 T investigation_doubts 12 reason released mix up d reason released never t v reason released theory Z reason released theory r Select codes to be displayed in the rows 4 role of the media siding Figure 52 Select codes to be displayed in either the columns or rows of the table The table below provides a good overview of the reasons why the five suspects Cohen Feigenbaum Kaminski Kelly and Kosminski were suspected name of s
16. D S EA7 dar ITN M E 8 lang_metaphoric 16 1 Create Super Code x amp Nal t 5 3 LAYOUT 0 0 ld Naina S Candidate Quotations in Query E erm E2813 how mapy4votes I got b IB Id Name Size Stat De Auth X E m E 5 d id ee A 8 14 Bi Pride in Austria for Schwarz 3 81 Sus g sub title 4 0 E Mrd raum 8 16 e tru 8 2 On 77th Day the Voters Speak 1 122 Susa out 4 emphasis 4 0 E y t5 Been fo 3 0 8 18 em cided it 8 3 In an emphatic end to an extra 1 202 Susar Layout info 3 0 n 8 20 When he Said California would 8 4 Californians voted overwhelmin 1 20 1 Susar Y N NFWSPAPFRS 0 0 pre ilia 38 5 the Austrian born bodybuilder 1 201 Susar Adjacency Operator Settings Refresh Codes Scope Help Des With nearly 100 percent of the 1 211 Susar ex COMES S Figure 47 Restricting a search to a sub group of data Figure 26 above shows a simply query for the code lang direct quote use of direct quotes in newspapers articles The question of interest is whether this writing style is used equally across the various newspapers The two countries compared are Germany and the USA The frequency for all documents is 25 see the code in the code list on the left hand side The scope is set to the PD family Country USA This means that the result pane is filtered only displaying quotations from US newspapers This results in 16 quotations w
17. Select the option Chain to link a next data segment to the current target quotation Select Fini to end the chain s Hyper Link Star More links with 4 5 Chain More links with 4 6 Fini Figure 75 Select Chain to link another quotation to the current target quotation To create a star Proceed as explained above To create a chain but select the option Star Then the next quotation is linked to the current source quotation For your information the quotation IDs for the current source and target quotations are listed in the menu Creating Hyperlinks in the Quotation Manager This method can be applied to connect one or more existing quotations to one target quotation Select one or more source quotations in the Quotation Manager multiple selections can be done in the standard way Hold down the left mouse button and drag the quotation s to a target quotation in the Quotation Manager Release the left mouse button The Relation menu opens and you can specify the relation to be used for the hyperlinks The new hyperlinks are created ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION The margin area permits a very intuitive traversal of hyper links 121 Id E 4 3 en Eddowes was found three day 16 16 E 4 4 le or in part 16 16 lt 4 5 Dear Boss lette 21 21 gt 4 6 eved this letter and the postc 25 25 5 1 About 11 p m 3 Link to quote 5 1 5 2 was born EE EE gt gt gt g
18. in the document For textual quotations ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 14 the reference given is to the paragraph numbers within which the coded segment occurs 9 9 thus means that the quotation starts and ends in paragraph 9 For image files the rectangular area marked as the quotation is referenced Audio quotes use a time reference and for video quotations you can choose between time or frame numbers References for PDF quotations consist of page number and number of characters on the page for start and end positions In case the document contains columns the column number is provided as well Video tutorial http www atlasti com video article creating uotations html Types of Quotations In accordance with the six different types of PDs there are also six different types of quotations Text Quotations nly Irish immigrants who le and England s major Bt Russia and Eastern rk and housing conditionsA text qotation A textual quotation originates from an arbitrary sequence of selected characters Textual quotations represent for the computer a sequence of characters strings and can be of arbitrary size Sentences speech turns or paragraphs are often the basis for the length of textual quotations Only text offers enough syntactical clues to allow for searches for the occurrence of specific evidence that may support a concept Text also offers the option for automatic segmentatio
19. memos you can either output just a list of your memos the content of memos or the content including the linked objects PDF You can print out coded documents as you see them on the screen with the codes in the margin area This option will soon also be available for PDF and image files in a version higher than 6 2 23 You find it under Documents Output Print witH Marcin XML Generator x v The XML generator exports all information contained in an HU in XML format This universal open data format allows for a wide variety of possibilities for display processing and even integration of your data with external applications Click on the XML button in the main tool bar to explore the options Further detail is provided in the full manual and on our website http www atlasti com xml html XML Converter The XML Converter lists HUs saved in XML format and applies so called style sheets miniature programs written in XSLT to the XML files The user may edit the supplied style sheets or add new ones Just to mention a few outputs that you can create using the XML style sheets Anicely formatted code book Modern codes commented only A tag cloud for the elements in the HU HU tag cloud e A list of quotations sorted by documents Quotations List by Primary Documents The content of quotations sorted by codes Print Codes in Full Use version 1 style sheets in ATLAS ti v 5 x and version 2 style sheets in ATLAS
20. you would double click on the three families female age group Il and City New York Then you click on the AND operator twice Dira 0000000 Primary Doc Families v amp age group I 0 City New York 2 circulation local 5 age group II gender female A Scope of Query amp age group II 0 amp circulation local 5 2 circulation national 4 aa P 1 Badische Zeitung onlin ZEP 2 Badische Zeitung Schw amp P 3 Be i 4 Figure 48 Combining document families to set the scope 2 AILA3 U USEK MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS Super Families Just like Super Codes Super Families re calculate their members on demand 89 Super Families follow the same underlying logic as Super Codes cf Super Codes on page 84 They are constructed by combining families or already existing super families Their members are determined dynamically whenever you activate a Super Family Super families can be created based on primary document families code families and memo families For further detail see the full manual http manual atlasti com Co occurrence Tools The Co occurrence Explorer works on a different logic than the Query Tool In the Query Tool the user has to determine and select codes or code families and the appropriate operator The results are a list of quotations The Co occurrence Explorer by default looks for all codes
21. 5 Name Path Sie Type Name Path gt gt W Capital Ti C Users 6 Wi Seatleni C Users S W New Yor C Wsers S lt lt lt MUINVT The CiMeerele 4 Total size of 0 selected documents 0 Byte Total size of 16 bundled documents 6 85 MB plus size of HU 212 50 KB totals 7 06 MB Documents which cannot be bundled Report Name Path Conflict all documents will be bundled Figure 10 Creating a copy bundle file In the upper right section of the window you will see the list of all primary documents that can be bundled ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 39 To remove documents from the bundle double click on a document to move it to the left hand side Or select all documents to be removed and click on the button with the errors pointing to the left file name is the name of the HU The extension is acb for ATLAS ti Copy Bundle You can give the copy bundle file a different name e g adding the date or a version number to the project name After a short time a message pops up letting you know that the Copy Bundle file is ready Copy Bundle finished and saved Do NOT save the acb file in your project folder Save it to an external drive a network drive in the clouds anywhere it will be safe If you store both your project folder and the acb file on the same hard disk and it fails you Next you need to choose a location for your Copy Bundle
22. But we will stop here for now The feedback pane displays the query in infix notation as we would have entered it into a regular calculator reason released alibi OR reason released lack of evidence The results pane lists 10 quotations You can look at the quotations in the context of the document by clicking on a quotation in the list or you can create a report ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS Output of Query Results Viewing results in context 83 Make sure that the Query Tool does not completely obstruct the area where PDs are displayed F Click on a quotation in the results pane The quotation is highlighted in the primary document pane A AS Macnaghten io name him s a suspect in a memorandum of 2 rebruary 1894 However Macnaghten incorrectly described the barrister as a doctor and his age is incorrectly given as 41 he was 31 at the time of his death 8 C pne Inspector Frederick Abberline George Chapman o e O a ilii di Moe itt mi aman de Figure 40 Viewing results in context avalit l X reason released alibi Creating a Report B E najan 2 um om San n sow fons 4 amp murders canonical five 4 6 murders_more less than five 5 28 murders potentially attributed _ S REASON RELEASED 0 0 X reason released alibi 7 0 amp reason released alive long afte Y reason released does not fit ch ES
23. F Select the nodes to be excluded from the view option Delete View or press Ctrl Del on the keyboard If you only want to exclude a single d node you may also choose this option from the node s context menu represent The From the Network Editor s main menu choose Noprs Remove Nobrs FROM however does To delete nodes from a Network View F Select the nodes to be deleted permanently from your HU From the Network Editor s main menu choose Nobes Detete Nope Confirm the deletion process as it is a critical action Deleting a node from a network view means that you permanently delete this object from your HU This can be useful when you have been adding new objects to a network view for exploratory purposes Use this option with care For this operation no undo option is available The only way to undo a false deletion is to close the HU without saving it and to open the most recent version or backup If you only want to exclude nodes from a Network View do not select Derete Nope from the node s context menu or Derete Entities from the main menu Select the Remove From View option ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Hold down the Ctrl key to suppress the import of quotations Import neighbors can be undone Shortcut Ctrl Shift Z 111 Simple analytic functions Import Node Neighbors This method imports all direct neighbors of the selected nodes into the Network View This option
24. FoLoer You can easily access this folder from within ATLAS ti via the menu option Extras ExPLORER User System Foiprn The time interval and the storage location of the auto recovery file can be set in the preference window Backup of file The Backup or HPR6 file is created when actively saving an HU via Fite Save or with a click on the floppy disk symbol The previously saved HU will then be saved as a backup of file and stored in the same folder as your HU As there is no Unbo function in ATLAS ti or only a very limited one so saving frequently is a good idea When opening an HU file be careful not to open the backup of file Because of the naming convention the backup of file might well be displayed above the actual HU file as its name begins with the letter B If you open the backup of project name hpr6 file work on it and save it the program creates a file named backup of backup of project name hpr6 This is undesirable because apart from the silly name you re working on an older version of your project and wondering why something is missing As a ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 37 safeguard double check the project name in the title bar after opening it or always open ATLAS ti first The default setting is for ATLAS ti to open the most recently used project so you can be sure of working on your actual project instead of a backup of version Customizing HU b
25. Lef Rht O Right gt Left Up Dowi Down gt Up Forma Property Symen Asymmetric Transtve GL m The part of relation links objects not concepts of different abstractional level as does ISA Cad cancel The Relation Editor for maintaining the relation database and for creating and editing relations is described in a separate chapter in the full manual E Scene of the second murder Chapman in Hanbury Street Figure 63 Network view as node CD 79 Figure 64 Using modifier codes for case based network views Basic Network View Procedures Creating Network Views Two methods for creating Network Views are available The first one creates an empty Network View into which objects are imported in sequential steps The other method creates a Network View from a selected object and its neighbors To create a new Network View Select Networks New Network View from the HU editor s main menu or from the drop down list offered by the Network button in the main toolbar ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 106 Enter a name for the new Network View A Network Editor opens I Import nodes with any of the methods described in the section Nodes below To open a Network View on an Object A Network View for an object is created with a selected object and its neighbors Proceed as follows Open an Object Manager e g the Code Manager or the Object Explorer or righ cl
26. MANUAL APPENDIX Glossary 143 Authorship Authorship is essentially ownership Any item created while a user is logged in will be tagged with the name designated for that user By using filters it is possible to compare the work of different authors in the same project Some division of labor strategies will prevent tracing all work done by each person Authorship can be changed globally or on an object by object basis Auto Coding Tool If the text itself contains important key words the Auto Coding Tool scans the text and automatically assigns a pre selected code to matching text passages If so desired the process can be controlled by manual confirmation of each action Backup Use the copy bundle function to backup your entire project Tools Copy Bundle Create Bundle The copy bundle file is a compressed version of your entire project and saved as one file with the extension acb Atlas Copy Bundle If needed you can unpack the bundle to restore your project Tools Copy Bundle Install Bundle Codes Codes are used as classification devices at different levels of abstraction in order to create sets of related information units for the purpose of comparison Coding Analyzer The Coding Analyzer is helpful after merging HUs It tests for redundant codes i e codes used more than once for data segments that overlap or are embedded in one another Comments Everything can be commented in ATLAS ti Comments
27. Manager again If you followed the instructions correctly then all absolute path references are replaced with the entry lt HUPATH gt Origin a lt HUPATH gt 11_Jack the Ripper_letters rtf lt HUPATH gt 12_Victim_Mary_Ann_Nichols pdf gt lt HUPATH gt 11_Jack the Ripper story rtf sHUPATH22 Victim Annie Chapman pdf 4 lt HUPATH gt 2_Victim_Annie_Chapman_scene of the murder_1967 wmv SHUPATH2 Victim Elizabefpesiride Pm gn panna Figure 7 HUPATH entries in the column Origin in the Primary Document Manager Congratulations That was probably the biggest hurdle in terms of project management in ATLAS ti The project can now be moved to any location you simply have to move the entire folder Working in Teams When working in a team you can set up your project in the same way as recommended above What may be different is the location of the project folder depending on the nature of the project Basically there are two possibilities to store it on a server that each team member can access or if access to a server is not always possible team members can also store the project folder on their personal hard disks or external storage device The one folder setup is the optimal solution for all these scenarios In the following section only the technical aspects of data management are discussed such as the role and tasks of the project administrator and those of the team members In addition members of a team project n
28. VISTA and Windows 7 users CE 141 Live Update Settings m ves TREE 141 Glossary si T o MEE 143 Piper lee es 143 Auto Coding Tool 143 Backup 143 Codes 143 Coding Analyzer 5 s ete Ut ceo cain n de ee d LR I HR OR CERERI E DO CI E CH SED CETERAE NO 143 onu de 143 COOCCUTENCEIER PLONE Fins EE 144 Copy Bundle Ec T HEP i i Miel Hermeneutic Unit Hermeneutic Unit Edito i s itcr eret ette e re ea btc ede ei beu ttd ec n e deret e ua Adeo enne ceno iet aga ccs 145 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL Hermeneutic Unit Mee add HUME Generatori iran ETE Cink Managers iioa a da a rsdn E e ii dla eat Margin Area Network Editor dia Mise cad c Pratt to titanio HM CE Network View MaMa Be aU M Nodes Links amp Relations tate Object Calera ES A NON Object Managers 2s Primary Document insano ERRARE TTA ERR TARTE D CHUTE DER DREAM CIA DEREN aiii Primary Document Families Data Attribut s 2 t e rar E EE te HO EDGE cana iii aed A 147 Project Transfer ditte 148 Query Tool m Quotations 148 Relati n Editor 2 5 ric ttm cat tom c n e TERCERO TETTE NT SEDE HARE EE RI ec E Pena Cr Nr Pls b
29. and Non Directed Links Links are usually drawn as lines between the connected nodes in graphical presentations of networks Furthermore a link between two nodes may be directed or not A directed connection is drawn with an arrow With directed links source and target nodes must be distinguished The source node is where ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 101 the link starts and the target node is where it ends the destination to which the arrow points The terms connection and link are synonymous why suspected reason suspected fitting the profile amp name of suspect Cohen directed link transitive is associated with s murders canonical five non directed link symmetric asymmetric Figure 59 Examples of directed and non directed links Links are created either implicitly e g when coding a quotation the quotation is linked to a code or explicitly by the user The latter option is described in detail in this chapter Strictly speaking code quotation associations codings also form a network 132 a Ej 13 5 E 3 31 13 7 11 76 Figure 60 Code quotations links But you cannot name these links the code is simply associated with a quotation through the act of coding In a network view you can visualize these links In ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 102 ATLAS ti all unnamed links are referred to as weak links all named links are referred to as strong link
30. as compared to females who live in the country side You can also use PD families as filer to reduce other type of output like a frequency count for codes across a particular group of documents See the chapter Family Life in the full manual A quotation is a segment from a PD that is interesting or important to the user In textual documents a quotation is an arbitrary sequence of characters ranging from a single character a word a sentence or a paragraph up to the entire data file Free quotations resemble passages scribbled in the margin of a book Usually quotations are created by the researcher However if repetitive words or phrases are found in the text the Auto Coding feature can be used to automatically segment these quotations and assign a code to them When a quotation is created ATLAS ti automatically assigns an identifier to it This identifier is built from the index of the primary text to which it belongs and the first 30 letters note that a different length can be set via Preferences of the text segment e g 1 21 Therefore a more efficient fil The identifier is displayed in list windows and printouts For graphic audio and video segments the original file name of the PD is chosen as an identifier Although the creation of quotations is almost always part of a broader task like coding or writing memos free quotations can be created that indicate interesting parts in the primary data for which a mean
31. collar worker Management etc Families make effective user defined filters For example you can filter PDs to only view female respondents In the Query Tool PD families can be used to restrict the scope of the search For example you can ask for all quotations coded by Code A and Code B that occur in documents of white collar female respondents from location B The PD Family table function provides a convenient way to import and export variables see below for a detailed explanation ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 60 Code families can be used to loosely group codes that belong together Other than in Network Views where specific relationships between codes need to be defined in code families it is not necessary to specify the ways in which codes relate to each other Use memo families to sort filter and organize your memos Super Families Super Families are combination of other families including other Super Families You can build complex families incrementally from existing families using a set of powerful Boolean operators From a technical perspective Super Families function just like Super Codes see Super Codes on page 84 Common Procedures Although the handling of families and their members is identical their usage differs between types of families In the following the general aspects of and procedures for working with families are described Thereafter a description of specific characteris
32. construct concepts and theories based on relationships between codes data segments or memos This process sometimes uncovers other relations in the data that were not obvious before and still allows you the ability to instantly revert to your notes or primary data selection For more detail see the section The Conceptual Level in the full manual General Steps when Working with ATLAS ti The following sequence of steps is not mandatory but describes a common script Create a project an idea container meant to enclose your data all your findings codes memos and structures under a single name We call this a Hermeneutic Unit HU A more detailed explanation is provided below Next assign documents text graphic audio and video files and Google Earth as so called Primary Documents PDs to the HU The data files become the source material for your project s primary data and can be located anywhere on your computer or a network For ease of data management it is however recommend storing all data and the ATLAS ti project file the HU within one folder Readand select text passages or identify areas in an image or select segments on the time line of an audio or video file that are of further interest assign key words codes and write comments and memos that contain your thinking about the data We call this the Data Level working phase Compare data segments based on the codes you have assigned possib
33. in your mind This will guide you to create the code and PD families you need to construct your query For example You have interviewed 10 women and 10 men in two cities and want to compare location and gender regarding certain issues you have been asking about like their thoughts and feelings about nuclear power plants after the accident in Fukushima Japan in the spring of 2011 You have codes like fear worries belief in technology change of focus towards renewable energies no change indifference The Codes Primary Documents Table can provide an ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 96 overview of how often these codes have been applied to the various groups of documents see figure ref below beliefin change of fear worries technology focus nochange indifference TOTALS P1 female location A a 2 1 2 1 0 7 P2 female location A 0 1 1 a 1 0 4 P3 female location A 2 o 0 0 0 0 2 P4 female location A 0 0 1 0 0 m 2 P5 female location A 0 3 0 3 0 0 6 P6 male location A P7 male location A P8 male location A P9 male location A P10 male location A voorn ooo ornor oroon oro oro BON bM P11 female location B 0 1 o 1 1 2 5 P12 female location B 0 1 1 HI 0 sl 4 P13 female location B 0 1 0 o 2 m a P14 female location B 1 0 1 1 2 0 5 P15 female location B 0 o 0 0 0 3 3 P16 male location B 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 P17 male location B 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 P18 male location B o o 2 o o 2 4 P19 male locati
34. is also available from the node s context menu Importing direct neighbors allows you to construct a connected Network View step by step In a connected graph there is always a direct or indirect path between any two nodes To import neighbors of selected nodes F Select the node s whose neighbors are to be included in the Network View F Choose Nobes Import NricHsons from the menu This procedure imports neighbors of all types If a code with many quotations is selected this operation might fill the Network Editor with unwanted quotation nodes To suppress the import of quotations hold down the Crr key when issuing this command If you have mistakenly imported the wrong or too many node neighbors select Noprs Unpo Import NeicHeors from the menu or press the key combination Ctrl Shift Z Import Co occurring Codes For code nodes there is a special import feature that exploits the spatial relations of different codings A code co occurs with another if it has been used to code quotations that are in close proximity embedded overlapping or if two or more codes are applied to the same quotation The proximity of coding applied to a text can also be exploited via the Query Tool s co occurrence proximity operator However while the Query Tool yields quotations for explicitly specified codes the import function brings in only the codes To import co occurring codes F Select one or more codes in the Network Editor
35. lt HUPATH gt Beverly_116 rtf female Berlin 0 0 41 50 Figure 29 An Exported PD Family Table column header and content is explained ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WORKING WITH VARIABLES PRIMARY DOCUMENT FAMILIES 67 This data exchange format can also be used to conveniently assign a large number of PDs from generic lists Documents The PD sequence number Name The name of the PD Path The resolved path of the PD s data source i e the actual location of the data source at the time the table was exported Origin Contains the original path reference that was valid at the time the document was assigned to the HU May contain special paths e g lt HUPATH gt This attribute can only be handled intelligently when importing such a table with ATLAS ti Other applications may simply ignore it and use the path attribute instead All following columns Families Type of Variables Within ATLAS ti all families when interpreted as variables are dichotomous because an item may or may not belong to a specific family thus it encoded with either O or 1 applies or does not apply documents Name Berlin London New York Tokyo P1 Case8 F 1 0 0 0 P2 Case6 F 0 E 0 0 P3 Case10_F 0 0 1 0 P4 Casell F 0 0 0 1 P5 Case50_M 0 0 de 0 P6 Case2 F 0 0 0 1 P7 Case3 F 1 0 0 0 P8 Case4 F 0 0 0 1 P9 Case54 M 0 1 0 0 P10 Casel5 F 0 0 a 0 P11 Case20 F 0 0 0 1 P12 Case22 F 1 0 0 0 Figure 30 By default PD families are like dichotomous va
36. of a relation is changed e g line width color symbol these changes are propagated to all links using it ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Define your own epistemologica primitives The Network Editor lets you visually connect codes and other objects to create semantic networks or hypertext webs 104 PAIN consequence gt temporary relief strategy strategy da strategy A Reading a book Splint leg i Taking pills Figure 61 Four links using two relations strategy and consequence The Role of Relations It is useful to understand the role that relations play in the construction of a theory The concepts codes that are linked using relations represent aspects of the problem domain under investigation On the other hand the relations used to link these domain concepts are part of the methodology used to analyze the phenomena As important epistemological tools they constitute the main questions that guide the development of a model or a theory The Grounded Theory method of Glaser amp Strauss uses relations like is phenomenon is context of is consequence of is condition for is strategy for etc to relate concepts found during the data oriented open coding phase In the analysis of argumentation structures other relations are more suitable e g is evidence of is contradictory to warrants etc A medical expert attempting to capture d
37. og NN Unlinking a code Removing a coded segmerit e te dite te eese dede Writing comments for coded segments etre EE EE itn erri AATA iaria aa enel 52 Further coding options provided by the Code Manager sssssssssssssseeeeeneeeemeeemenmeeeneen narnia ca rennes 53 Creating a NeW Eso AD MMT seta 53 Renaming codes Coloring codes Deleting a code Merging CODES ET ROM Writing code definitions sts Coding other media types 2 edant etre t e etse I e S ett bte p UL Lp a rede Re RAE ar cen etie tient Goding a PDF Docutments eme eiaa aE a aede reato e uti p EEE aene ete diee o E eA Rr c A A ecl Ee dd Coding an Image Document Coding audio andWideO files 5 2 on tacet imet eene i epi i ade cid DR Ia ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL Step Create an audio or Video quotation iii rio d ed Pct Ed damian ee e DRE v AR 55 Step 2 Code an audio or video quotatior s sc oido cd ta rini a crea lese dna dele ba cta cnn Tr Seca der ede ee rbd 57 Reviewing audio and video quotations e Unlinking codes ceci c er e tacite eiecit ote utate e tania ariel abhi ri e olt c ha Cere ts cena Modifying the length of a video QUO Niasas et ctt ri Pr a rt La d t e n e a c naa debia 57 Resetting the filter f Describing video quotations to improve OUTPUTS i eee nen iinoa Da VANEK NEEE AEE EE enr enn in 58 Renaming video
38. or colons All terms preceding the underscore indicate the code category name the terms following the underscore constitute subcategories As category and subcategory names may contain more than one word an empty space cannot be used to separate the two levels of coding The symbols used here underscore colon have no syntactic function Additional subleveis may also O http www casebook org suspects cari feigenbaum html Feigenbaum Figure 86 Use the style sheet Modern codes to create a code book You can copy and paste this table from Internet Explorer into a MS Word document or other applications and if desired add some further formatting When exporting quotations from PDF documents you may have to correct the formatting in Word and delete unnecessary hard returns The original layout is of course lost as the table only contains plain text As mentioned above you can simply copy and paste the table s from the Explorer to a word processing program and edit them there ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL EXPORT amp IMPORT 130 Export amp Import SPSS Export This chapter provides an overview of procedures to export import data and structures between ATLAS ti and other software The export procedures introduced in this chapter are not always clearly distinguishable from the chapter Generating Output on page 124 While the output options are generally display and print oriented export of the HU or parts the
39. overview of all output options that are available within ATLAS ti In addition some general procedures common to most output functions are explained Overview ATLAS ti offers numerous options to create output and reports Most output is textual but numeric or graphical output is also available where applicable Network Editor Typical textual reports include sorted and filtered lists of objects like code memos families and quotations Comments can often be included when needed For textual primary documents a near what you see is what you get WYSIWYG output is available including the annotations populating the margin area Output options are available from the menus of the tools e g the HU Editor s menus the Object Manager s and Object Explorer s menus Some tools offer an output button either as the only option e g the Query Tool or in addition to the menus Code Manager The target of an output is not necessarily restricted to the printer Many of the text related report procedures allow output to be directed to a text editor the printer or a file Other kinds of output are not necessarily intended to be printed directly but are to be processed by other applications like the SPSS export option several Excel compatible outputs and HTML and XML export You can find those procedures in chapter Export amp Import on page 130 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL GENERATING OUTPUT 125 General Procedure Output Destin
40. pointer over the selected text The pointer changes its appearance Hold down the left mouse button and drag the selected text into the Network Editor Release the mouse button at the position you want the new node to be placed with its upper left corner A new node is created and displayed Via the Import Nodes dialog The Import Nodes window offers access to all available node types The list pane offers a context menu to select or deselect all displayed objects opens offering objects to be imported Only objects that are not already Choose Nobes Import Nobes from the Network Editor s menu A window members of the present view are listed First select the type of node you want listed in the list pane from the node type drop down list ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 108 r 3 Import Nodes into LETTER NodeType Codes 5 Codes 365 date of Code Families amp historic Memo Families ES ne Network Views Z name o Primary Docs EE name o Primary Doc Families 3G name o Quotations amp name of suspect Kelly 1 1 EES name of suspect Kosmiski 8 2 3 name of victim 14 4 Figure 65 Import nodes window Select the objects to be imported into the Network View F Click Import The imported objects are placed along the upper left corner of the Network Editor You can either distribute them manually by moving each node with the
41. quotations and creating text OUtDUt ee nen ene ence anar nin 58 Changing between time and frame references zi Making use of quotation comments eire ci tr ada dt ent de dcn dd ed ee x et ee dati Lent d o c c e Ru E canna ipaa An A C ee PRM ee RA ee ee eer eee eae 59 Purpose of Creating and Working with FamilieS oonnnininnnnnninnnnnninnnnnnnnnanana ccoo 59 S per Familles c A ON 60 Common Procedures ecosistema terere Re Ens 60 AR IAEA M 60 Components of the Family Manager tete t ee e pee ee a trip la de si ee n MEA I en Pe ree cepe rit ELE 61 To Open a Family Manager 22 61 Creating Families 62 Adding Members 62 Removing Members 2 03 Using Families as Filters eee Access the Filter Options via the Main Menu Filter Items using the Family Manager aW Remoying Falnilles oh O NN DEUM Oo Rd e DUO ON EE ERN Annus 65 Working with Variables Primary Document Families ss 66 PD Family EEUU 66 Type of Manabi nia dial 67 Super families in PD Family Tables icine ana btt aii 68 Working with AMelTiOS edet a ai 70 Difference betweeri Memos and Codes ui here ip ee id ee e ee arr de E ias 70 How Memos and Comments Diff r 2 cort cn riscatto pitt rere i I i d dir nai durer eeepc n ite ees Eee ut 70 Memo Content vus AREETA o lo S
42. selection of a single file all associated material is then activated automatically The lowest level of an HU contains the Primary Documents followed closely by the quotations as selections of the Primary Documents On the next level codes refer to quotations Memos you meet them everywhere The lowest level of an HU contains the PDs followed closely by the quotations as selections of PDs Codes refer to quotations Memos you meet them everywhere ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 11 Hermenutic Unit Super codes Families Networks Codes Quotations Primary Documents Figure 1 The hierarchy of objects inside a Hermeneutic Unit An HU can become a highly connected entity a dense web of primary data associated memos and codes and interrelations between the codes and the data To find your way through this web ATLAS ti provides powerful browsing retrieval and editing tools Primary Documents PD or PDoc Primary Documents represent data sources These can be text image audio video or geographic materials that you wish to interpret The content of PDocs is usually stored in data files on your computer This content is turned into primary documents by assigning them to an HU The source files remain external to the HU It is however also possible to create internal text documents and to assign memos as a internal PD When using data files as external sources for your PDs then you need t
43. that co occur in the margin area combining the operators WITHIN ENCLOSES OVERLAPS OVERLAPPED BY and AND without the user having to select a a specific code code family or operator It is however possible to work with filters so that the tool is not always creating output for all data and all codes The Co occurrence Tools offer two output choices You can either view the results in form of a hierarchical tree or in form of a table Below you see an example for both How to open the Co occurrence Tools Select Tools Co occurrence Tools and then select either the tree or the table explorer The Co occurrence Tree Explorer Open the branches by clicking on the sign to see the the co occuring codes When running the tree explorer you only see the root objects when it opens on the first level and the associated quotations on the second level ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 90 The same option is available for primarv documents If vou expand the branch of Cooccurrence Explorer HU Jack the Ripper stage II 62 SX Codes 79 ce rimar y Docs 22 expand to the code level 9 28 date of murder ca X historic context XW name of suspect a g name of suspect Cohen expand to the quotation level i EX namapf suspect Cohen 3S tnan of suspect o name of suspect Cohen i E 11 33 David Cohen 1865 1889 was a Polish Jew whose inc 6 2962 6 3045 E2 11 163 David Cohen David Cohen 186
44. ti v 6 x ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 24 SPSS Export You can export your coded data as SPSS syntax file When executed in SPSS your quotations become cases and your codes and code families variables In addition further identifying information in form of variables is provided like the primary document number for each case start and end position and creation date These variables allow you to aggregate your data in SPSS if needed If you need a less detailed output see Code Primary Document Table The table provides an output that is already aggregated by primary documents Excel Export The frequency of codes across documents Codes Output Codes Primary Document Table the results of the Cooccurence Table Explorer Tools Cooccurence Tools and the word frequency count see Word Cruncher can be exported as Excel compatible file Graphic Files Network Views can be saved as bmp or emf files Open a network view and select Network Save as Graphic File HTML Generator Publishing online or just creating a printout from a project is available with the HTML generator The results can be viewed platform independent with any Web browser This option can be found under the Extras menu and is best suitable for exporting your entire project HTML preferences can be set under Extras Preferences HTML Preferences Miscellaneous Tools Object Crawler With the Object Crawler you can search all of the par
45. way deleting a log file is the one single activity that will cause permanent data loss apart from losing your HU file of course All other problems related to data management can generally be solved As for rule No 1 if setting up projects using the methods of data handling that will be implemented soon you no longer have to worry about log files as they are no longer visible and users cannot touch them Rule No 2 then also becomes obsolete How to edit By default all documents are loaded in write protected mode To enter edit mode Load a primary document that can be edited When loading such a document a second toolbar appears underneath the main toolbar Either select the main menu item Epit Document Access Enter Enit Mone or click on the edit button in the second toolbar All edit options in the second toolbar can now be used Try out the various options like enlarging or reducing the font size changing colors putting text into bold or italic letters using the highlighter etc To exit edit mode Click on the edit button in the second toolbar and select Save and Leave Edit Mode This is the moment when a log file is created If you edit a file multiple times more information is written into the already existing log files Thus there will always only be one log file per edited document Editing primary documents in team situations If you want to allow your team to edit primary documents you add an additiona
46. 0 0 On 1 September the dogs pan eason released alit As he was still impriso one gt sis keg ia However Sickert is not considere 0 SEHEN NE Critics note among other things Y reason released does not fit ch 4 m Figure 37 Clicking a Boolean Query Step 1 The term stack and feedback pane now display the code reason released alibi The results pane lists all quotations for this code Double click on the code reason released lack of evidence SxusGe m A LO Murdar 2 4 mr cn Codes reason released lack of evidence murderer motive 1 1 5 murderer serial killer 11 2 Z murderer various persons 4 0 Z murders canonical five 4 6 Z murders more less than five 5 Y amp murders potentially attributed Yi REASON RELEASED 0 0 amp reason released alibi 7 0 EC reason released alive long aftei XX reason released allegation unp EG reason released does not fit ch 3 88 A man named James Thomas Sa E3 1 Carl Feigenbaum E3 1 James Kelly lt m Figure 38 Clicking a Boolean Query Step 2 DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 82 With two operands on the term stack we can combine them with an appropriate operator The intention was to retrieve all quotations that contain information about an alibi or lack of evidence as reasons to release a suspect Click on the OR operator see left to combine the two expr
47. 4 0 Information regarding evidence stolen from police records 2il investigation_suspected by whom 37 0 Persons e g police investigators journalists historians or book authors who suspect ed a specific person to be Jack the Ripper 2 investigation_theories 15 0 Various theories about Jack the Ripper s identity motives occupation life and death Y investigation theory by M Fido 4 0 9 Idea memo 0 Me F Susanne Create a single idea memo Guesses hunches thoughts dreams Instead of writing a separate memo for every new idea collect all of your ideas in a single memo If you have a hunch pertaining to a speci research topic insert it into the appropriate research question memo The overall aim of this suggested strategy should be to stay on track a revisit important thoughts with ease and not to end up with an unmanageable number of memos with scattered bits and pieces of informa hi if to Figure 88 Example HTML output ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL EXPORT amp IMPORT 134 Table of Contents General Statistics Primary Documents Commented Codes Memos Network UNS Figure 89 Jumping to the network view section by clicking on the link in the table of contents Export and Import of Documents and their Attributes Please refer to PD Family Table on page 66 for details on how to bulk assign a large number of documents and associated families in Excel compatible CSV format
48. 5 1889 was a Polish J 6 2948 6 3053 Figure 49 Expanding to code and quotation level in the tree explorer for Primary Docs you can see which codes have been applied to this PD Further you can expand to the quotation level to look at the material coded there Let s take a look at a potential question that the Co occurrence Tree Explorer can answer ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 91 B8 Cooccurrence Explorer HU Jack the Ripper stage II 62 View w 1 D E G X X Codes 79 amp amp date of murder 5 8 historic context 9 96 name of suspect a name of suspect Cohen M name of suspect Feigenbaum co occuring XW name of suspect Kaminski codes amp T name of suspect Kosmiski o name of suspect Kaminski 38 investigation theories o name of suspect Kaminski 38 investigation theory by M Fido o name of suspect Kaminski 8 murderer description o name of suspect Kaminski amp i murderer motive o name of suspect Kaminski YE 13 10 3 The Ripper Revealed mp3 0 02 43 43 0 01 13 56 13 11 Description of motive 0 02 56 48 0 00 08 71 a g murderer_serial killer lt o gt name of suspect Kaminski amp murders potentially attributed to JR o name of suspect Kaminski TS reason released alive long after killing stopped o name of suspect Kaminski E T reason suspected could have been there o name of suspect Kaminski quotation
49. ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL EXPORT amp IMPORT 133 Generator ATLAS ti WIN 6 2 Build 27 Date 15 09 2011 19 32 59 Original project ATLAS ti needed jack the ripper stage ii 62 acb Copy Bundle format General Statistics Primary Documents Commented Codes Co Authors 0 Primary Texts 22 Quotations 456 Codes 79 Codings 523 Memos 21 Primary Document Families 14 Code Families 13 Memo Families O Network Views 3 Code Code Links 22 P 3 1_Jack the Ripper_Story rtf File name 1_Jack the Ripper story rtf media type richtext Comment Wikipedia entry on the legend of Jack the Ripper 99 quotations Codes 28 date of murder historic context name of suspect name of victim INVESTIGATION investigation_doubts investigation_suspected by whom JACK THE RIPPER Jack the Ripper_ legend modus operandi_cut throat modus operandi_differences modus operandi_mutilation modus operandi_others modus operandi_similarities murder_profiling murder_site murder_weapon murderer_serial killer murderer_various persons murders_canonical five murders_more less than five murders_potentially attributed to JR reason released lack of evidence reason suspected knew victim role of the media_legend building role of the media_sensationalizing victim Emma Elizabeth Smith victim Martha Tabram Commented Codes only ei investigation stolen evidence
50. ER HU For all these processes the log files of all edited documents are needed Editing in teams when working at different locations If editing is allowed you need to decide whether documents should only be edited at one central location by the project administrator or whether each team member has the right to edit a specific set of documents If the project administrator only is allowed to edit With this option it is best to edit documents after merging the various sub HUs For the next round of coding or work on the data it is not sufficient to send the new MASTER HU to each team member you need to send or upload the entire project folder containing the edited documents and the log files It is best for each team member to replace the entire project folder with the MASTER version If each team member is allowed to edit specific subsets of documents This option requires a strict agreement about who is allowed to edit which subgroup of documents If the same document is edited at two locations you will lose one version of it Let s assume that the project contains 40 rich text files and there are four team members The team has agreed on the following Coder A is allowed to edit PD 1 to PD 10 Coder B is allowed to edit PD 11 to PD 20 Coder C is allowed to edit PD 21 to PD 30 Coder C is also the project administrator ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 47 Coder D is allowed to edit PD 31 to PD 40 Wh
51. G 9 1 ACROSS 6 2 ACTING 6 I ACTIVE 6 2 ACTIVELY 8 1 ACTS 4 1 ADDED 5 1 Figure 35 Word Cruncher output when using the internal tool ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS Query Tool You need the Query Tool for queries using more than a single code 77 The Query Tool is used for retrieving quotations using the codes they were associated with during the process of coding This is different from a text search To search for occurrences of text that match a specified pattern or string you have to use the search function or the Object Crawler see the full manual http manual atlasti com The simplest retrieval of this kind search for quotations with codes is what you frequently do with the Code Manager double clicking on a code retrieves all its quotations This may already be regarded as a query although it is a simple one The Query Tool is more complex in that it can be used to create and process queries that include combinations of codes A query is a search expression built from operands codes and code families and operators e g NOT AND OR etc that define the conditions that a quotation must meet to be retrieved e g all quotations coded with both codes A and B By selecting codes or code families and operators a query can be built incrementally which is instantaneously evaluated and displayed as a list of quotations This incremental building of complex search queries giv
52. If a single quotation is coded by two codes this would count as a single co occurrence The complications arise when we take overlapping quotations into account In such a case when each of the two quotations is coded by one of the codes this also counts as a single co occurrence However in the cell drop down list you will find both quotations In fact there are currently no means to discriminate between a single quotation s strong co occurrence and the weak case for two quotations in close proximity The drop down list will display an ordered list of all quotations for all co occurrence events for the pair of codes Take a look at figure 32 above Quotation 11 34 and quotation 11 35 the two codes for reasons suspected are embedded within the larger segment quotation 11 164 coded with name of the suspect Cohen This is shown by the quotation references and if you look at the quotation in the context of the data see figure 25 below The references indicate that the quotes are from a PDF document and can be found on page 7 Quotation 11 35 starts at character 1 and ends at character 196 Quotation 11 34 starts at character 941 and ends at character 1379 Quotation 11 164 starts at character 1 and and at character 1379 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 95 last End local has r j 36 name of suspect Cohen Yi reason suspected behavioral clues he Crimes Zohen was used at whose names the United
53. LAS ti 6 USER MANUAL GENERATING OUTPUT 128 3 KML Export HU to XML sl XML Converter Figure 84 Select the option Apply Style Sheet to make use of existing style sheets Select a style sheet from the list displayed Next you are asked which parts of the HU you want to convert to XML If you select a style sheet that only shows codes with comments or a list of objects then you do not have to include the full content of the primary documents 2 XML Generator Export Options Exporting quotation content can be very processor intensive This is needed only if you apply a style sheet that utilizes quotation content e g HU Tag Cloud Do not include Primary Documents Include Primary Documents and Quotations meta info only Also include Quotations contents as plain text Cancel Figure 85 XML export options An HTML file is generated as your output file A file dialog opens offering to store the file in the ATLAS ti XML folder For the file to be displayed properly including all colors and images as defined by the style sheet store the file at this location You can accept the suggested default name or enter a different one Then click the Save button The output is displayed in your web browser Internet Explorer by default results may vary in different browsers Example Code book The style sheet Modern Codes a report of codes with comments can be used to create a code bo
54. ONCEPTS Documents TOTAL 22 Nowofro ooon5o oouwunocneo 4 1 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 0 4 28 owonnsa 16 27 13 77 Team Tools User Administration Manage the ATLAS ti user database through the user administration tool This is a prerequisite for collaborative work but is also useful to individual users through personalizing the login or protecting an HU with a password User Management options can be found under the Extras menu See also the full manual the chapter on User Management Hermeneutic Unit Merger This tool merges different HUs A variety of options to control the merge strategy are offered You find this function under the Tools menu Further information is provided in the chapter Merging Hermeneutic Units in the full manual Coding Analyzer The Coding Analyzer is helpful after merging HUs It tests for redundant codes i e codes used more than once for data segments that overlap or are embedded in one another You find it under the Tools menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 23 Export RTF There are output options for each of the main objects in ATLAS ti Primary Documents Quotations Codes and Memos You find it under the respective menus You can output a list of primary documents along with their comments all or selected quotations with our without comments quotations by codes via the Codes Output menu a list of all codes code neighbors lists etc For
55. PD The drop down list and manager show a pale yellow color indicating that a filter is set Jack the Ripper sage 62 ATLASH cm Fie tat Documents Quotations Codes Memos Networks Viens Tools Eras Docs Windows Help T P E A 6 AD ESB p 7 2 victim Ano EZ Eigen murder location 1 0 A Instructions Creating a code hierarchy 0 In F Super 9 y P E P 7 2 Victim Annie Chapman scene of the murder 1967 wmv P7 2 Victim Annie Chapman scene of the murde E 2 E quouis manage HU Jk e LEE code Manager FH ck the Ripper stag T Quotations Edit Miscellaneous Output View Cole Edit Miscelancous Output View Name murder_location 1 0 3imurder witness 1 0 divictim age 1 0 3Xivictim economic situation 4 0 3ivictim last hours and death 1 0 Sivictim marriage children 2 0 Figure 22 Preparing the screen for coding a video file Currently the time line cannot be scrolled Thus the entire video needs to fit onto it Therefore the recommendation is to cut your audio or video files to a length of about 20 minutes Otherwise the visual presentation of the quotations becomes very tiny and difficult to set In version 7 ATLAS ti will offer a margin area as already available for most other data file formats Then the above described coding procedure can also be use for coding audio an
56. Quotation Manager Hyperlinks in the Margin Area Creating Hyperlinks uses Creating Hyperlinks inthe Quotation Mariager etit cadere e da d ere eaa El dn e d daa did 120 Defining New Hyperlink Relations comicidad did 121 Traversing Hyperlinks es To traverse hypertext links using the Margin area sssssssssssssssseeeseenenennnehnnnnene nene treten rentre nns 121 The In Place Method for audio and video hyperlinks ssssssssssssssseseeeneeeneeeenenene nennen 122 To display hyperlinked neighbors place iii rope ete ire Pee etis e dc e e Ra ia eds 122 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL Generating QuUtp ta NS 124 O A E EE 124 General Procedure ioii eret ai 125 Output Destinations ds fs Fus ire i Eure qr e arte 125 acere ms 125 Common Header 125 Sorts amp Filters ctc 126 Restricting Output to Select d Objects cet cente rc co de ne dnte Cen T HOT EI E E ER na Enna ec 126 Creating Reports with the XML Converter eene nne Eia anaidai 127 Working with Style Sheets speeds Example Code bOook ii e n t aede ette dtt E ete esee i espe e eT atin anes Export I DOR oii das to e tps pas Dra eg Urt o pala AA KL esi e RE S SBSSIEXDOFE cobi et Pech eee onec eS cob o Au e ue ote e ML O Export amp Import using XML Exporting and Importing Codes in XML Exporting Codes susss Imp
57. RKING WITH MEMOS 70 Working with Memos Possible uses for memos To take methodological notes As a bulletin board in team projects As a project planning device As a primary document To create code lists A comment is a part of another object a memo is an object by itself Writing memos is an important task in every phase of the qualitative analysis process The ideas captured in memos are often the pieces of a puzzle that are later put together in the phase of report writing Theory building often associated with building networks also can involve the use of memos Memos are explanatory and descriptive texts that may be associated with other objects like quotations codes or other memos Memos can also stand alone simply as part of an HU They can contain methodological notes they can be used as a bulletin board to exchange information between team members you can use them to write notes about the analytical process keeping a journal of to dos Memos may also serve as a repository for symbols text templates and embedded objects that you may want to insert into PDs or other memos Memos can also be assigned as primary documents if you want to code them Difference between Memos and Codes Code names are or should be succinct dense descriptors for concepts emerging during the stage of closely studying the data They often reduce complex findings to crisp placeholders and or theoretical
58. States dentity was time for syphilis hers believe that ng man coming e tendencies while his book The t behavioural clues he only one he Figure 55 Explaining the relation between frequency of cocccurence and number of quotations Thus there are three quotations but only two co occurrences that are counted for the frequency count Codes Primary Documents Cross Tabulation Even though a bit hidden a further analysis tool with an emphasis on quantitative output is the Codes Primary Documents Table You find this option under the menu Cobes Output The table is available as internal report within ATLAS ti in text format or can be exported to Excel The internal report displays all PDs as columns and the codes as rows The Excel table reverses the table codes are shown as columns and PDs as rows The table contains either a frequency count for each code per document or a word count of the coded segments per code and primary document When creating such a table it is useful to set code families and PD families as filters first Exporting a table that for instance contains 150 codes columns and 40 documents rows is not likely to provide useful information unless you want to use this table as input to a statistical package A useful application is a comparison across different groups of documents for a particular category of codes Thus you are likely to create such a table if you have a certain research question
59. accepted Now you can add members and write a preliminary comment describing the family The number of items in a family is displayed behind the family s name in parentheses Adding Members After a family is created adding members is often the next logical step However the assignment and removal of items can be done at any time during the life cycle of a family To add new items to a family Select a family If you have just created the family it is already selected F Select one or more items in the list pane on the right hand side Click the Add Items button to make the selected items members of the selected family If you want to add one item at a time you can simply double click an item n P13 3 The Ripper Revealed mp3 41 P14 Transcript The Ripper Revealed 0 P17 Victims location of murded m Figure 26 Adding members to a family Watch the member list being populated with the items you have just assigned Another way to add members is to drag them from an Object Manager the Object Explorer or the margin area into the member s pane ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 63 Removing Members Open the Family Manager for the relevant object type Select a family F Select one or more items in the list pane for members selected family The items are only deleted from this family and not from the Click the Remove Items button to remove
60. ackup options Select the main menu option under Extras Prererences GENERAL PREFERENCES Select the Storage tab Backup Options V Always create a backup copy when saving a HU Automatic backup Y Save auto recovery info every 20 minutes Automatic backup path Sie ay V Load automatic backups at system start Figure 9 Default settings for HU backups When you reduce the auto recovery interval to less than 20 minutes keep in mind that saving the HU in the background uses up computer resources If you experience problems with the auto recovery backup check the backup path and make sure you have sufficient space and rights to store files at this location Backup or Transfer of a Project via Copy Bundle The two backup options described above apply only to the HU If you want to back up your entire project ATLAS ti provides a copy bundle function When using the proposed HUPATH setup for your project a copy bundle file is more or less the same as a zip file of your project folder It is one single file that stores all project files in a compressed format It can also be used to transfer your project to a different location As it is just one file you can for instance attach it to an email When to create a copy bundle file We recommend that you create a copy bundle file after each work session as a backup Store this file at a safe location You can overwrite the file each time with a new version or keep two or
61. aptures the macrostructure of a text Cross references between text passages are very common even in conventional media like books just think of religious and juridical texts literature journals etc Footnotes and endnotes are another common deviation from the pure linearity of sequential text However in conventional media not much navigational support is provided for traversing between the pieces of data that reference each other Computer related hypertext applications include for example online help systems that display operational information in suitable small chunks compared to lengthy printed information but with a considerable amount of linkage to other pieces of information A well known hypermedia structure is the World Wide Web with its textual graphical and other multimedia information distributed world wide Benefits of Hypertext What are the advantages of direct connections between text segments compared to the traditional procedures of qualitative text analysis What codes cannot do Maybe we should ask a different question first How can you express that statement X in text A contradicts statement Y in text B or how can you retrieve all contradictory statements of a specific utterance if all you have is codes and their associations with the data The code amp retrieve paradigm which is so prevalent for many systems supporting the qualitative researcher is not adequate for certain types of analysis In f
62. are not first class objects themselves They do not have a name they do not have their own list window nor do they have any property other ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 144 than the text they contain However they are an important attribute of the objects that they attached to Writing is one of the main activities when working with ATLAS ti Although the program can t tell you what to write it does support you in attaching your writings to the most appropriate location All objects have a slot that can be filled with a comment The first comment you write is typically a comment for the HU which appears in the HU browser and in output created with the HTML and XML generator But even links and relations can be commented Cooccurence Explorer The Cooccurence Explorer is more exploratory than the Query Tool Rather than determining the codes yourself you can ask ATLAS ti which codes happen to cooccur in the margin area The output can be viewed in form or a tree view or a table view The table view provides frequency of cooccurence and a correlation coefficient if appropriate At the same time you can access the data behind the numbers Copy Bundle The Copy Bundle function serves a dual purpose Portability to migrate a project to another location and data security a powerful backup and restore device You should exclusively use Copy Bundle to port your projects between computers To preserve the consistency o
63. ata sources i e the text image audio video or geographic materials that you wish to interpret The content of PDs is usually stored in data files on your computer Within ATLAS ti a primary document is created by assigning a data file to an HU You can however also create internal text documents and assign memos as a primary documents When using data files as sources for your PDs then you need to make sure that access to these sources is provided This means the source file has to remain at the referenced location and should not be renamed otherwise the HU cannot find it To avoid jeopardizing the integrity of your coding data sources should never be changed outside ATLAS ti In case you need to make changes to your data sources ATLAS ti offers an edit mode You can assign as many documents as needed for a given HU See Assigning and Handling Primary Documents in the full manual for further details Primary Document Families Data Attributes Families in ATLAS ti are a group of objects see entry Families Primary document families fulfill a special function as they can be regarded as quasi dichotomous variables You can group all female interviewees into a PD ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 148 family called female All male interviewees into a PD family called male You can do the same for different professions marital status education levels etc The classification is a O 1 classification 1 m
64. ations When creating textual output or when creating text based exports the following dialog is usually displayed in the course of the process You can send output to Send output to Editor Printer File File amp Run Figure 81 Common output options Editor The output will be displayed within a text editor This option is useful if modifications are needed before actually sending it to the printer or if you are unsure about the size of the result Printer If you select this option the output will be printed the printer dialog window opens where you may select the desired print options File If you select this option the output will be saved to a file a save file dialog opens File amp Run If you select the last option the file dialog window opens After it has been saved the file will be opened by the application registered for its extension e g a CSV or xls file will be opened in Excel Report Layout Common Header When creating textual reports a common header precedes the list of objects e g all codes or all quotations for a selected code The header includes information about the kind of report All current quotations the HU name and file path the current user the date and time of the creation of the report and the current filter if any ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL GENERATING OUTPUT 126 eo Report 6 quotation s for 1 code m File Edit Format Insert Help
65. b Groups You can specify the documents that are to be considered in a query By default the query s document universe is a PDs currently filtered in the HU Editor Clicking Scope opens another window that shows the PDs in the lower left pane and the PD families in the upper left As PD families can be looked at as nominal variables it is easy to preselect all interviews with male interviewees aged between twenty and thirty from small towns A restricted set of operators is offered note that only Boolean operators make sense here and can be used to construct scope selection queries in much the same way as the query itself A ATLAS ti Query Tool lala x A Scope of Query Families Query Le Js P Recale Undo _Redo Primary Doc Families Query c undo Redo v political program 7 a lang direct quote v 2 circulation local 5 Country Brazil V 3 reactions 4 v 2 circulation national 4 IE ES amp 3 titles 3 ui A Country Brazil 5 is 7 z T 9 neo nf dirart enaarh 5 B CountreGarman MM M n A 4l rr Codes Primary Docs L LANGUAGE 0 0 gt P 1 Badische Zeitung onlin M lang direct quote 25 1 GRP 2 Badische Zeitung Schw 36 lang emotional 3 0 P 3 Berliner Zeitung doc 4 E lang_evaluating 4 0 M EP 4 Berliner Zeitung Schwa p Mang formal 0 0 El
66. ble Activate the quotation that you want to modify e g with a click on the code word in the margin The currently activated quotation is displayed in the quotation drop down list To enlarge a segment Highlight an extended area by simply overwriting the existing one Then click on the button Revise Quotation Size in the vertical toolbar see left To decrease the size of a segment As you cannot select a segment within an already highlighted area you first need to erase the highlighting by clicking above or below it Select the smaller area that you want Then click on the button Revise Quotation Size in the vertical toolbar Just as you can erase a pencil mark in the margin of a paper document you can erase a code in the margin area on screen as well The digital equivalent is called unlinking It is mostly used when a segment is coded with more than one code To unlink a code right click on the code in the margin area and click on the Unuink option When you unlink a code from a segment that only has one code the bar remains in the margin If you want to erase both the code and the quotation you need to proceed as explained below ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 52 Removing a coded segment Mark the coded segment to be removed e g by clicking on the code in the margin Move your pointer over the highlighted quotation and select Derete from the context menu A message pops up asking yo
67. click on a primary document in the P Docs Manager and select the option Rename Renaming a primary document does not affect the data file names on the hard disk It is only an internal change reflected in the HU Thus the entries in the Name column in the P Docs Managers will differ from the entries in the column Origin when you change the name of a primary document Saving the Project and Controlling Project Setup Open the Primary Document Manager by clicking on the button P Docs Move the slider in the PDoc Manager over to the right so that you can see the column Origin As the the Hermeneutic Unit your ATLAS ti project file is not yet saved the column Origin shows a long absolute path reference for each document In my case ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 33 Leave the P Docs Manager at this position and proceed to save Select the main option File Save or Save As A window opens where you can specify the location of the HU file and its name The default location is the TextBank folder DO NOT save the Hermeneutic Unit there Navigate to your project folder The folder appears empty as only files of the type hpr6 are shown You can see this at the bottom of the window where there is a field for file types Enter a name for the Hermeneutic Unit your ATLAS ti project file Click on the Save button shown in the language of your Windows system Now take a look at the column Origin in the P Docs
68. ctim Elizabeth Stride my 3_investigation_location of murder E 3 investigation scene of the murder Chapmann 1967 1 3 investigation suspects i4 3 The Ripper Revealed Figure 5 One folder setup ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 32 Lo Project Folder Jack the Ripper de Case description 2 1 Jack the Ripper Story Introduction W 1 Jack the Ripper story w 1_Jack the Ripper_letters _ 1_Jack the Ripper_letters rtf Le Investigation w 3_investigation_location of murder B 3 investigation scene of the murder Chapmann 1967 713 investigation suspects i4 3 The Ripper Revealed de Victims D 2 Victim Annie Chapman 2 Victim Catherine Eddowes ps 2 Victim Elizabeth Stride 2 Victim Mary Ann Nichols x 2 Victim Mary Jane Kelly Figure 6 One folder setup with sub folders Open the the drop down field for P Docs and left click each document to find out whether you can load the documents on your computer Documents are assigned in alphabetical order as listed in the file manager In case the alphabetical order is not useful for your purposes or if you do not assign all the data at once you can always drag and drop a document to a different location It may not always be possible to know from the very beginning what might be a good analytical name or perhaps you have already created a project before reading these suggestions In that case you have the option to rename each primary document right
69. d while a Super Code is a stored ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 21 query thus provides an answer to a question in the best case that typically consists of several combined codes See the chapter on the Query Tool in the full manual The Cooccurence Explorer The Cooccurence Explorer is more exploratory than the Query Tool Rather than determining the codes yourself you can ask ATLAS ti which codes happen to co occur in the margin area The output can be viewed in form or a tree view or a table view CTE Cooccurence Table Explorer The CTE provides frequency of co occurrence and a a coefficient measuring the strength of the relation is calculated The such a coefficient is only appropriate for some type of data its display can be activated or deactivated It is always possible to access the data behind the frequency counts or coefficient You find this function under the Toots menu More information on how the coefficient in the CTE is calculated can be found here http www atlasti com 395 html In addition the tool is explained in the manual addendum V6 stuff Codes Primary Document Table The Codes Primary Document Table contains the frequency of codes across documents It can be exported as Excel compatible table Optional the table cells can also contain the word counts for the quotations per code across documents This option can be found under the Codes Output menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN C
70. d ATLAS INI the logbook of recent updates updates log the DEBUG LOG an ATLAS ti system report the PD mapping file PTPATH MAP the list of files in the ATLAS ti program folder C Program Files 86 Scientific Software ATLASti Program the user system folder Ca Users Susanne AppDatalRoamingiScientific Software ATLASti and the ATLASti root folder C Program Files x86 Scientific Software ATLASti Figure 92 This message informs about about the files included in the bundle ATLAS ti launches your default email client and creates a new message addressed to an ATLAS ti support address The report file Report name yyyy mm dd AtlRep should already be attached to the mail automatically In cases where it isn t please attach it manually its exact location is indicated in the on screen message The body of the message displays further instructions Add a description of your problem in the mail body If possible name any circumstances under which the problem occurred ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 141 Make sure you have an active Internet connection Send the mail Our support team will usually respond in less than 24 hours Service Packs amp Patches Live Update Program updates patches and service packs are regularly available to update your installation The program downloads and installs these service packs automatically Provided you have administrative rights to your computer not
71. d PD families Relations ATLAS ti allows you to establish named links to more clearly express the nature of the relationships between concepts With named links you may express a sentence like a broken leg causes pain by two nodes the source node broken leg and the target node pain connected with a named link causes or is cause of A default set of The name of a link is displayed in the Network Editor as a label attached to the relations is link midway between the two connected nodes Six pre set relations or link provided You types are available in ATLAS ti These standard relations can be substituted may define your modified or supplemented by user defined relations The default relations are ong listed in the table below C1 and C2 are source and target nodes respectively Label 1 Label 2 widh color Formal Attribute Layout Direction C1 is part of C2 0 G 1 Black Transitive a ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 103 Crome o pa mene Relations are like styles in a word processor Changing the style will change all occurrences of its usage in this case the links Some of these characteristics directly affect the display of links while others affect processing e g search routines automatic layout A link between concepts is displayed in a Network Editor by a line with the relation s label You can choose from three different labels label 1 label 2 and the na
72. d nodes from the original code ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Hypertext 114 A network with text or other media as nodes is often referred to as a hypertext The original sequential text is de linearized broken down into pieces that are then reconnected making it possible to traverse from one piece of data to another piece of data regardless of their original positions The procedures described so far have focused on the creation of code networks Direct linking of data segments quotations to other data segments offers similar flexibility in choosing and defining relations Almost all of the editing functions described for code networks can also be used when connecting two or more quotations Code code and quote quote links are the only types of network connections that allow you to assign a name to the connection that appears on the line or arrow that runs between the objects Representing the Rhetoric of Text While a code offers fast access to sets of data segments it defines only a simple relation between them namely equivalence Hyperlinks which directly relate data segments express more differentiated relationships between quotations contradiction support illustration etc No code is needed to connect quotation Q1 with one that it contradicts Q2 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Today s largest hypertext system the World Wide Web 115 Figure 68 Hypertext c
73. d video files To create a quotation move the cursor to a start position on the time line Click the button Mark selection Start Position the cursor at the end point of the quotation Click on the Mark selection End button Then click on the Create Quotation button ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES Coding A Create Link Source Rename Show Links A o Edit Comment eZ Open Network View X Delete Speak Open MediaControl Ctrl RB 57 ie Chapman scene of the murder_1967 wmv 0 01 04 98 lenght of quotation on time line 0 00 10 23 0 00 15 87 0 00 05 64 click to create quotation click to set start position click to set end position Figure 23 Creating a video quotation A new quotation is listed in the Quotation Manager The default name for audio and video quotations is the document name Each quotation can however be renamed Step 2 Code an audio or video quotation To code the video quotation drag and drop a code from the Code Manager onto the quotation in the Quotation Manager or vice versa You can also right click on the quotation in the Quotation Manager and select other coding options from the context menu When applying a code the quotation count behind the code name increases by one This is all you can see as there is no margin area yet Reviewing audio and video quotations You can review video quotations via the Quotation Manager or after retriev
74. der reliability for data coded in ATLAS ti you can use the web based tool CAT to calculate Cohen s kappa and Cronbach s a alpha See the full manual for further detail http manual atlasti com ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 75 The Word Cruncher This feature offers word crunching capabilities for a simple quantitative content analysis It creates a list of word frequency counts for the selected or all currently filtered textual PDs A stop list and a list of ignorable characters can be used to control the analysis Creating a Word Frequency Report From the main menu select Documents Toots Woro Cruncher or click the main toolbar s Word Cruncher button A property dialog opens offering a number of options that affect the procedure r Word Cruncher Settings J Indude Selected PD only Uncheck to indude ALL current textual PDs Disabled if no PD is currently selected Y Use Built In Tool Uncheck to create an Excel file Y Use Stoplist Ic Users Susanne AppData Roaming Scientific Y Clean text before counting ignore QG 44 Yar lt gt 2 Ignore case Ga Ga 5 Figure 34 Setting properties to start a word frequency count You may specify a number of properties before starting the frequency count Include Selected PD only Select the scope of the count to be all textual documents or the selected one only
75. des only is copied to the clipboard in a variety of formats A textual description of the contained nodes a node synopsis reports Depending on the processing capabilities of the target application An Windows Enhanced Metafile for high quality graphics to be used in results may sometimes be less than optimal A bitmap file that has more accurate layout and fonts but less quality when printed In other applications Word PowerPoint etc a selection or all of these formats are offered via Paste SPECIAL Save Network View as Graphic File You can save your Network View as a graphic file either as a bitmap BMP or as a Windows Enhanced Meta file EMF You can insert this file into reports Word PowerPoint etc Choose Network Save as GRAPHICS FILE This function does not save the network as a reusable structure for import to other HUs Select all quotation nodes that should no longer be referenced by the original node In the above example number magic remains only linked to quotation 1 29 Magic 7 remains linked to quotations 1 2 1 3 and 1 4 All other quotations are linked to Magic 3 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 113 Select Links Cut Links from the menu or use the unlink button in the toolbar E Red rubber bands appear connecting the selected nodes with the mouse cursor Move the mouse pointer over code node that should not longer be linked with these quotations This unlinks all selecte
76. documents code families or network views Right click on a code and select Derete A message pops up These items are linked to code code name x quotations Continue with deletion Confirm by clicking YES An other message pops up asking you whether the linked quotations should also be deleted If you don t need the quotations any longer click the Yes button ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 54 Merging codes The Merge Codes function can be used to combine two or more codes with each other This is a common procedure when you begin to clean up your code list after initial coding or when you work in a team and merge sub projects Begin with the code whose name you want to keep Right click and select the Merce Cones option from the context menu A small window pops up listing all other available codes Select one or more codes from this list and click the OK button To select more than one code hold down the Ctrl key A window pops up telling you that the selected codes have been merged into the target code and that a comment leaving an audit trail of the merge process will only be entered if the codes already had a comment before merging Code Manager HU Children and happiness eSa x Codes Edit Miscellaneous Output View Ba 2e gt OT Bf o Name 3x focussing on the upside 1 0 E Happiness 41 0 reasons for deciding pro 2 0 g self delusion 1 0 T r
77. downloads atlasti com library Woolf 2007 03 13 pdf Video Tutorials e http www atlasti com video article coding basics html e http www atlasti com video article code management ii html e http www atlasti com video article the margin area part i html e http www atlasti com video article the margin area part ii html Code Reference test 1 1 0 10t disappoint NE drop down list ed the California for codes daria Shriver ical adversaries create an even omnia Well let symbol and label Figure 2 Codes in ATLAS ti The selected code word is written next to the quotation bar in the margin You can recognize codes by the yellow diamond symbol The entry in the drop down list in Figure 2 Codes in ATLAS ti reads test 1 1 0 The first number shows the frequency how often the code has been applied It gives you some information on the groundedness of a code i e how relevant this code is in the data The second number the density how many other codes this code is linked to Hence the code Test 1 has been used only once so far and it is not yet linked to any other code To learn more about linking codes read the entry on the Network View function and take a look at the Quick Tour ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS a Memos 18 Text Search Tool From simple string matching to sophisticated pattern match GREP and category search all is available in the T
78. duce such a table select Toots Co occurrence Toots Taste ExPLORER ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 92 3 Codes Co Occurrency Table Under Construction Wea ioq nipc o Winvestigation_susp investigation name of sus murder site murderer de murder profi reason suspe imvestigatic Yi name of suspect T murder site 26 0 Yi murderer descripti 2 murder profiling 1 murder site SH reason suspected murderer desc Sinvestigation theor purser profil XX name of victim 1 H reason suspected d reason suspected _ 99599 investigation 5 name of susp reason suspect um T investigation_suspe yi reason suspect T name of suspect g 9 spect T murder site 26 0 reason suspect d murderer_descripti date of murde Yd murder profiling 1 3 reason suspected T investigation theo irderec sens XX name of victim 1 Jack the Ripper 1 reason suspected murder_witnes Y reason suspected T reason suspected T date of murder 1 Z investigation_doub y i m 13 irreestigabion_c g Figure 51 Co occurrence Explorer Table View Using the default settings a c coefficient is immediately displayed You find more information on the c coefficient in the full manual http manual atlasti com n a The entry n a indicates that the pair of codes does not co occur anywhere in the data material not applicable
79. e If you see a pink box ATLAS ti has noticed that there are multiple HUs accessing the same file but they have different information for this document in terms of file size or date of last saving Unbundling this document would ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 41 mean that the other HUs could no longer access it It is possible to install such documents in Restore mode If a necessary path does not exist on the target computer it is usually created by ATLAS ti But there are situations when this cannot be done Then you see a red box This happens for instance when the reference of a document points to a network drive like an H or L or Z drive that does not exist on the target computer or if a user does not have access to a specific drive In these cases the path can be mapped Click on the button Mar Para Then another window opens On the left hand side enter the path that produces a conflict on the right hand side enter a path that exists on the target computer to use as location for installing the file Primary Document Path Map Editor Currently mapped paths Target path s unresolvable My files project KNT T C Wy files project KNT Remove Path Add Path Enter new path to map Enter target path for selected path From z My files project KNT To Select from a path used in current HU Select from all current target paths or Enter or browse for any existing path browse to sel
80. e under VISTA and Windows 7 you need to explicitly run ATLAS ti as administrator in addition to being logged in with full administrator rights in Windows ATLAS ti checks for new service packs upon start up this requires an Internet connection If a new service pack is found you will be informed and asked to install it To run the software as administrator for VISTA and Windows 7 users Right click on the program icon instead of double clicking From the context menu select the option that appears in the language of your Windows system Run as ADMINISTRATOR generated by ATLAS ti pops up informing you that you run the software in A Windows message pops up that you need to confirm Next a message administrative mode Confirm this message as well Now you should have the necessary rights to install service packs and also to create new user accounts Live Update Settings You find the settings for the live update under the Herp menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 142 4 ATLAS ti Live Update Connection Settings Automatic update check on startup Prohibit checking for updates for all users V Check for updates on startup Proxy settings 9 Try direct connection ignore proxy server Automatic proxy detection D Use these proxy settings Host e g 192 168 0 140 or www ourproxy com E Enable proxy authentication Miscellaneous connection settings E Do not ping server
81. e SEA bn PERS 149 MinIScuo UN 149 Text Editor iy Text Search Tol ct RCP 149 Vatiablesis ats otc o KRAMER UEM UE 149 Word Cruncher gh AMECA toe te ie veto t esee i e e het N E T e d oq eese oe Hose Mee eode te bec rae Ute a 150 MIME GENERATOR O E NO 150 ME PR O A E AEA seacaesvese ves decidere tet can iU tes a e eed 150 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL INTRODUCTION Introduction This document provides a quick overview of the basic concepts underlying the work with ATLAS ti It is designed to provide the big picture and in doing so aims at helping you to quickly get your bearings when first starting out your work with the program Proper understanding of the central concepts and functions is key to avoiding some of the most common pitfalls We have therefore compiled those passages from the full manual that a introduce the major concepts and their corresponding functions such as codes quotations memos families etc b provide practical tips in how to approach your projects e g data and project management and c have added a comprehensive glossary that provides succinct overviews of all the central terms concepts and functions that you encounter in your work with ATLAS ti The full manual is available from http manual atlasti com We also recommend the following essential resources for more detailed informat
82. e e d e dn ds 26 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL Working with Internal Documents for smaller projects containing only text files 00 00 cele cece teeter teeta ete 27 The Process General Steps when Working with ATLAS ti sssssssssssseeeeeennennenmenenrennnnnennnnnenr enne 29 PROJECE Management hh caesar A PEDI PORA 31 AA a iaa eaa aa e aaa a aa a a a 31 Saving the Project and Controlling Project Setup cece ee ee ee teeter te sce tee scenes tet eee tessa tee cetneesesneetneeneeeeeeas 32 Wotkingin TEM eget e etit ie EO T e ilo de tr titanate ates Project administration Creating user ACCOUNTS ioci tutes Pm ote CIRC quc Me HE HE CU Deo PR Ge o ECKE Fe FEY Hee koe Pa tala AENA R LOR SINE N56 TEM Project File and Project Backup 2 x A Backup options Tor thes HU steep oaa eb irte d n dado Ern eR RR Cl cep ette taa aaa Tad Rd Auto recovery file ertet oe erae aberat b dee dee PRO REP e nO Ld det Roca dci rcd FAEERE ERE en RE dae adr Backup of file Customizing HU backup options Backup or Transfer of a Project via Copy Bundle ssssssssssssssssssssssseeseeeneeeneenneeeennreneenennree rennen nenne 37 When to cr ate a copy bundle file ce ce tee ree etd ete ee d be ea sedent de edi er th den EA e gs 37 Consider file size when creating copy bundle files ate ete mee t rh mta i a e t de n rr ee ba Re un 38 Potential problems when creating a bundle file
83. eans the document is part of a particular group O means it is not part of the group Following a special syntax you can also create PD families that can be imported or exported as variables with two or more characteristics based of an Excel table like Gender male and Gender female PD Families can be later used to restrict code based searches like Show me all data segments coded with attitude towards the environment but only for females who live in London as compared to females who live in the country side You can also use PD families as filer to reduce other type of output like a frequency count for codes across a particular group of documents Project Transfer In addition to using the the Copy Bundle function as backup you can also use it for project transfer Toots Copy Bunnie Create BunDte To unpack a project bundle at the target location select Toots Copy Bunpte INSTALL BUNDLE Query Tool For more complex search requests the Query Tool is at your disposal Here you can formulate search requests that are based on combinations of codes using one or a combination of 14 different operators Boolean semantic and proximity operators Quotations A quotation is a segment from a PD that is interesting or important to the user In textual documents a quotation is an arbitrary sequence of characters ranging from a single character a word a sentence or a paragraph up to the entire data file Free quotations rese
84. ect Cohen modus operandi similarities date of murder 13 0 historic context 4 0 name of suspect 28 0 name of suspect Feigen gt filter setting is shown in the status bar as well name of suspect Kamin Figure 27 Double clicking on a family in the family manager activates a filter If a family is activated as a filter it is displayed in bold letters in the Family Manager In the figure above the cody family Role of the media has been set as filter In addition the background color in the Object Manager and drop down list changes The active filter is also indicated in the filter field of the status bar in the Object Manager i killer active in the l f London England in entral News Agency by fictims throats were slit organs from three of the that the killer possessed tion had been growing n the killer because of the the murderer role of the media legend building nds surrounding the arch folklore and es have proposed only the filtered codes are displayed in the margin area Figure 28 Effect of a code filter in the margin area To take the filter out double click on the family again or select Extras Rese ALL Fitters from the main menu A third option is to double click on the filter field in the Object Manager while holding down the Ctrl key ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 65 Filters do not affect Network Views Even if you have set a filte
85. ect any path Click ADD PATH Click ADD PATH V Always use fallback paths Apply Apply amp Close Cancel amp Close Figure 13 Mapping a path if the location does not exist on the target computer A light green color indicates that the HU can access the document but not via its original path reference This happens when an absolute path reference was used in the first place At some point all documents were moved into the same folder as the HU file but the original path references were not changed to reflect the new setup see below Modifying the project setup If you do not optimize paths after changing the project setup to the HUPATH then ATLAS ti first follows the original path reference When it does not find the files there it checks the folder where the HU file is located as an alternative or fallback location for the files When light green boxes are displayed you can still unbundle the file But it is advisable to optimize the path references immediately after unbundling To optimize the path references select Documents Data Source MANAGEMENT Optimize Patas ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 42 Modifying An Existing Project Setup In case you had already set up your project before you read the instructions in this manual below you will find instructions on how to optimize your project setup Changing absolute path references to the optimal HUPATH If ATLAS ti i
86. ed of the number of its P Doc and a second number indicating when the quotation was created The ID 8 1 means that the quotation is from P Doc 8 and is the first one that was created in this document The reason for the chronological numbering is to do with the fact that you will not necessarily code a document from the first line to the last You will jump between passages and modify or delete some quotations during the coding process A linear numeration would have to be updated with every single quotation that is inserted which would take up unnecessary computation capacity Sorting the quotations by their start position for example offers a clear linear view of your quotes Recently an option was added to change the chronological numbering to a sequential order if need be Quotations MisctLLANEOUS Renumber ALL TO DocrLow This can for example be useful when coding open ended questions from survey data and you want to keep the cases in synch with the cases in the SPSS file Name The name shows the first 30 characters of a textual quotation This is the default setting which can be changed under Extras PrerereNces GENERAL Prererences Quotations based on image audio or video files show the file name The name of a quotation can be renamed This is a useful option for image audio and video quotations as we will see below Start and end positions The figures in brackets after the quotation name show the location start and end position
87. ed to be considered like working with user accounts and different sub HUs Teams can follow the instructions for the sample data set and then continue to read the additional information for team projects Working with Internal Documents for smaller projects containing only text files Using version 6 2 or higher it is possible to create internal documents This means you no longer have to worry about document references and document locations Your ATLAS ti project consists of a single data file the HU This project setup can be used for smaller projects where the data material is comprised of text documents only As this function was recently added to the software it is difficult to know yet how small is small A test project containing 40 interviews that amounted to a total size of 5 3 MB and 1800 pages of text outside ATLAS ti resulted in a coded HU file of 730k Thus working with 100 internal files should still be ok This approach is also a good option for working with sensitive data material When saving the HU the data material is highly compressed and therefore unreadable outside ATLAS ti In addition the HU can be password protected This should make unauthorized access reasonably difficult This is how it works you generate a new empty text document within ATLAS ti and then you copy and paste the contents that you want to analyze into it Open ATLAS ti and select the main menu option Documents Assicn New Text Docume
88. eed to discuss a number of further issues like how to develop the coding system how to divide the work how and when to inform the others about what one has done how to share the analysis etc ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 34 Project administration When working in a team it is best to nominate one person to be the project administrator Unless everyone s skill level is equal choose the person with the greatest knowledge of ATLAS ti and the highest degree of computer literacy The job of the administrator is to setup the project to distribute it to team members to provide instructions for team members and to collect the sub projects from time to time in order to merge them Creating user accounts If no other user account is created the super user is the default login and all new entries are stamped with the author name Super When working in a team it is clearly important to know who has done what so not all entries should be stamped Super Creating a user account and logging in with a personal user name allows tracing the steps of the various team members User accounts are best created by each individual team member and not by the project administrator Here is what you need to User information is stored in the program file directory Therefore in Vista and Windows 7 you need to start ATLAS ti as an administrator or you will not be able to store a newly created user account Close ATLAS ti a
89. en it is time to merge the various sub HUs Coder A sends the project admin his HU file project name coder A hpr6 and the rtf and log files for PD1 to PD10 Coder B sends the project administrator her HU file project name coder B hpr6 and the rtf and log files for PD11 to PD20 and Coder D sends the project administrator his HU file project name coder D hpr6 and the rtf and log files for PD 31 to PD40 The project adminstrator copies all four sub HUs into one folder along with all 40 rtf files and all 40 log files Then she opens each sub HU and synchronizes it ATLAS ti will recognize modification when merging HUs and goes through the synchronization process but we recommend to update each HU and check it yourself before beginning the merge process Best practice rules for editing primary documents Documents must be saved and assigned as text txt or as rich text rtf files Never open or modify a file that is assigned to an ATLAS ti project in Word or any other application outside ATLAS ti Never change or delete log files For teams Discuss the necessity of editing primary documents If editing is allowed discuss the two rules of editing with each team member and decide who is allowed to edit what ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 48 Basic Coding Techniques Open Coding In ATLAS ti you can often use a number of different routes to achieve the same result Once you see that you can use a
90. en reconnected making it possible to traverse from one piece of data to another piece of data regardless of their original positions see page 114 The word network is an ubiquitous and powerful metaphor found in many different fields of research and application Flow charts in project planning text graphs in hypertext systems cognitive models of memory and knowledge representation semantic networks are all networks that serve to represent complex information by intuitively accessible graphic means One of the most attractive properties of graphs is their intuitive graphical presentation mostly in form of two dimensional layouts of labeled nodes and links ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Networks are more than just graphics Gentes Em Guanine Gamane E E uoc tay 3 I Cors a Sf i E nee l te l 1345 4 lt t l E la n RO The Jack the Ripper legend MEROS The Jack the Ripper legend 0 An Susanne CLICK TO EDIT Jock the Ripper mas never cought and his inestty has remained a mystery for 120 years testing s whole AS international industry of Ripoljotogras been to tal uz who he really was Jack the Popper has ultimately his memo is to compe the pertinent historica developments that turned a alegan Figure 58 Example of an ATLAS ti network view In contrast with linear sequential representations e g text presentations of knowledge in net
91. ery similar in look and feel to normal codes with one important difference instead of hardwired connections to quotations Super Codes store a query to compute their virtual references whenever needed They automatically change their behavior during the course of theory building If you have a Super Code All about Magic with a query SUB Magic and later add another sub code White Magic all quotations to which the latter code refers are also retrieved by the unchanged query of All about Magic Super Codes can be clicked on in the code list like any other code and they will display their quotations in an identical way Normal codes are hard wired to their quotations A A a er Bs N M 416 X E X 4 22 E 1177 Figure 43 Codes are hard wired to their quotations ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 85 11 3 11 54 11 14 LA SK reason released alibi lack of evidence lt gt Caves A n E AZ NN Vus es EE 11 51 11 69 11 155 11 156 Figure 44 Super codes are linked to quoations via a query Super codes are displayed in the Code Manager just like regular codes and can be recognized either by a red text color or by their red symbol if images are switched on in the Views menu The list of quotations associated with the Super Code can be displayed with a double click just as for any other code Frequencies density are only indicated if you activated
92. es for hyperlinks To traverse hypertext links using the margin area F Switch on the margin area ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 122 If needed open up the properties context menu in the margin area and select Object Types HYPERLINKS Double click a hyperlink displayed in the margin The quotation to the left of the margin area is highlighted and a pop up window displays the hyperlink s contents double click to open hyperlinked quotation in pop up window L A Yu y Th JR 7 lt shown in GE map gt QU lt 2 4 It is my pleasure to escort you now back to the Lo 8 8 It is my pleasure to escort you now back to the London of 1888 and around the area where the five murders took ETO Figure 78 Traversing hyperlinks To display the hyperlink in context click into the pop up window Clicking outside the pop up window cancels the process When you double click on a multimedia hyperlink in the margin you do not see the usual info text popping up Instead the quotation is played directly without opening the Media Control window P7 2 Victim Annie Chap E 2 _ E ration 13 38 E lt expands gt 19 1 2 live link GE 15 5 hyperlinked video quotation Figure 79 Hyperlinked video quotation The In Place Method for audio and video hyperlinks You may travel directly from a highlighted Hyper quotation to its neighbors This is especially use
93. es you an exploratory approach toward even the most complex queries The Query Tool Window The Query Tool is launched by clicking the Query Tool button see left by choosing Copes Ourrur Query Toot or Toois Query Toor from the HU Editor s main menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 78 B A ATLAS ti Query Tool So Families Query Le jis JE P Recale undo _ g Investigation 6 ES Letter 6 4 Z3 Modus operandi 5 3 Murder 8 PO aad n term stack pane Codes Y date of murder 13 0 5 feedback pane Z historic context 4 0 3 E E name of suspect 28 0 3 Z name of suspect Cohen 6 6 Z name of suspect Feigenbaum 1 1 amp i name of suspect Kaminski 3 0 x output view save or Z name of suspect Kelly 1 0 J 2 pri nt reports Z name of suspect Kosmiski 8 2 ze St 3 name of victim 14 4 Z INVESTIGATION 4 0j amp investigation doubts 12 0 6 Z investigation stolen evidence 4 0 Y amp investigation suspected by whom amp investigation theories 15 0 amp investigation theory by M Fido 4 3 w ragr x result pane Figure 36 The Query Tool window xe The Query Tool has the following main components 1 The operator toolbar located near the left margin of the window 2 The code family pane in the upper left lists code fami
94. essions from the stack A ATLAS ti Query Tool CO co E msnm ames Query cis LP Recaic CUndo J Redo Investigation 6 OR reason released alibi reason released lack of el Letter 6 L3 K Modus operandi 5 PO Murdar 21 A 4 la lft aal 4 Codes t Yi murderer motive 1 1 36 murderer serial killer 11 2 wie murderer_various persons 4 0 Yi murders canonical five 4 6 Z murders more less than five 5 amp murders potentially attributed _ Create Super Code x amp F REASON RELEASED 0 0 id iie S i reason released alibi 7 0 3 88 A man nameggjames Thomas Sa reason released alive long afte 11 3 He was cleared of suspicion when 0 X reason released allegation unp 1 On 1 September the day after the 0 Wii reason released does not fit ch 1 As he was still imprisoned at the ti 0 S reason released lack of evident 1 However Sickert is not considere 0 VS reason released mix un of nan SS n m Adjacency Operator Settings Refresh Codes Scope L Heb Figure 39 Clicking a Boolean Query Step 3 The term stack now contains only one term OR reason released alibi reason released lack of evidence i e the combination of the two codes This term can be used as an operand to further extend the query e g to negate the expression or add some more codes to it
95. et If you want to create table based on all of your data for import into another software for further statistical analysis Select Copes Output Copes PrimarY DOcUMENTS TABLE gt QUOTATION COUNT ExceL or Woro count ExceL Select as output destination File or Fie amp Run if you want to view the table first Enter a name for the Excel file or accept the default name Wait for Excel or OpenOffice Calc to open in case you have chosen the File amp Run option Accept the request to convert the data If you accept the default name and create a second table make sure that a the previous table is no longer open in Excel otherwise you produce a protection violation error and b that you save the second table under a new name or otherwise you overwrite the first table Preparing tables to compare sub groups of data If you want to compare groups of data this means that you have to create PD families or Super PD families first see Creating Families on page 62 and the full manual for further detail on Super PD families In addition in most cases you probably only want to look at a specific aspect described by a certain group of codes This means you also have to set a code family as filter as well To set PD family as filter select Documents Filter Families gt To set a code family as filter select Codes Filter Families gt All filtered lists and managers appear in a pale yellow color so it is eas
96. ext Search Tool See the chapter on Special Tools in the full manual Word Cruncher The Word Cruncher counts all words in textual PDs The count can be limited to one PD only To clean up the count a stop list can be defined to exclude special symbols or words like and or the etc The result can be displayed in an Excel table See the chapter on Special Tools in the full manual Auto Coding Tool If the text itself contains important key words the Auto Coding Tool scans the text and automatically assigns a pre selected code to matching text passages If so desired the process can be controlled by manual confirmation of each action See the chapter on Special Tools in the full manual Memos capture your thoughts regarding the text and are an important device for creating theory A memo is similar to a code but usually contains longer passages of text A memo may stand alone or it may refer to quotations codes and other memos They can be grouped according to types method theoretical descriptive etc which is helpful in organizing and sorting them Memos may also be included as the objects of analysis by assigning them as PDs See the section on memo writing under Textual Level Basic Functions p 128 ff in the full manual Also read these library articles e http downloads atlasti com library Friese_ 2009 09 1 pdf e http downloads atlasti com library Friese 2008 12 8 pd
97. f ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS Families Li 19 Families are a way to form clusters of PDs codes and memos for easier handling of groups of codes memos and PDs Primary Document families can be regarded as attributes or variables Families can be combined using logical operators similar to codes and Super Codes For more detail see the chapter Family Life in the full manual Network Views Network Views are a bit more sophisticated than families They allow you to conceptualize the structure by connecting sets of similar elements together in a visual diagram With the aid of Network Views you can express relationships between codes quotations and memos PDs families and even Network Views can also be nodes in a network view Nodes Links amp Relations A node is any object that is displayed in a Network View You can change their look and move them around in the Network Editor Relations are link prototypes used to create a link between two codes or between two quotations An example is the is a ISA relation which is frequently used to link concepts of different abstraction level e g DOG isa MAMMAL Network View Manager The Network View Manager contains a list of all previously constructed and saved Network Views It can be used to create new Network Views to access or delete existing ones or to write and edit comments ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS Analys
98. f a project in regard to referenced files refrain from copying projects manually using Windows file procedures ALWAYS use Copy Bundle instead By inspecting the HU it finds and collects all files that make up the project the data files used as PDs and all associated auxiliary files It checks the accessibility of the data sources and provides feedback in problematic situations From all the project files it compiles a single compressed file which you can then easily safely store or transfer to another computer On the target computer installing a bundle distributes the HU the data source files and all associated files to appropriate location s Families Families are a way to form clusters of PDs codes and memos for easier handling of groups of codes memos and PDs Primary Document families can be regarded as attributes or variables For more detail see the chapter Family Life in the full manual Families can be combined using logical operators similar to codes and Super Codes ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 145 Family Manager Codes memos and PDs can be grouped within families The Family Manager is the tool with which you create modify and edit them Hermeneutic Unit The Hermeneutic Unit HU provides the data structure for each project in ATLAS ti Everything that is relevant to a particular project e g a research topic is part of the HU and resides in the electronic environment F
99. f you work with the recommend HUPATH setup then this will also be the location where all documents can be found after installing the bundle If you use sub folders for your documents all necessary sub folders will be created and the documents are unbundled there If you store the HU file and the documents at different locations and thus your project setup is based on absolute path references you can only freely select the location for the HU file The documents will be unbundled to the locations indicated by the path references stored in the HU Thus if you transfer a project from computer A to computer B ATLAS ti duplicates the necessary ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 40 folder structure so that the unbundled HU can load the documents Working with absolute path references is not a desirable project setup and should be avoided if possible 5 Install Bundle Se Choose Unbundle Strateay Migrate gt Restore HU Path C Users Susanne Organisation Desktop Desktop computer B 1_ w gt Select a location for the HU file TB Path C UserslSusanne Documents Scientific Software ATLASH TextBank 16 bundled documents 6 85 MB plus HU 212 50 KB totals 7 06 MB Name Target Location Use Size Log Modified Type i capital Times lt HUPATH gt yes E 4 53KB 25 10 200509 richtext NYT Schwarz HUPATH yes m 31 24KB 08 10 200321 graphic j Washington
100. fession location time intervals etc The scope function allows you to combine a code query with variables For instance you can ask for all quotations where you have applied code A and code B but only for females between the ages of 21 to 30 Operands Basic Operands Two sorts of basic or atomic operands may be used in a query Codes and code families A code represents a set of quotations while a code family yields the quotations of all the codes that its members have In other words a family is interpreted as its member codes connected by the Boolean operator OR Selecting a code family F1 which contains five codes C1 C5 is equivalent to the query C1 OR C2 OR C3 OR C4 OR C5 Complex Operands Operand does not only apply to basic descriptors An operand can be any expression that itself is used as an argument An expression A AND B may be used in a more complex query as an operand NOT A AND B A AND B OR C AND NOT D etc All types of operands can be freely mixed in a query using any of the operators described below Operators Three sets of operators are available They are located within the toolbar at the left edge of the Query Tool Boolean operators allow combinations of keywords according to set operations They are the most common operators used in information retrieval systems Semantic operators exploit the network structures that were built from the codes Proximity operators are used to analyze
101. file The default will lose all your work Potential problems when creating a bundle file If one or more documents cannot be bundled you will see a message in red in the report pane On the left hand side will be listed the reasons why a document cannot be included like a wrong file path a missing source file a wrong version of a source file or a missing log file If you want these files to be included close the copy bundle window and fix the problem s Installing an acb atlas copy bundle file The unbundling of a Copy Bunpte file is called installation in ATLAS ti Such an installation can only be done with ATLAS ti You can double click on an acb file in your file manager but first you need to tell your computer which application is to be associated with such a file If you don t know how to do that open ATLAS ti first and select Toots Corr Bunote Instat Bunbte The install copy bundle window opens There are two installation strategies to choose from Micrate AND Restore Choose Micrate if you want to transfer a project to another computer Older files are then replaced with newer files Choose Restore to restore a previous state for example if you have made a mistake if a document corrupt if you have lost your HU etc By selecting the restore option all files are overwritten Select one of the two installation strategies Next you need to select a location where you want the HU file to be stored I
102. ful for video and audio quotation where you do not have a margin area but can also be used for other media types To display hyperlinked neighbors in place Activate a quotation with a double click in the Quotation Manager ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 123 Move the mouse cursor into the highlighted area of the document and click the right mouse button From the context menu choose Show Links Steps one and two can be combined by pressing the Ctrl key while clicking the right mouse button P7 2 Victim Annie Chap E 2 Coding E Create Link Source TE Create Link Target Rename Unlink Codes References lt gt 7 1 Hanbury Street P Edit Comment QU lt change over time gt 6 21 The location of 29 Hanbury Street in 2008 X Open Network View QU 7 8 Comment about Hanbury Street in 1967 explains X Delete QU live link GE 15 3 Hanbury Street Site of second murder QU shown in GE map 16 3 Hanbury Street 2 murder o P 7 2 Victim Annie Chapman scene of the murder 1967 w er Open MediaControl f Figure 80 Checking for and jumping to hyperlinked quotations The quotation on the other end of the hyperlink is displayed in a pop up window To directly move to this quotation in context click into the pop up display or click outside the pop up to cancel ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL GENERATING OUTPUT 124 Generating Output This chapter provides an
103. hat your codes will magically appear where they are supposed to If you have modified a document outside ATLAS ti it is up to you to check all codings and adjust them manually if necessary But this is better than starting from scratch and recoding the entire document When setting up projects using the new data handling methods in versions later than 6 2 you can no longer accidentally edit an assigned file outside ATLAS ti in which case rule No 1 becomes obsolete Rule No 2 Never delete or modify the auxiliary log file To understand the second rule you need to understand what happens when a primary document is properly edited within ATLAS ti As soon as you save your changes an auxiliary file is created This auxiliary file has the same name as the original source file that was edited plus the file extension log It is stored within the same folder as the original Naming convention if file extensions are shown Original source file Washington Post rtf Auxiliary log file Washington Post rtf log The default setting of your file manager is set to hide commonly known file extensions This is an unfortunate setting as it can be helpful in a lot of contexts to be able to see the file extensions You can easily change this setting under the view options in your file manager In the event that the file extensions are not shown you will see the following file names Naming convention if file extensions are not shown Original s
104. he document what parts of the structure are to be displayed and what the display should look like This is commonly achieved with the help of so called style sheets Style sheets are a way of prescribing how the content of your XML source file should be rendered This can range from very simple layout commands show all elements of type X in red to quite complex programming logic create an entire website in which each element of type X displays its sub content on a single page along with navigation layout interactive elements ATLAS ti already comes with a number of such style sheets for you to use but also to explore and potentially to expand on by copying and extending their functionality for your specific purposes Once you understand the principle you will see what an enormously powerful and flexible tool has been put at your disposal with these little programs All style sheets are written in XSLT a special language designed for transforming XML content and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C See also http www atlasti com xml html Working with Style Sheets ATLAS ti offers a number of style sheets ready for you to use Below the general procedure is explained and then a few examples of the most commonly used style sheets and the resulting output is shown Click on the down arrow next to the XML button in the main toolbar and select Appty Style SHeet or select main menu option Toots XML AT
105. he query tool where the results are quotations you can use the two co ocurrence tools to find codes The tree explorer list all codes on the first level of the tree and if there are more codes that have been applied to the same or overlapping quotations then you can open the tree branches to see those codes If you open the tree further the associated quotations are shown The second tool the table explorer shows a cross tabulation of codes and within the cells a frequency count of how often each pair of codes co occurs The cells also provide access to the data behind them see page 89 Codes Primary Documents Table This table is a cross tabulation of codes by primary documents It shows how often a code has been applied to a document see page 95 ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 74 Super Codes are saved queries They can be reused e g after more coding has been done or after coding has been modified They can also be used as part of other query thus you can build complex queries step by step see page 84 Super Families Like super codes super families are saved queries based on families The purpose is to create families on an aggregate level For instance if you have your base families for age groups gender and location you can create super families that reflect a combination of these base families like all females from age group 1 living in city X see page 89 Intercoder Reliability To assess interco
106. hgsrt n Aces ganng M vemo part als Cars tures E shown by 11111313 o 725 The Pinchin Sweet murder prompted a tma of ateren in Se erie Reppe marderted in an Auw adon from Puck Puck downg the Ripper trom behind colin m a meor at ae f recons embodyng curreet 1 speculation ai to whom to might be a donor a denc woman a Jem band of poboweeman PM Cover page Puck 09 1859 jpg When linking quotations you have the option to create a chain a star or a combination of both Below a chain and star connection are illustrated 3 5 87 discusses Figure 70 A hyperlink chain When creating this chain the quotation 2 3 served as a source quotation and was linked to the target quotation 3 5 In order to continue the chain the target quotation 3 5 became the source quotation and was linked to the new target quotation 8 7 A hyperlink star connects many quotations from one source quotation ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION In list views linked quotations are prefixed with angle brackets The margin is an optimal work space for navigating hyperlinks 118 N contradicts live link GE Sa 10 5 8 6 15 4 m y XY a 11 154 11 61 Figure 71 A hyperlink start When creating a star there is one source quotation and multiple target quotations In the above example the source quotation is 8 6 which is linked to five target quotations via a number of different relations Hy
107. hich can be seen at the bottom left of the query tool window Double clicking on the PD Family Country Germany in turn yields the remaining 9 quotations 16 9 225 Further comparisons could be by circulation local versus national papers or by political orientation comparing papers that are more politically right or left oriented ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 88 For the results always look at the result pane of the query tool window The bottom pane of the Scope of Query window shows all quotations from the selected document group In mathematical terms the result pane in the query tool window shows the intersection between the code query and all quotations from a particular document group You can also combine a number of PD families or individual PDs using Boolean operators in the Scope of Query Window see Combining group of documents to restrict searchers below A scope is not stored as part of a Super Code s query specification When you process the query of a Super Code later the complete data base is queried by default Combining group of documents to restrict searchers A combination of document families like all females in age group II 31 40 from New York is clicked in the same way as you click a code query You first select two or more PD families and then you select one or more operaators Create a query F Click on the Scope button To create the above described subgroup
108. iagnostic knowledge would use e g is symptom of and is medication for You can create user defined relations in the relation editor that you can access via the main menu s Network menu For further detail see the full manual http manual atlasti com The Network Editor The Network Editor offers an intuitive and powerful method to create and manipulate network structures It favors a direct manipulation technique You can literally grab codes quotations memos or other objects using your cursor and move them around the screen as well as draw and cut links between them The following describes various methods available for creating and editing Network Views ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Figure 62 The Network Editor and its helpers The Network Editor has two helper windows NWE Toolbox and Alignment Tool that offer convenient support for some tasks investigation doubts Hm EE HA ei Network Nodes Links Layout Display Specials Help 4 Code Code Relations Editor 2 File Edi Relations Internal iD 8TF D Label Label2 Menu Width Type tebe wpetof ASSO sem R is associated 1 smete E BE tepo berichten ber 2 transitive Label 2 6 Bm spar G is part of 2 transitive Menu Text ispartof CAUSA gt N is cause of 1 vanstive x CONTRA lt gt A contradicts L symetc A Line Style 372 zl width 28 Osio 3 coor a Ae o ne i Preferred Layout Direction i
109. ick on an object in the margin area F Select one or more objects with a left mouse click In Object Managers you can click the network button For an object selected in the Object Explorer select Oren Network View from the context menu F A Network Editor opens with the selected object and its neighbors If multiple objects are selected their neighbors are not automatically included in the network view You can import their neighbors in a subsequent step The nodes are initially placed using the semantic layout procedure but can be rearranged manually More nodes can be added to this Network View using different techniques see Nodes on page 106 for details Each time a network is opened on a selected object a new Network View is created There is no need to save it as you can easily display it at any time following the steps above If you rearrange the nodes and want to preserve the new layout or if you add or remove nodes then you need to save it explicitly Network Save As Saved Network Views can be selected from the pick list or the Network View Manager Adding Nodes to a Network View There are several options available for including objects in a Network View Via Drag amp Drop From Object Managers the Object Explorer or the margin area You can add nodes by dragging objects from Object Managers the Network View Manager the Family Manager the margin or the Object Explorer into the Network Edito
110. ighlight a text passage and select a code from the Code Manager Hold down the left mouse button and drag the code over the windows splitter and drop it on the other side NS t focussing on the upside 1 0 side the coos nies sell Nelusion 1 0 ias dee cd iid will be painstakingly nthood which is why most of them how fitted for us by nature There aite Figure 18 Drag amp Drop coding O O Code Manager Huk Ovidren and happi E E Name T focussing on the upside 3i reasons for deciding pip 2 0 JJ ft self delusion 1 0 Whatever is highlighted gets coded There is no need to drop the code into the highlighted area It just has to be dropped somewhere on the left hand side as shown in Figure 18 Drag amp Drop coding Whatever is highlighted gets coded Replacing a code If you want to exchange a code for an already coded segment then the easiest way is also to use drag amp drop This time however you cannot drop the code just anywhere you have to drop it exactly on top of the one that you want to replace ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 51 Modifying the length of a quotation B Unlinking a code Modifying the length of a quotation is also quite a common procedure Maybe you discover that a chosen segment is too large or that you forgot something and need to extend the length of a quotation Both ways of modifying are possi
111. ike to define what that term means in qualitative research and then in ATLAS ti Coding Objectives From a methodological standpoint codes serve a variety of purposes They capture meaning in the data They also serve as handles for specific occurrences in the data that cannot be found by simple text based search techniques Codes are used as classification devices at different levels of abstraction in order to create sets of related information units for the purpose of comparison e g a concept like Coping Strategy Keep code names brief and succinct Use the comment pane for longer elaborations From a low level tool perspective codes are typically short pieces of text referencing other pieces of text graphical audio or video data Their purpose is to classify an often large number of textual or other data units ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 17 In the realm of information retrieval systems the terms index indexing or keyword are often used for what we call code or coding The length of a code should be restricted and should not be too verbose If textual annotations are what you want you should use quotation comments instead The technical aspects of coding are described under Textual Level Basic Functions p 116 ff in the full manual You find information on how to structure a code list in ATLAS ti in our library e http downloads atlasti com library Friese_ 2009 09 1 pdf e http
112. imary Document Families Data Attributes ooo oncnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnncnnncnicnn narran 12 Quotations cvs eee np E ers Quotations as Layers Quotation references Types of Quotations Text Quotations ET A A iate Eee oto REC O NN Audio and Video Quotations GoogleEarth Quotations Coding Objectives Code Reference Text Search Tool Word Cruncher Families acortan Nodes Links amp Relations Network View Manager Network Editor Relation Editor wis LINK MANA SONS REA NT Super Codes ss The Cooccurence Explorer Codes Primary Document Table Team Tools eti User Administration nocentem torpe eer i ne cds fr i a rnb ti ahs ttn e t ce a Ea HE eder OR H rmeneutic niE ES een tert Een Rer ES E rU HE deve DI ERE ale lea dena Hee eg SM EY Euer een Le Reece seas Coding Analyzer sse XML Generator SPSS Export Excel Export Graphic Files HTML Generator Miscellaneous TOO P glued T susc M coded Main Steps in Working WIETATEAS T auem o PU rated EDD RID del rds 26 Data and Project Management cb ete tede e bei ete er d e it ies eee de
113. ing them via their codes Double click on a code in the Code Manager OR Right click on the white background There you will find the option SHow Links Unlinking codes To unlink a code from a video quotation right click on the white background Then select the option Ununk Copes Modifying the length of a video quotation To modify a quotation boundary activate a quotation in the Quotation Manager Then reset either the start or end position You can use the right and left arrows on your keyboard to adjust the length of a quotation by frames To modify the length click Ctrl the Create Quotation button Resetting the filter To reset the set filter select the main menu option Extras Reset ALL FiLTERS ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 58 Describing video quotations to improve outputs As mentioned above the name of a video quote is its data file name If you want to add further information you have two options renaming the quotations and adding a comment Renaming video quotations and creating text output In the process of creating video quotations rename them so they can serve as titles for your video segments To do so right click on the quotation name in the Quotation Manager and select the Rename option If 30 characters are not enough for quotation names you can extend the number From the main menu select Extras PRererences GENERAL PREFERENCES GENERAL At the bottom right you wi
114. ing the operation of ATLAS ti are displayed and written to a special log file named ERROR LOG This text file is located in the user system directory The contents of this file can only be interpreted by the developers of the program and is of no use for others If you file a bug report you might be ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 140 asked to send a system report including this file to a specified support e mail address The error report contains the following The ERROR LOG file e The System Report which you can view via Extras System Report Display System Report The user s configuration file USER INI The ATLAS ti configuration file ATLAS INI The list of files in ATLAS ti s program folder The list of files in the user s system folder The information in the package contains technical information needed for the technical support personnel to analyze and respond to reported problems Except for the content of the ERROR LOG the system report and two INI files no other file content is transferred To send an error report from the main menu select Extras System REPORT CREATE AND Mail REPORT A message informs you that the report has been created and which files it includes Click OK ss f E Report Bundle Created T O The following items have been compiled into archive Report Susann 2011 09 16 AtlRep The ERROR LOGs the contents of the configuration files USER INI fonts xml an
115. ingful classification has not yet been found See The Textual Level Basic Functions in the full manual ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 13 Quotations as Layers Quotations are stored inside the HU independent of the document to which they belong Quotations need to be regarded as a transparent layer on top of a document Quotations are stored independently of the PD inside the HU Technically speaking a quotation consists of the identifier a number and a pair of coordinates that specify the beginning and end of the quotation The content of a PD file the data source is therefore not altered by the creation deletion or modification of quotations Read more on quotations in our library http downloads atlasti com library Maietta_2009 05_6 pdf Quotation references 8 1 The first choice that we must 9 9 rowd I will not disappoint arply polarized the California drop down list for vhose wife Maria Shriver quotation h out to political adversaries ake is the one that will 8t test 1 id Shall we rebuild our state y ourselves create an even bar marking the Pople of California Well let 4 lenghtofa quotation The bars in the margin mark the length of the quotation graphically The entry in the quotation field shows a textual reference for the quotation It consists of the following elements ID name start and end position ID The quotation ID is compos
116. ion additional help and for practical guidance in getting started Quick Tour http quicktour atlasti com Free Webinars http webinars atlasti com Video Tutorials http youtube atlasti com Knowledge Base http kb atlasti com Training Center http training atlasti com Workshops http workshops atlasti com Support Center http support atlasti com ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 10 Main Concepts The Hermeneutic Unit HU A n N59 The Hermeneutic Unit HU provides the data structure for each project in ATLAS ti The name was chosen to reflect the approach we have taken when building a support tool for data interpretation There was no intention to frighten potential users with this admittedly tongue twisting name Get acquainted with this concept If you understand the HU concept then you understand almost everything that is necessary to work with ATLAS ti And in spite of its impressive name it is simple and practical to use Everything that is relevant to a particular project e g a research topic is part of the HU and resides in the electronic environment For instance the Primary Documents representing the data sources the quotations the codes the conceptual linkages families networks and the memos etc are all part of one HU One obvious advantage of this bundling is that the user only has to deal with and think of one entity Activating an HU is the straightforward
117. is 20 Network Editor The Network Editor displays and offers all editing capability to construct and refine semantic networks In addition it allows the visual creation and traversal of hypertext structures Relation Editor When the built in relations that are used to connect objects in Network Views are not sufficient you can edit them or create new ones using the Relation Editor Link Managers The Link Managers provide an overview of all code code links and of all quotation quotation links you have created The full manual has further information on the network function under The Conceptual Level Networks starting on page 211 Video tutorials e http www atlasti com video article network building i html e http www atlasti com video article network building ii html e http www atlasti com video article network building iii html e http www atlasti com video article hyperlinks html Query Tool For more complex search requests the Query Tool is at your disposal Here you can formulate search requests that are based on combinations of codes using one or a combination of 14 different operators Boolean semantic and proximity operators See the chapter on Special Tools in the full manual Video Tutorial http www atlasti com video article the query tool html Super Codes A Super Code differs from a standard code A standard code is directly linked with the quotations to which it is associate
118. ist output option from the Copes Output menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 59 Family Life Just as codes describe sets of quotations families cluster Primary Documents Codes and Memos One important objective is to manage large amounts of objects by classifying them into subsets e g all theoretical codes all PDs from respondents of a certain age group or location all memos related to a theme etc Purpose of Creating and Working with Families In the following the role of families as variables super families and for controlling the HU merge procedure are introduced While families are used to classify a group of objects the objects they classify can be members of more than one family Unlike Network Views which can contain objects of different types as nodes families can only contain one type of object For example a code can never be a member of a memo family Partitioning objects into families reduces the number of chunks requiring the researcher s attention Families are often used for filtering and when formulating queries in the Query Tool see Creating a Query with the Query Tool on page 80 Example When conducting an interview study with respondents from various backgrounds and locations PD families can be created to classify the respondents into Female Male Location A Location B Location C Age Group 1 20 30 Age Group 2 31 40 Age Group 3 41 50 Blue collar worker White
119. it e g with a double click in the Code Manager If you start a new session an asterisk replaces the frequency count The reason for this is that a Super Code is dynamic and its density frequency count changes as soon as you modify any of the codes contained in the query of the Super Code For the same reason Super Codes are not displayed in the margin area There is the possibility to create a regular code from a Super Code Super Codes Super Codes can be used in code families Network Views and last but not can contain least as powerful operands in queries allowing you to incrementally build Super Codes complex queries can contain Creating Super Codes To create a Super Code you must have already constructed a query using the Query Tool which is displayed in the term stack Note that because Super Codes are intentional you can also create a valid and useful Super Code with an empty results list which might well change in a later stage of your analysis Click the Super Code button in the query tool between the feedback pane and the result pane ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 86 78 murders potentially attributed 3G REASON RELEASED 0 0 G reason released alibi 7 0 Xii reason released alive long afte X reason released allegation unp reason released does not fit cha reason released lack of eviden reason released mix up of nan Yi reason released never
120. l documents Do you want to link your data transcripts to the original audio and video sources Version 6 manual addendum Do you think you might have to move your project at some point See Project Maintenance p 282ff ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN STEPS IN WORKING WITH ATLAS TI 27 Should data be edited after it is assigned to ATLAS ti See the section on Editing primary documents in the full manual p 78ff Also http downloads atlasti com library Friese 2009 09 2 pdf Do you need data to be shared among team members For further information on team project management see the chapter on Collaboration p 262ff and Merging Hermeneutic Units p 289ff Where and how can you create project backups See Project Maintenance p 282ff The One Folder Setup For Single Users and Teams Storing all data files to be analyzed and the ATLAS ti project file in one folder is the easiest and most flexible way to set up a project Even when working with video files or other sizable data sets that you may store on an external hard disk or server you can still use this setup You just need to save the ATLAS ti project file the HU on the external disk or server as well This scenario also works well for team projects Each team member either stores the project folder with all of the data on his or her computer or the project folder is kept on a server In the team project case a few more issues ne
121. l layer of complexity to your project It is possible but it should be managed with care When your team accesses the project folder containing the ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 46 data and the HUs on a server then ATLAS ti controls the process Thus you do not need to do anything more than instruct each team member to leave the log files where they are and that they should not modify delete or move them If your team members are working at different locations then editing needs to be tightly controlled Editing in teams using a server based project setup Using such a setup means that every team member is working within his or her own HU but all are accessing the same data Let s assume Coder A discovers a typing error in P7 He enters edit mode to correct the error Coder B discovers the typo at about the same time and also wants to enter edit mode The software will tell her that she currently cannot enter edit mode as Coder A s computer is currently editing the document Half an hour later she tries again to edit P7 This time she sees a note ordering her to synchronize her HU She needs to accept this message in order to load P7 Then her HU file is synchronized This means that the quotation references in her HU are adapted to the changes made by Coder A All other users must synch their HU files as well This is done latest by the software while the project administrator is merging the various sub HUs into the MAST
122. l previously constructed and saved Network Views It can be used to create new Network Views to access or delete existing ones or to write and edit comments Nodes Links amp Relations A node is any object that is displayed in a Network View You can change their look and move them around in the Network Editor ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 147 Relations are link prototypes used to create a link between two codes or between two quotations An example is the is a ISA relation which is frequently used to link concepts of different abstraction level e g DOG lt isa gt MAMMAL Object Crawler With the Object Crawler you can search all of the parts of your project within ATLAS ti that contain text Searches are not restricted to just textual PDs codes memos quotations all families code code links hyper links and the HU can be searched In addition the scope of the search can be limited to certain fields Object Explorer The Object Explorer displays all the elements of an HU in a strictly hierarchical manner even if the structures are non hierarchical or even cyclic Object Managers Each main object list primary document quotation code memo can be displayed and managed in a separate window called Object Manager The Managers offer a variety of additional functions and are probably the most frequently used tools besides the HU Editor Primary Documents Primary Documents PDs represent d
123. lies to be used in queries 3 The codes pane below the code family pane contains all current codes set filters do apply 4 The term stack pane in the upper right displays the stack of all expressions entered in the current query If more than one entry is visible there are arguments still waiting to be used in the query The topmost entry is the current query 5 The current query is also displayed in the feedback pane directly below the term stack pane Here a different notation is used one that uses parentheses and resembles the calculator style of entering queries 6 The result of the query is displayed in the results list located in the lower right of the window Above the term stack pane are several buttons for manipulating the stack swapping S or duplicating terms P clearing the stack C etc Close to the results list are two buttons for removing unwanted hits and creating a report ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 79 In figure Figure 36 The Query Tool window you see three other buttons highlighted in green A super code is a saved query see Super Codes on page 84 for further detail You need the adjacency operator settings if you want to search for codes near to each other Behind the Scope button you find another important feature When you click on the Scope button a second window opens showing the PD families you have created These are often variables like age gender education pro
124. ll find the option List NAME SIZE FOR QUOTES Increase it to the desired number of characters 80 characters are probably enough for short titles This allows you to create a meaningful text output of coded video segments To create such an output select a code in the Code Manager Select the option OurPur QuorarioN List FOR SELECTED Cope s The output will show an overview of all the titles you have created for your video or audio segments Plus it provides the position within the audio or video file Changing between time and frame references P 7 2 Victim Annie Chapman scene of the murder_1967 wmv 0 01 04 98 LM Quotation gt lt sel Start gt Sel End gt lt Sel i Hp 0 00 07 29 Choose Time Format Milliseconds HH MM SS ms HH MM SS ms optimized Frames canes Figure 24 Changing the time format for video quotations If you prefer time rather then frame settings for quotation references right click the bottom right hand side of the time line and select Chance Time Formar Then a small window pops up showing you the various options available Making use of quotation comments In addition to using quotation names for titles you can add a description for each video quotation in the comment field When you output quotations and there is at least one comment ATLAS ti asks you whether comments should be included in the output As above you can use the Quotation L
125. lore them See the following online resources for examples on how to work with ATLAS ti http downloads atlasti com library Casasempere_2007 07_11 pdf http www qualitative research net index php fgs article viewArticle 1632 3149 http atlasmalaysia wordpress com 2010 09 01 howtolr ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 31 Project Management Project Setup Create a new folder somewhere on your computer server external drive Let s call it your ATLAS ti project folder Move a copy of all data you want to analyze into this new folder If you have lots of data you can create sub folders within the main folder where you store the data see Figure 5 One folder setup and Figure 6 One folder setup with sub folders below Open ATLAS ti Check the title bar If the last used HU is open and not a new one select the main menu option Fite CLose The text in the title bar should read New Hermeneutic Unit Select the main menu option Documents Assicn AssicN A file loader window opens Navigate to your project folder Select all documents in the folder To select all documents you can use the key combination Ctrl A Click on the open button it will appear in the language of your Windows system de Project Folder Jack the Ripper 1 Jackthe Ripper Story Introduction id 1_Jack the Ripper story i 1 Jack the Ripper letters 75 2 Victim Annie Chapman Y 2 Victim Catherine Eddowes p 2 Vi
126. ly assign more data files to the project Organize PDs codes and memos using Families see the chapter on Family Life in the full manual for further information ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN STEPS IN WORKING WITH ATLAS TI 30 Query the data based on your research questions utilizing the different tools ATLAS ti provides The key words to look for are simple retrieval complex code retrievals using the query tool simple or complex retrievals in combination with variables via the scope button the cooccurence explorer tree and table explorer the codes primary document table Excel and SPSS export of frequency counts for further statistical analysis Build semantic prepositional or terminological networks from the codes you have created These networks together with your codes and memos form the framework for emerging theory Look for the chapter Network Views in the full manual RTF Excel SPSS HTML Figure 4 The general process of working with ATLAS ti Finally compile a written report based on the memos you have written throughout the various phases of your project and the networks you have created and even publish your project as a World Wide Web document or an individual presentation using XML See HTML Export and Creating Reports with the XML Converter in the full manual For your convenience a number of style sheets are already provided Click on the XML button in the tool bar to exp
127. ly relevant concepts Beginners often stuff lengthy treatises into a code name blurring the distinction between codes comments and memos and thereby mistaking codes for their more appropriate siblings If you find yourself using more than a few words as code word consider using quotations or the code comment instead Like codes memos have names These names or titles are used for displaying memos in browsers and help to find specific memos Just like code names a memo s title should be short and concise Don t mix the name with the content How Memos and Comments Differ Memos are very similar to comments in that both are intended to hold lengthy texts as opposed to codes that are simply naming a concept Comments exclusively belong to one entity For example the PD comment is part of the primary document ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WORKING WITH MEMOS 71 Comments are not displayed in browsers separately from the object to which they are attached Memos can be associated with more than one object and have an additional type attribute e g theoretical methodological commentary etc They can also be free standing unlike comments Memo Content Memos may use plain text as well as Unicode or Rich Text The latter allows extended formatting and offers the option to insert pictures tables etc You can also include local file names like file notation The Memo Editor For displaying and editing memos a modified
128. mble passages scribbled in the margin of a book Usually quotations are created by the researcher However if repetitive words or phrases are found in the text the Auto Coding feature can be used to automatically segment these quotations and assign a code to them When a quotation is created ATLAS ti automatically assigns an identifier to it This identifier is built from the index of the primary text to which it belongs and the first 30 letters note that a different length can be set via Preferences of the text segment e g 1 21 Therefore a more efficient fil The identifier is displayed in list windows and printouts For graphic audio and video segments the original file name of the PD is chosen as an identifier Although the creation of quotations is almost always part of a broader task like coding or writing memos free quotations can be created that ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 149 indicate interesting parts in the primary data for which a meaningful classification has not yet been found Relation Editor When the built in relations that are used to connect objects in Network Views are not sufficient you can edit them or create new ones using the Relation Editor Super Code A Super Code differs from a standard code A standard code is directly linked with the quotations to which it is associated while a Super Code is a stored query Thus it provides an answer to a question in the best ca
129. me or enter a new file name and save the file to disk To export a list of selected codes Open the Code Manager and select one or more codes l Choose Export SeLecreo Copes XML from the Code Manager s MisceLLANEOUS menu In the output target dialog select Fite Confirm the default name or enter a new file name and save the file to disk Importing Codes When you import codes in XML format additional information like the date of creation and modification the author and code comments in plain text only are also imported This is how you do it Select Copes Miscettancous Import Copes XML from the main menu A file dialog window opens Select the XML file that you previously created and click the Oren button Code colors are not preserved in the XML file Thus if you import codes and their comments via the XML option you loose the coloring The HU to XML export and conversion utility allows an alternative and very powerful and flexible approach to creating web pages for users willing to learn how to program style sheets Using HTML Export and specifying the layout using the HTML generator on the other hand is simply a matter of clicking options without any need to learn HTML Potential reasons for creating HTML versions of Hermeneutic Units include ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL EXPORT amp IMPORT 132 Create a web publication Even intermediary results can be presented to other researchers without
130. me used for the menu when selecting a relation The formal attribute affects both the display and processing capabilities of a relation For example All asymmetric relations are symbolized in the Network Editor with an arrow pointing toward the target code Symmetric relations are displayed with an arrow at both ends A typical transitive relation is the is cause of relation if C1 is cause of C2 and C2 is cause of C3 it follows that C1 is cause of C3 Transitive relations also enable the semantic retrieval see the chapter on the query tool in the full manual The following properties are user definable he two labels and the menu text which can be used as alternative display options the width and color of the line linking two nodes whether a link is directed or non directed and the preferred layout direction The preferred layout direction affects the layout of a network when ATLAS ti automatically arranges the nodes Link vs Relation It is important to understand the difference between a relation or a link type and the link itself There is only one is part of relation but potentially many links using it In the Network View below the relation consequence is used only once while the relation strategy is used four times Another way to think of links and relations is to view links as instances of relations Links are well informed about the characteristics of relations which define their styles If a characteristic
131. mouse or you can place them automatically by mis using the option Layout Semantic Layout Linking Nodes The links between nodes in a network are real connections between the objects Therefore creating and removing links should not be regarded as solely cosmetic operations Links make permanent changes to the HU There are several ways to link nodes To link two nodes using the toolbar icon F Select a node in a network view and click on the Link button in the toolbar A red rupper band appears Move the cross that you see at the end of the line on top of another node and left click If you link two codes to each other or two quotations then a list of relations pops up Select one of the offered relations via a left click ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 109 Set of standard code code relations Set of standard quote quote relations iis associated with gt gt gt gt continued by is part of X contradicts gt Is cause of gt criticizes lt gt contradicts gt 1 discusses isa isa expands noname gt explains is property of l gt justifies s gt supports Figure 66 Linking two nodes The two nodes are now linked to each other In case of a first class link between two codes or between two quotations the relation name is displayed either within the link line above the line rotated or within a box Figure 67 Display options for link labels Yo
132. much effort These reports are readable without needing ATLAS ti on every system that has a web browser available Create a report A convenient way to create a printout of almost all objects contained in a Hermeneutic Unit using a web browser ATLAS ti s HTML code generation converts the Hermeneutic Unit currently being worked with into an HTML document The user can control the HTML creation entirely via the HTML Preferences dialog box Of course the generated code can be edited and refined with a plain text editor or specialized HTML tools if you are knowledgeable in HTML Exporting an HU as HTML Document l Specify all desired characteristics using the ATLAS ti HTML setup under Extras GeneraL Prererences HTML Prererences JB HTML Preferences Ex General Primary Docs Codes Memos Families Network Views Character encoding UTF 8 File extension for image links emf Short report disables all other controls Y Indude statistics V Create contents table Y Indude link to project V Indude HU comment Indude author s e Genet Figure 87 The HTML preference window F Select Extras Export ro HTML from the main menu Select Fite amp Run as the output destination to immediately open the generated output in a web browser Select Ebrror if you want to modify the source before storing it Below you see an example of how an ATLAS ti project in HTML format may look like
133. n as used by the Auto Coding procedure see the section on The Auto Coding Tool in the full manual Graphic Quotations graphic quotation inverted display The creation activation and display of graphical quotations has similarities with but also differs from their textual counterparts A graphical quotation is a rectangular region inside a graphical PD From its data structure it is identical to textual quotations since their main attributes are also the PD identifier and two coordinates that mark the beginning and end defining a rectangle through its upper left and lower right corner ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 15 Handling graphical quotations is analogous to marking text passages in a textual document See reating Graphical on page 158 PDF Quotations PDF quotations can be of a textual or of a graphical nature The quotation references for textual quotations indicate the page number and the start and end position on the basis of character counts For example 31 1537 31 1745 means that this quotation is from page 31 starting at character 1537 and ending at character 1745 The reference for coded images indicates the position of the quotation within the PDF file like 0422 0618 Read more about using PDF documents in ATLAS ti in our library http downloads atlasti com library Friese 2009 05 18 pdf Audio and Video Quotations El 2 o P 7 2 Victim Annie Chapman scene of th
134. nd reopen it by right clicking on the Software icon instead of left clicking Then choose the option Run as administrator A message will pop up asking you to allow this and then ATLAS ti informs you that you run the software with administrative credentials From the main menu select Extras User Evitor A window opens showing the three standard users Admin guest and super e To create a new account select Epit New User Four entry fields pop up one after the other asking you to enter an account name a password your last name and your first name You can enter a password or leave the field blank You are not asked for a password unless you specify this in the user ini file since password protecting the user name is only asked for on rare occasions Save the newly created user account by selecting Fie Save from the User Editor window A small window pops up informing you that the user base has been saved to disk Close the user editor Logging in From the main menu select Extras Loain Select your user account Notice that you are not required to enter a password and that the default setting is Automatic Login ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 35 ATLAS ti Login ATLAS ti User Account Susanne 1 4 Automatic Login ATLAS ti WIN 6 3 Build 0 Figure 8 Logging in using a personal user account After logging in you are greeted by the software ATLAS ti will
135. nt ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN STEPS IN WORKING WITH ATLAS TI 28 The Process Enter a name for the document into the window that opens The document is loaded in edit mode Copy the text you want to analyze and paste it into the primary document Protect the document by quitting edit mode You will find the edit mode button in the second toolbar below the main menu on the left hand side Click on the pen and select the option Save and Leave Edit Mode Proceed in the same way with all other documents that you want to analyze Save the HU file Make sure that you always create a backup copy of this file and store it at a safe location See Assigning and Handling Primary Documents in the full manual for further details and http downloads atlasti com library Friese 2009 09 2 pdf from our library Video tutorial http www atlasti com video article assigning documents html There are two principal modes of working with ATLAS ti the data level and the conceptual level The Data Level includes activities like segmentation of data files coding text image audio and video passages and writing comments and memos The Conceptual Level focuses on querying data and model building activities such as linking codes to networks in addition to writing some more comments and memos Data Level Work Data level research activities include segmenting the data that you have assigned to a project into quotations adding c
136. ny one of three options the main menu the context menu or the buttons on the toolbar you can use whichever suits you best You may have heard or read about open coding related to grounded theory In ATLAS ti open coding simply means creating a new code And this is how you do it Load a text documents and select a segment with the mouse and right click on the highlighted area Select the option Copinc Open Copine from the context menu OR Select Copes Copinc Oren Copine from the main menu OR Select the Oren Coping button from the vertical toolbar on the left hand side of the screen see left e have children in the first place If d many are less happy then those without bn t be as much of a struggle for us Because e little chubby cheeks Powdthav DER nu un Create Free Quotation hoosing parenthood it children bring happiness When g re offspring or thinking about their E Create Link Source 2s handsome boys or gorgeous loi fe Create Link Target hen the prospective parents know quite happily about parenthood wi de In Vivo Ctrl Shift V Speak highlighted Text X Cut r us by nature There are theories a CUN Paste PD Selection One possible explanation for this ccoramg p i bring happiness transmits itself much more ef that children bring misery The Figure 15 Selecting the Open Coding option via the context menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 49
137. o make sure that access to these sources is provided This means the source file has to remain at the referenced location and should not be renamed or moved otherwise the HU cannot find it To not endanger the integrity of your coding data sources should also not be changed outside of ATLAS ti ATLAS ti offers an edit mode in case you need to make changes to your data sources See below Data and Project Management ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 12 Primary Document Families Data Attributes Quotations o Families in ATLAS ti are a group of objects see the entry Families below Primary document families fulfill a special function as they can be regarded as quasi dichotomous variables You can group all female interviewees into a PD family called female All male interviewees into a PD family called male You can do the same for different professions marital status education levels etc The classification is a O 1 classification 1 means the document is part of a particular group O means it is not part of the group Following a special syntax you can also create PD families that can be imported or exported as variables with two or more characteristics based of an Excel table like Gender male and Gender female PD Families can be later used to restrict code based searches like Show me all data segments coded with attitude towards the environment but only for females who live in London
138. oi reason release lack of eviden pt att Create Super Code xG Id Name S 3 88 A man named James Thomas Sa 11 3 He was cleared of suspicion when 0 1 On 1 September the day after the 0 l As he was still imprisoned at the ti 0 To print all hits found by a query click the PRINTER button to the right of the results list sList List Include Comments Full Content Full Content No Meta Full Content Include Comments Figure 41 Output options Select one of the following report options e List Print a list of all quotations in a compact format showing only the quotation names List Inctupe Comments Same as List but includes the quotations comments if any e Fui Content Output the complete text of the quotations Fur Content No Mera Output the complete text of the quotations and specify the kind of information that is included in the output You may for example exclude the meta information for each quotation Fut Content Incuupe Comments Same as Fut Content but includes the quotations comments if any ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 84 Then choose whether the output should be displayed in a text editor saved to disk or printed see also Output Destinations on page 125 r Send output to 2g Figure 42 Select output destination Super Codes Super Codes are a convenient way to store queries Super Codes are v
139. oing on with ATLAS ti The Help Menu You can access a number of resources via the ATLAS ti Help menu Hei ATLAS ti Help Quick Tour gt Open WelcomeWiz Tip of the Day Check for Updates Now Live Update Settings Open Manual About ATLAS ti Open Manual Addendum A6 Stuff zi New Features in A6 2 Stuff ATLAS ti Web Site ATLAS ti Registration The ATLAS ti Forum The MailingList Archive Contact Support The Download Site Update History Visit FAQ Check Workshops The Coding Analysis Toolkit Check MSXML Figure 90 Accessing resources via the Help menu The options provided via the More Resources sub menu may change over time reflecting the up to date status on documentations available So it may be worthwhile to check this menu from time to time All options present links to internet web sites Thus you need to be online to access these resources Apart from the Coding Analyis Toolkit CAT all other options are self explanatory Therefore you find a brief introduction to CAT in the full manual http manual atlasti com Getting Support http support atlasti com The easiest way to contact the Support Center is via the main menu option Herp More Resources Contact Support Or access the Support Center directly via the above URL ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 138 From the categories provided select the appropriate option so your request can be processed as quick as possible Pricing and Licen
140. ok in table format It displays all codes including creation date and author information in the first column of the table and the code definitions that you have written in the comment fields of each code in the second column If you don t want date and author information displayed in the table you can modify the style sheet accordingly ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL GENERATING OUTPUT 129 Commented Codes No of commented Codes 58 Ao Note Main categories and subcategories were used within this list this is not a requirement you are obviously free to structure your own list to suit your needs and are separated by an underscore or a colon All terms preceding the underscore or colon indicate the code category name the terms following the symbol constitute subcategories As category and subcategory names may contain more than one word an empty space cannot be used to separate the two levels of coding The symbols used here underscore colon have no syntactic function Additional sublevels may also ASA Description of the time period economic situation living conditions etc during which the legendary Jack the Ripper murders occurred A http www casebook org suspects davidcohen htm Note This code list is structured as follows Main categories and subcategories were used within this list this is not a requirement you are obviously free to structure your own list to suit your needs and are separated by underscores
141. omments to respective passages note making annotating and coding selected text passages or data segments secondary materials annotations and memos to facilitate their later retrieval The act of comparing noteworthy segments leads to a creative conceptualization phase that involves higher level interpretive work and theory building ATLAS ti assists you in all of these tasks and provides a comprehensive overview of your work as well as rapid search retrieval and browsing functions Within ATLAS ti initial ideas often find expression through their assignment to a code or memo to which similar ideas or text selections also become assigned ATLAS ti provides the researcher with a highly effective means for quickly retrieving all data selections and notes relevant to one idea ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN STEPS IN WORKING WITH ATLAS TI 29 Read more detail in the section on the Data Level Basic Functions in the full manual Conceptual Level Work Beyond coding and simple data retrieval ATLAS ti allows you to query your data in lots of different ways combining complex code queries with variables exploring relationships between codes and to visualize your findings using the network tool ATLAS ti allows you to visually connect selected passages memos and codes into diagrams that graphically outline complex relations This feature virtually transforms your text based workspace into a graphical playground where you can
142. on B 1 1 o 1 0 1 4 P20 male location B 0 0 1 0 3 0 4 Figure 56 A possible outcome of creating Codes Primary Document tables for various PD families In order to create such a table you need four Super PD Families see Super Families on page 89 based on the four base families for gender and location location A location B male location A male location B le le and a code family for the codes fear worries belief in technology change of focus no change and indifference assuming that you have used a few more codes than just these seven Then you create four tables and copy them all into one spread sheet In most cases the totals are of highest interest and not the count for each individual PD But this could of course also be the case depending on your type of data and the kind of questions you are interested in Based on this first result you can aggregate the data further and could come up with the following comparisons ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 97 belief in change of fear worries technology focus nochange indifference Females location A 3 6 3 6 2 1 females location B d 3 2 3 3 7 Males location A 6 2 4 2 3 3 Males location B 1 3 5 3 6 4 Female 4 9 5 9 5 8 Male T s 9 5 z n Location A 9 8 u 8 5 4 Location B 2 6 Ju 6 9 11 Figure 57 Further aggregation of the data How to create a Codes Primary Documents Table Exporting the entire data s
143. or instance the Primary Documents representing the data sources the quotations the codes the conceptual linkages families networks and the memos etc are all part of one HU The lowest level of an HU contains the Primary Documents followed closely by the quotations as selections of the Primary Documents On the next level codes refer to quotations Memos you meet them everywhere Hermeneutic Unit Editor The HU Editor is the main window and usually the first thing you see after starting the system It lets you manage view and annotate primary documents PDs which are typically the starting point of your research see Main Workspace The HU Editor in the full manual Hermeneutic Unit Merger This tool merges different HUs A variety of options to control the merge strategy are offered See chapter Merging Hermeneutic Units in the full manual HTML Generator Publishing online or just creating a printout from a project is available with the HTML generator The results can be viewed platform independent with any Web browser Link Managers The Link Managers provide an overview of all code code links and of all quotation quotation links you have created ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 146 Margin Area To the right hand side of the PD area is the margin area Bars are used to indicate quotations Attached codes memos and hyperlinks are displayed next to the brackets The margin area is f
144. or may link segments within the same primary document intra textual links The natural boundary for hyperlinks like all structures in ATLAS ti is the Hermeneutic Unit The hypertext Network View to the right displays quotations in maximum verbosity set to full text Other node types can also be included in the Network View like the memo in the upper left corner ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION A hyperlink chain connects quotations sequentially m Essay Jack the Hipper ac the threat 10 putcart London Robert Haggard E 12418 is my pleasure ro escort you now hack to the London of 38828 and around the arva where the five rmsderz toot piace Mack the Mapper n a peudonym green to an unidentifiod serial ler active in the largely impovernhed Whitechapel arsa md adcernt Grincts of London Enyland mite 1465 The name ongmated m a letter sent to the London Cwntral News Agency by someone clamng to be the murderer Figure 69 A network of quotations General Procedures Star or Chain connections E 2 3 continued by shown in GE mep 117 pes Pit Videmy Cecte GE snapshot 108 P csms drcde GE enapshori 27 485 mane Quotaboss PAM my pianure tn escort you now back So Be Lo oer e GE map ER sopas Comment This quote trperiisked to an uctraton tram he agaziee Puck tom 1100 in Des satirical deprcman which Specular on De Appers deste a rather utsavory
145. ormal terms attaching codes to chunks of data creates named sets of segments with almost no internal structure This is not to say that partitioning lots of text segments into sets is not useful On the contrary classification leads to manageable amounts of segments that later can be ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Hypertext makes text text relations explicit 116 retrieved with the help of the attached code words But this may not be the only way you want to look at your data The concept of hypertext introduces explicit relations between passages These links have to be built manually and result from an intellectual effort The system cannot decide for you that segment x is in contradiction to segment y But after the work of establishing the links you can make semantically richer retrievals Show statements contrary to statement x Hypertext allows you to create different paths through the data you are analyzing For example you may create a timeline different from the strict sequence of the original text Graphical Hyperlink Maps ATLAS ti incorporates procedures for creating and browsing hypertext structures It allows for two or more quotations being connected using named relations Further you can create graphical maps using Network Views to make parts of your hyperspace accessible in a comfortable way Hyperlinks may connect quotations textual graphical multimedia across documents inter textual links
146. orting GOMES T HI HE dep Exporting an HU as HTML Document issssssssss ee ee enne Export and Import of Documents and their Attributes FREI p cte a 135 Useful Resources a a e dd e t o im dicet e 135 THEATEAS Website Et conca 135 CIC TOUR eA eh UE RIEN 135 Full Manual and How To DOCUMENES ccccccsssccssseccsseccssseccssecessscccssecesssecesseccessecesseeeesseccsssecesecesseccasesctsecesseeceeseceuetsnsaeeeees 135 Video tutorials efe hed et boc edo e oben cotes a eed aee o La MN ee Knowledge Base Social Media YouTube Facebook Twitter NGWSOOM T The Helpi Men E de Getting Support Frequently Asked Questions Malling Hist A G Troubleshooting Help withibata Managemient Problemts 5 uu orte en tee m tornei cn rnit na dr ndr dea Pe ine ta eu eec ata EREE 139 Documents carinobbe accessed eter e ertt eripere par n tete dno da nea er einig erai pu oda 139 Embedded Obje cts Carinot be Activated reise teintes eid s elect rt eri fa ie d ri ee e er noa 139 Cannot Enter Edit Mode for Primary Documents eerie aident iredi diea reda dra Dv dada ee nee deae 139 REPOMING ERI I IMEEM 139 Service Packs amp Patch s Live Update need da diain tet trt eint a dert tei sass ia rena ra a e de Eu 141 To run the software as administrator for
147. ource file Washington Post Auxiliary log file Washington Post rtf You can only see in the column type of your file manager that the first one is indeed the rich text document and the second one a text file The characters rtf are part of the file name and do not mark the file extension As they are just plain text log files are very small usually just a few k in size Log files contain information for the HU about how to adjust the codings according to the modifications that have been made Below you see an example of a log entry lt LOGSESSIONS gt LOGS SECS 1901 2 3243616859 ISODATE 2003 10 14T20 40 59 gt ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 45 lt TransformMod oldSel 1 10 1050 10 newSel 1 10 afterOldSel 1051010 beforeOldSel 1052 9 gt TransformMod oldSel 1 10 1 10 newSel 1 10 afterOldSel 2010 beforeOldSel 1052 9 gt TransformMod oldSel 1 10 1 10 newSel 1 10 afterOldSel 1 11 beforeOldSel 1052 9 gt lt LOGS gt As a user there is no need to understand the content of a log file or even to open it You just need to know that it is there and that it s best not to touch it If you delete a log file and it cannot be rescued from the recycle bin you have lost the coding for this document The only option that remains then is to disconnect the document from the HU newly assign and recode it By the
148. perlinks in the Quotation Manager All hyperlinked quotations can easily be recognized in the Quotation Manager All source quotations are marked with an opening angle bracket all target quotations with a closing bracket If a quotation is both source and target as the case when creating chains then both brackets are used as prefix erner Street 3 murder 346 397 16 2 Buck s Row 1 murder 103 152 lt gt 16 3 Hanbury Street 2 murder 84 135 itre Square 4 murder 350 404 16 5 Dorset Street 5 murder 136 190 gt 16 6 Victims circle GE snapshot 27 485 Figure 72 List of linked quotations Hyperlinks in the Margin Area When working with hyperlinks it is advisable to set the margin display options as follows ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 119 as prostitutes Most victims E UR VREE v Memos Escamilla Te somovil apa gaa lt Hyperlinks v Use Object Colors em 2d some officials at the ES I shown by video 7 5 4 Display Coordinates Code Families ler possessed anatomical id Use Short Names Memo Families arculation had been growing Set Font Network Views aduring notoriety on the ks and the failure of the None All Figure 73 Display of hyperlinks in the margin area To open this context menu right click on a blank space in the margin area Creating Hyperlinks ATLAS ti offers a variety of options for creating and traversing hyperte
149. r Drag amp drop gives you better control of the initial position of the imported nodes Open the Network View to which you want new objects imported Open the manager s for objects code list memo list etc that you want to import into a Network View F Select the node s you want to import into the Network View Drag the selected objects into the Network Editor ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION Text dragged from other applications becomes a memo Text dragged from the PD pane becomes a quotation 107 Drag selections of a primary text This method creates nodes from textual quotations or new selections of text Open the PD that contains the text that you want to import into a Network View F Make a selection within the PD or select an existing quotation Drag the selected text into the Network Editor placed A new node is created and displayed If a quotation did not yet exist Release the mouse button at the position you want the new node to be for the selection of text it will now be created Drag text from other applications This method allows you to drag text from drag amp drop compliant applications like Word into a Network Editor Text dragged from Word is converted into a new memo and displayed as a node Open the application from which you want to drag selections of text in to a Network Editor Mark the piece of text within the other application Move the mouse
150. r Network Views still display all their nodes Removing Families Open the Family Manager for the relevant object type F Select the family to be removed F Click the Delete button or select menu option Famiuies Detete Famiy Removing a family does not remove any of the contained items ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WORKING WITH VARIABLES PRIMARY DOCUMENT FAMILIES 66 Working with Variables Primary Document Families Along with sharing all the characteristics of code and memo families PD families have some additional characteristics PD families as PD Families can be used to define the scope of a query when used as global variables can be attributes supplementing codes For instance if the PD families female and used in queries age group 1 21 30 were assigned to a number of interviews one can then and SPSS jobs formulate queries like Show me all quotations from interviews with females between the ages 21 to 30 coded with coping or power For a step by step instruction see Restricting Code Queries to Sub Groups on page 87 In SPSS jobs PD families are a way to aggregate some of the data Use PD Family PD Family tables are an efficient means to create families and to assign PDs to tables to assign their respective families You can also use them to assign PDs and to generate PDs and variables in one step variables at the same time PD Family Table PD Family Tables can be exported or impo
151. r administration tool This is a prerequisite for collaborative work but is also useful to individual users through personalizing the login or protecting an HU with a password See User Management in the full manual ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL
152. rectangular graphical image instead of the actual text segment To select a string of text place the cursor directly to the left of the first letter To select a graphic segment draw a rectangle with your mouse Use any of the coding techniques described above e g open coding or coding via drag amp drop from the Code Manager When using drag amp drop coding you need to drag the code directly onto the marked PDF segment Coding an Image Document Load an image document and select a rectangular area Proceed to code it as has been described for text segments To change the display type right click on the image quotation and select the option SeLecrion DisPLaY Type INVERTED REA Figure 21 inverted display for quotations Coding audio and video files Coding audio and video files involves two steps First a quotation needs to be created and only then can you can link a code to it Step 1 Create an audio or video quotation Load an audio or video document ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 56 In addition to the Code Manager open the Quotation Manager Re size the two windows so they fit next to each other Move the time line to a convenient position and expand it so it covers the full length of the screen Set a filter to the currently selected document so that the Quotation Manager only shows the quotes of the video you are working on From the main menu select Quotations Fitter Setectep
153. remember the setting and there is no need to log in every time The automatic login can remain activated as long as the same user always works on the same computer Only when different people use ATLAS ti on the same computer at different times does this option need to be deactivated in this case the login window comes up each time you launch the software ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 36 Project File and Project Backup Backup options for the HU ATLAS ti offers the following standard backup options creation of an auto recovery file and e creation of a file with the name Backup of YourFileName hpr6 Auto recovery file The auto recovery file is created at regular time intervals and restores an HU in case of a crash If you close ATLAS ti normally the auto recovery file is deleted In case of a crash however this file is not deleted and it is available as an alternative next time you start the program You are probably familiar with this procedure from other applications If you are sure that you saved your HU shortly before the crash your own HU file is probably newer than the auto recovery file which you can then ignore If you had not saved for a while you will probably be glad of the auto recovery file The name of the recovery file consists of the letters HPR and a computer generated alphanumeric combination with the file identification tmp e g HPR9C3 tmp The file is saved in the so called User System
154. reof allows for analysis of data and structures created with ATLAS ti within other software packages ATLAS ti is intended primarily for supporting qualitative reasoning processes On the other hand especially with large amounts of data it is sometimes useful to analyze the data in a quantitative manner using statistical approaches ATLAS ti provides an export function to permit further processing of the syntax file by SPSS the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Export amp Import using XML Codes memos or entire HUs can be exported into the XML format Exporting codes and memos as XML files allows you to transfer all or only selected codes or memos between HUs using the import function Below a commonly used option to transfer a list of already defined codes is described Additional options can be found in the full manual ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL EXPORT amp IMPORT HTML Export Exporting and Importing Codes in XML Exporting Codes The code s name author creation and modification date as well as the query for super codes and their respective comments are included in the export format However no links to quotations or other objects are included You can export all codes or selected codes or all codes that pass the current filter To export all codes or all filtered codes Choose Copes MisceLLaneous Export Copes XML from the main menu In the output target dialog select Fie Confirm the default na
155. riables By following a simple naming convention PD families can be turned into nominal and categorical variables for the use outside of ATLAS ti in statistical and other database applications Let s assume that your respondents come from four different locations To represent this in ATLAS ti you need to create four PD families one for each location Exporting these for families as PD Family table to Excel you get a table as shown above containing one variable per family with the values O or 1 If you prefer just one variable for location rather than four you need to use the following naming convention when creating your PD families VaniaBLE NAME VaRIABLE VALUE Location Berlin Location London ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WORKING WITH VARIABLES PRIMARY DOCUMENT FAMILIES Location New York Location Tokyo 68 When exporting the PD Family table the result will be as follows documents Name P1 P2 P3 PA P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P 10 Pil P12 Case8_F Case6_F Case10 F Casell F Case50_M Case2_F Case3_F Case4 F Case54 M Casel5 F Case20 F Case22 F Location Berlin London New York Tokyo New York Tokyo Berlin Tokyo London New York Tokyo Berlin Figure 31 PD family table with a nominal variable for location The table shows one variable for Location and the respective values as string Berlin London New York and Tokyo Note that the variable name is prefixed with a hash sign Thi
156. rted as tab delimited XLS or as comma semicolon separated value CSV files All three formats can be read by Excel as well as OpenOffice Calc Below you see an example of an exported file The gray colored columns have been added for readability Below each documents Name Path Origin Gender Location Agegroup1 Agegroup2 Agegroup3 P1 Case8 F C Users generic Example Projects HUPATH Christine 44 rtf female Berlin 21 30 0 0 P2 Case6 F c Users generic Example Projects HUPATH Chris 88 rtf female London 21 30 0 0 P3 Case10_F C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt Donna_78 rtf female New York 21 30 0 0 P4 Case11_F C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt Dorothy_69 rtf female Tokyo 21 30 0 0 P5 Case50 M C Users generic Example Projects HUPATH T Mr Leslie 63 rtf male New York 0 31 40 0 P6 Case2 F C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt ANGELA_372 rtf female Tokyo 0 31 40 0 P7 Case3_F C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt Ann_C347 rtf female Berlin 0 31 40 0 P8 Case4 F C Users generic Example Projects HUPATH Betina 103 rtf female Tokyo 0 31 40 0 P9 Case54_M C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt T_Robert_244 rtf male London 0 0 41 50 P10 Case15_F C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt Heather_170 rtf female New York 0 0 41 50 P11 Case20_F C Users generic Example Projects lt HUPATH gt Joan_53 rtf female Tokyo 0 0 41 50 P12 Case22_F C Users generic Example Projects
157. s Strong and Weak Links Strong links or first class links are links based on relations Strong links are entities by themselves with names authors comments and other properties A strong link is only a link between a code and another code or a quote and another quote Weak links are links that do not have individual properties e g the links between quotations and codes between codes and memos between a family and its members Network vs Network View The difference between a Network and a Network View is an important distinction that is necessary to understand the way networks are handled within ATLAS ti An ATLAS ti network is the set of all objects and their links inside the Hermeneutic Unit HU It exists independently of any display oriented characteristics layout color line width etc It is the logical structure of the HU s objects It exists even before the first Network View is created Network View A Network View is typically only a subset of this global structure of nodes and logical links combined with an individual layout of nodes It is like viewing the same structure thing i e the network from different angles and with different pieces visible visual layout Node Types The user can manipulate and display almost all objects within the HU as nodes in a network view quotations codes code families memos memo families other network views primary documents PDs an
158. s in short 38 reason suspected fitting the profile o name of suspect Kaminski form linking to data in i B T reason suspected killed others o name of suspect Kaminski GOTTEN m name of suspect Kelly M name of suspect Kosmiski 2 name of victim H INVESTIGATION e investigation doubts EX investigation stolen evidence o investigation doubts 11 76 DNA analysis has been attempted on some letters th 10 3089 10 3723 11 77 The available material had been handled many times 10 3247 10 3488 amp 8 investigation suspected by whom o investigatign doubts B p Figure 50 The Co occurrence Explorer Tree View With one click you can see which codes were used when the code name of suspect Kominiski was applied the description of the suspect his potential motive and a list of reasons why he was suspected If you expand the tree one more level you gain access to the full context with a click on the quotation link In the section Explaining frequency count and number of quotations listed on page 94 it is explained how to interpret the listed quotations If you want a count of the number of quotations that co occur you need to run the table explorer see below The Co occurrence Table Explorer The Co occurrence Table Explorer in comparison to the Tree Explorer shows the frequencies of co occurrence in form of a matrix similar to a correlation matrix that you may know from statistical software To pro
159. s is the syntax that needs to be used when preparing a table for import see below The hash sign indicates to ATLAS ti that this variable needs to be turned into multiple families Super families in PD Family Tables Super Families see page 89 are treated like standard families If you do not change the default name suggested by ATLAS ti when creating super families then they are prefixed by an asterisk In the table below you see two super families combining the families for age group 7 and 2 with the family female ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WORKING WITH VARIABLES PRIMARY DOCUMENT FAMILIES documents P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P19 P 20 P21 P22 P23 P24 Name Case8 F Case6 F Casel0_F Casell F Casel6 F Case2 F Case3 F Case4 F Case5 F Casel3 F Casel4 F Age group1 amp female A oooooonnnnn 69 Age group2 amp female 0 MPH BHHPmRHPPOOOO Figure 32 Display of PD Superfamilies in PD Family tables Do not assign a PD to more than one family with the same variable name e g both to Location Berlin and Location New York ATLAS ti allows this as it treats every family as a separate dichotomous variable However when converted into a categorical variable Location in the process of creating a PD Family table such multiple assignments could create problems How to prepare and import a PD Family table see the full manual available from http manual atlasti com ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WO
160. s open close it Create a new folder let s call it the project folder Move the HU file and all documents that you have assigned to this HU into the new folder In case you have edited some or all of your primary documents remember to move the log files as well Do not move lok files delete them Open the HU and check whether you can load all documents If all documents can be loaded select the main menu option Documents Data Source MANAGEMENT Optimize PATHS This creates the HUPATH for each document You can see this in the P Docs Manager in the column origin Exchanging doc or docx files with rtf files changing paths Let s say that after reading the section on editing primary documents you realize that you have assigned doc or docx files rather than rtf files This means you can no longer modify them Editing within ATLAS ti is not possible and editing outside ATLAS ti gets you into trouble Or if the doc docx conversion to rtf does not work properly in your case this is what you need to do If ATLAS ti is open close it Create a copy of your HU file as backup just in case Open your doc or docx files in Word and save them in Word as rtf files Store them into the same folder as the doc or docx files Open ATLAS ti and then the P Docs Manager Right click on a file and select Data Source Manacement CHANGE PATH ATLAS ti asks you whether you really want to do this as there are curren
161. se that typically consists of several combined codes See the chapter on the Query Tool in the full manual Text Editor Text editors can be opened to edit comments to create and edit memos and to view format and print results All editors are capable of displaying and editing rich text format RTF They offer WordPad equivalent WYSIWYG convenience and editing features Text Search Tool From simple string matching to sophisticated pattern match GREP and category search all is available in the Text Search Tool Variables See Primary Document Families Word Cruncher The Word Cruncher counts all words in textual PDs The count can be limited to one PD only To clean up the count a stop list can be defined to exclude special symbols or words like and or the etc The result can be displayed in an Excel table ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 150 XML Converter The XML Converter lists HUs saved in XML format and applies so called style sheets miniature programs written in XSLT to the XML files The user may edit the supplied style sheets or add new ones XML Generator The XML generator exports all information contained in an HU in XML format This universal open data format allows for a wide variety of possibilities for display processing and even integration of your data with external applications User Administration Manage the ATLAS ti user database through the use
162. sing Orders Ordering Student Licenses Reseller Issues Bug System Report Newsletter Social Media Submissions and Applications Product Support Figure 91 List of support channels Frequently Asked Questions Frequently asked questions are collected in our knowledge base on our website To access the site directly from ATLAS ti select Herp More Resources Visit FAQ from the HU editor s main menu An active Internet connection is required to access this web page Forum http forum atlasti com ATLAS ti maintains various a large forum for peer to peer communication i e for users to virtually meet exchange experiences with the tool share tips and tricks and discuss technical and methodological issues that arise with the use of the program Mailing List Archive Like the forum the mailing list is another tool for peer to peer discussion advice and tips The complete mailing list archive can be conveniently accessed via Herr More Resources THE MailingList ARCHIVE ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX Troubleshooting 139 Help with Data Management Problems Documents cannot be accessed Please take a look at the sections on data management above If you are unable to solve a problem related to unloadable documents on your own please create an accessibility report see below and send it to out our support staff To create an accessibility report select Documents Data Source Manacement
163. t continued by 5 3 ary photogr X contradicts 5 4 WI death ce gt criticizes 5 5 Eliza S amp Jah Henr gt discusses expands 5 7 she was found dei explains 5 8 Neither the police gt justifies i gt supports Es 8 1 After separating fr Open Relation Editor 8 2 By 1865 she was registered by 1 1416 1 1486 15 9 An hour later she Figure 76 Select quotations drag and click target quotation in the Quotation Manager Defining New Hyperlink Relations The procedure for defining or editing hypertext relations is equivalent to the methods described for editing code code relations You may either define a new relation by choosing the bottom option from the list of relations when actually creating a link or you may use a hyper links relation editor that is identical to the code code relations editor Newly defined or edited relations must also be saved to disk Traversing Hyperlinks Media type quotations can be distinguished easily by their icons These icons may be used in the margin area the Object Manager the Object Explorer the Crawler and in Network Views The figure below shows the media types of hyperlinked quotations in the margin From top to bottom these are text video audio image and Google Earth hyperlinks 2 4 lt shown in GE map gt amp 7 1 shown in GE map E lt discusses gt 13 38 E lt expands gt 19 1 f live link GE 15 5 Figure 77 Media typ
164. taching Memos to Data Segments The procedure to create and associate a memo with a data segment or an existing quotation is similar to the coding procedures described above You can customize the default values used for memo title and type via Extras PREFERENCES GENERAL PREFERENCES TAB Memos Select the part of the primary document to which you want to attach the memo highlighted data segment or right click on the memo and select the option Select a memo in the Memo Manager and drag and drop the memo to the AttacH Memo ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 73 Data Analysis Tools Overview Analysis Tools In the first part of this section you find a description of exploratory and advanced analysis tools These are the word cruncher the query tool the co occurrence tools the code primary documents table super codes and super families Word Cruncher Creates a word frequency count for textual primary documents see page 75 Query Tool Finds quotations based on a combination of codes like Show me all quotations where both Code A and Code B have been applied Such queries can also be combined with variables in form of PD families Thus you can restrict a query to a certain sub groups of your documents Show me all quotations where both Code A and Code B have been applied but only for female respondents between the age of 21 and 30 see page 77 Co occurrence tools Different from t
165. taken se G reason released theory dispute reason released theory rebutte 3 88 A man named James Thomas Sa 11 3 He was cleared of suspicion when 0 E3 1 On 1 September the day after the 0 1 As he was still imprisoned at the ti 0 However Sickerk E nm nn q m I ot considere Figure 45 Location of super code button in the query tool Enter a name for the new Super Code or accept the default name created from the query expression Click OK The newly created Super Code immediately appears in the list of codes and can be used for new queries and Super Codes right away Its icon and code name are red Z name of suspect 28 0 amp name of suspect Cohen 6 6 4 name of suspect Feigenbaum 1 0 38 name of suspect Kaminski 3 0 8 name of suspect Kelly 1 0 Z name of suspect Kosmiski 8 2 reason released alibi reason released lack of evidence manually added comment Figure 46 Display of super code in the Code Manager You can access and edit the query later but the notation that is used in the edit query window is not so easy to understand Therefore it is advisable that you enter the query into the comment field of the super code You can copy and paste it from the feedback pane into the comment field ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 87 Restricting Code Queries to Su
166. text editor is used It is opened via the Memo Manager s toolbar for an existing selected memo or when creating anew memo fr 29 Memo ME 15 07 2011 137 ES CRs E Type memo Figure 33 The memo editor Below the toolbar the editor includes a title and memo type field The default title assigned to a newly created memo is ME today s date The title and the default type Commentary can be changed by overwriting the default title or by selecting a different memo type Various options are available You can change the default memo title and manage available memo types You can also be prompted for a title when creating a new memo After having typed or changed something in the memo editor and before closing the editor save the contents if you want to keep it Click on the Save button or select Memo Save from the editor s menu Create a free memo In the Memo Manager click the Create New button or select Create Free Memo from the HUEditor s Memos menu A new memo with the default memo title is created The memo editor opens default setting j Change the memo title according to your needs and begin to type the memo ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL WORKING WITH MEMOS A 72 on the Accept button or select Memo Save or click Ctrl S If you forget to Save the memo content before moving on to do something else by clicking save it you are reminded by the program to do so before closing the editor At
167. the Ripper stage II 62 hpr6 Edited by team Date Time 2011 09 14 20 28 06 P 2 Transcript Jack the Ripper Introduction 2 4 It is my pleasure to escort you now back to the Lo 8 8 Susanne No codes No memos Hyper Links shown in GE map 16 6 Victims circle GE snapshot Co orlinked quote 16 6 Figure 83 Output of hyperlinked quotations The figure above shows the report generated after setting the the quotation filter to Hyper linked The quotation filter is displayed in the header Restricting Output to Selected Objects Output options for selected objects available from the HU Editor s menus are restricted to a single object For example you can print one code at a time Output options within the Object Manager allow you to select multiple objects ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL GENERATING OUTPUT 127 and output each of them at the same time For example you can highlight three codes within the Code Manager and create a report that contains quotations coded to each of the three codes Another option to restrict output is to work with filters The output options for the four main object types are explained in detail in the full manual Creating Reports with the XML Converter If you create an XML output file it can be read by other applications that support XML One main advantage is that the application can define autonomously and completely detached from any display information contained in t
168. the selected items from the system If you want to remove one item at a time you can simply double click on each item If you delete objects that belong to a family somewhere else they will be removed automatically from all their hosting families Using Families as Filters Access the Filter Options via the Main Menu One added value of families is that you can use them as filters For example if you have created a code family including only Abstract codes you can use this family as a filter to reduce the total number of codes displayed in the drop down list in the Code Manager and the margin area Filter Items using the Family Manager Open the Family Manager Double click a family Watch how the display in the Object Manger and the margin area changes to display only items that are members of the selected family ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 64 f Code Family Manager HU Jack the Ripp 25 Families Edit Miscellaneous View Name amp 3 Murderer role of the media_aiding investigation E Murderer Murder amp 3 Victim Who 3 role of the media facilitating free riding 1 0 XX role of the media legend building 9 0 3 role of the media sensationalizing 4 0 filter setting affects background color if a filter is set modus operandi cut throat modus operandi differences modus operandi mutilation modus operandi others 5 0 name of susp
169. the spatial relations e g distance embeddedness overlapping co occurrence between coded data segments You can display a short help message for each operator by right clicking on its corresponding button in the toolbar ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS The result of any query isa set of quotations Build complex queries incrementally with immediate feedback after each step 80 The Query Language Queries are built step by step from operands and operators using the principle of Reversed Polish Notation RPN This sounds complicated but it is actually quite easy See for example http en wikipedia org wiki Reverse Polish notation RPN invented by Polish mathematician Lukasiewicz does not require parentheses to control the priority of operators nor does it require any other characters like commas periods etc Every click produces a meaningful result and it is impossible to create syntactically wrong queries Operands First Operators Next The most important point to understand about RPN is the order in which operands and operators of a search expression are entered Using RPN operands codes code families are entered first followed by one or more operators Creating a Query with the Query Tool We are really not interested in the operands codes code families themselves but in the set of quotations that is the result of evaluating an operand By formulating a query A OR B
170. three rolling copies ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 38 A copy bundle file can also be used to freeze a certain state of your analysis e g your first stage of coding When writing the methodology section for your thesis or the research report you can review the frozen stages to remind you how your analysis progressed over time Copy bundle files are also useful for transferring projects between computers or for sending them to others via email Then you need to unbundle or as ATLAS ti calls it install the file see below When you use the HUPATH setup you can also use WinZip or WinRAR to create a compressed file of your project Use whatever you are comfortable with Consider file size when creating copy bundle files A copy bundle file should not become too large otherwise it might not be possible to install it Too large means a few gigabytes in size Thus do not include large audio and video files in the bundle You will have the option to exclude certain items before creating the bundle file How to create a copy bundle file Save your HU From the main menu select Tools Copy Bundle Create Bundle The following window opens then you can simple click on the Create Bundle button to save the bundle If the window appears as shown in Figure 10 Creating a copy bundle file file Q Copy Bundle Document Selection cj Documents not in bundle Bundled documents 5
171. tics of the different family types follows All procedures for displaying editing and creating families are found in the menus of their object type i e under the Documents Codes and Memos menus The Family Manager sing the Family Manager you can create edit and delete families You can add and remove items family members write comments concerning a particular family or set a family as filter ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL FAMILY LIFE 61 r it Primary Doc Family Manager HU Jack the Ripper stage II 62 Stax Families Edit Miscellaneous View E Description of Victims 5 79 Investigaton all files 26 08 20 Murder sites all 26 08 20 Murder sites second murder 26 08 20 list of Primay Doc families P 5 2_Victim_Mary_Ann_Nichols pdf 13 P 1 1_Jack the Ripper Story Introduction mp3 P 6 2_Victim_Annie_Chapman pdf 18 P 2 Transcript Jack the Ripper Introduction 6 2 P 8 2 Victim Elizabeth Stride pdf 15 P 3 1 Jack the Ripper Story rtf 99 I3 P 9 2 Victim Catherine Eddowes pdf 15 P 4 1 Jack the Ripper Letters rtf 30 P10 2 Victim Mary Jane Kelly pdf 18 P 7 2 Victim Annie Chapman scene of the m P11 3 Investigation Suspects pdf 167 P12 3 Criminal Profiliggy rtf 8 4 m non members Figure 25 Primary Document Family Manager Family Managers and the procedures described in the following are the same for all family types
172. tions provided by the Code Manager There are a number of other options in the Code Manager which you can access via the menu and toolbar or the context menus For instance you can create new codes rename delete or merge codes Creating a new code a Click the Create A New Item button see left Or select Copes Create Free Cope from the Code Manager menu Enter a code name and click OK Frequency and density are both 0 as this code is not yet linked to anything Renaming codes The renaming option is a global option This means that renaming a code word in the Code Manager affects all coded segments that use this code Mark a code word in the Code Manager right click and select Rename from the context menu OR Use the in place way of renaming entries that you may know from working with the Windows file manager Coloring codes Q If you want to color your codes select a code in the Code Manager and click on the rainbow colored circle in the tool bar To make code colors visible in the margin right click on a white space in the margin area and select the option Use Ossect CoLors In order to still be able see which code label belongs to which quotation bar a small bar colored in the same color as the quotation bar is shown in front of the code label The code label shows the user defined color Deleting a code The delete option has global effects it removes a code from the entire HU and from everywhere in your primary
173. tly no problems related to the path reference Accept the warning Assuming you use the HUPATH setup you ll see the following Change path for primary document Change the file extension from doc or docx to rtf New file name please enter complete path lt HUPATH gt y Berliner Zeitung docx Cancel Browse Figure 14 Change the path reference for a document ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 43 Load the document Repeat this for all other primary documents that you want to change This process is not always foolproof sometimes the first half page will be filled with nonsense characters But this can usually be solved by going into edit mode and deleting those lines What You Should Know About Editing Required data file format The edit option is only available for text only or rich text documents As doc or docx files are converted on the fly when loaded they cannot be edited PDF documents are write protected by definition In ATLAS ti versions later than 6 2 doc and docx files will be converted to rich text files and stored as packaged files in rich text format Then editing will also be possible What is changed If you modify a document that is linked to the HU then you modify the original document on the hard disk Thus the changes are not only visible inside ATLAS ti If you open the document in Word or elsewhere outside ATLAS ti the changes are also
174. to check connectivity Cm Coma Figure 93 Live update settings You have the option to prohibit the live update for instance for settings where users to not have administrative rights to the computer Or if internet access is not always available Then it can become quite annoying if ATLAS ti starts the update request just to find out after half a minute that no Internet access is available You can set the proxy settings or enter an authentication if needed We strongly recommend that you leave automatic update checking enabled see Help menu By always keeping ATLAS ti up to date you avoid problems and benefit from ongoing continuous development of new tools and features Also in case you need to request assistance with a technical problem our support team may not be able to assist you as quickly if your installation is severely out of date Updating regularly is beneficial on all levels so the adage never change a running system we sometimes hear is at least as far as ATLAS ti is concerned a misguided superstition that will hamper you more than anything If it wasn t for the many free service packs updates we publish for each program generation users would still not be able to perform a great many tasks that they hence have come to consider essential for their work such as survey processing XML stylesheets smooth PDF and many more All of these were introduced in free service packs ATLAS ti 6 USER
175. ts of your project within ATLAS ti that contain text Searches are not restricted to just textual PDs codes memos quotations all families code code links hyper links and the HU can be searched In addition the scope of the search can be limited to certain fields You find the Object Crawler under the Tools menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN CONCEPTS 25 Object Explorer The Object Explorer displays all the elements of an HU in a strictly hierarchical manner even if the structures are non hierarchical or even cyclic You find the Object Explorer under the Tools menu ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL MAIN STEPS IN WORKING WITH ATLAS TI 26 Main Steps in Working with ATLAS ti Data and Project Management Figure 3 From data to structure A first important but often neglected phase is data and project management The first step is data preparation You find more information on supported file formats in the section Preparing Documents in the full manual Apart from analyzing your data you also manage digital content and it is important to know how the software does it See the section How ATLAS ti handles documents on page 93ff in the full manual We also advise to read the chapter on project management p 270ff In order to give you an idea what kinds of issues might come up here is a list of issues that are important to consider Where will you store your data Do you want to work with external or interna
176. u can set the link display options under Dispay Link Disptay Cutting Links Several approaches to disconnecting previously linked nodes are available The first method works for all types of links and is useful when many nodes linked to one other node are to be disconnected Select one or more nodes whose connections to another node are to be removed Choose Links Cur Links from the Network Editor s menu or click on the Cut Links button in the toolbar Move the mouse pointer with the rubber bands to the target node F Click the left mouse button Alternatively F Click on one or more link labels ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 110 Choose Links Cur Links from the Network Editor s menu or click on the Cut Links button in the toolbar Or Move the mouse pointer over a link label F Right click and choose Cur Link from the context menu The latter two methods work on first class links only code code or quote quote hyper links Modifying Links The type of a link e g its Relation can be changed in the Network Editor 1 Right click on a link label and select Chance Retation from the context menu The relation menu pops up Select a different relation A very efficient way to manipulate first class links is offered by the Link Managers that you can access via the main menu s Network menu Removing Nodes will not To remove nodes from a Network View delete the objects they
177. u to confirm that this quotation and associated links should also be deleted Click OK Note that removing a coded segment does not delete the text or other data material that you have coded The quotation is an object stored in the HU file You can think of all objects stored in the HU as a layer on top of your data material The HU only accesses the data via a reference and loads it into the HU editor The data itself is not touched Writing comments for coded segments If you notice something interesting while coding and you want to write it down use the quotation comment field for it Right click on the highlighted quotation and select the option Epir Comment from the context menu 7 An editor pops up Write a comment on the selected data segment Save your comment by clicking on the Accert button and close the editor EB 1 5 There is also evidence that th 10 10 ake you unhappy 9 down happiness visibility of quotation comment parenthood are not prt the same or slightly hs Thus what these E that kein children 1 5 http www jstor org pss 351391 2 have children in the C LICK TO EDIT 10 happier and many ire all these baby Figure 19 Drag amp Drop coding Quotation comments are visible in the bar in the margin area and by the tilde sign in front of the quotation name in the quotations list ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES 53 Further coding op
178. ully interactive The displayed objects are sensitive to mouse clicks and have their own context menus In addition a variety of drag and drop options are possible A general context menu can be opened inside the margin area by moving the mouse pointer onto the background between the objects It allows you to set display properties of the objects Memos Memos capture your thoughts regarding the text and are an important device for creating theory A memo is similar to a code but usually contains longer passages of text A memo may stand alone or it may refer to quotations codes and other memos They can be grouped according to types method theoretical descriptive etc which is helpful in organizing and sorting them Memos may also be included as the objects of analysis by assigning them as PDs Network Editor The Network Editor displays and offers all editing capability to construct and refine semantic networks In addition it allows the visual creation and traversal of hypertext structures Network Views Network Views are a bit more sophisticated than families They allow you to conceptualize the structure by connecting sets of similar elements together in a visual diagram With the aid of Network Views you can express relationships between codes quotations and memos PDs families and even Network Views can also be nodes in a network view Network View Manager The Network View Manager contains a list of al
179. uspect Cohen name of suspect Feigenbaum name of suspect Kaminski name of suspect Kelly name of suspect Kosmiski reason suspect N3 reason suspected could have been there 15 2 reasd sis 1 reaso pec 1 reason suspect Bl reason suspect Pl reason suspect 1 8 reason suspect Bl Figure 53 Co occurrence Table Explorer with selected codes Another way to reduce the codes to be displayed in the table is by setting a code family as filter before running the Co occurrence Table Explorer ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS reason for being suspected behavioral clues 94 Inspecting Content In order to see the quotations associated with the two co occuring codes the table cell can be expanded as shown in figure 32 The quotations in the drop down list provide a direct link to the data in context name of suspect Cohen 11 34 Cohen exhibitetP iolent destructive tendencies 7 941 7 1379 11 35 coincided with the end of the murders Described a 7 1 7 196 11 164 coincided with the end of the murders Described a 7 1 7 1379 Figure 54 Expanded cell in the Co occurrence Table Explorer The number of co occurrences in the above example is two however three quotations are listed Why this is the case is explained next Explaining frequency count and number of quotations listed The co occurrence frequency does not count single quotations it counts co occurrence events
180. visible Mind the following rules There are two rules you need to bear in mind when editing a primary document if you do not want to get in trouble Rule No 1 Always edit within ATLAS ti Editing a document outside ATLAS ti e g in Word jeopardizes the congruency of the coding Everything you do within the HU can be understood as a layer on top of your document This also applies to your codings Each coded segment has a reference pointing to the part of the document that it codes If you modify a document outside ATLAS ti the references may point to the wrong section in your text and if so you will end up with a misaligned coding system If you correct a document in a word processor outside of ATLAS ti the HU does not know where changes have been made or where adjustments need to ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 44 be made to the coded segments If the HU were to load such a document the codes would no longer show up where they were supposed to In order to avoid such a situation the HU controls the size and modification date of a document before it is loaded If a mismatch is found the document is not loaded and you see only a blank HU editor As it would be very restrictive if ATLAS ti did not allow you to rescue such a document there is an option to reset the last access information and this forces ATLAS ti to load the document under Documents Data Source Management However this does not mean t
181. w to open the Co occurrence Tools The Co occurrence Tree Explorer The Co occurrence Table Explorer 5 User defined contenta s b tco dte eda trc dena Gilet tipi duse deeds ta ero a ec theta e dao betel Inspecting Contents tira setti neat ede anita e OO pfe Pctri d dee lado Explaining frequency count and number of quotations listed Codes Primary Documents Cross TabuUl tiori oerte enr tn utensil Glee ees How to create a Codes Primary Documents Table essssssssssessseseseeee estne tetnetnent sess tatnen enatis tret instet tenta insit Exporting the entire data sel ccn etn tere oie tera ere i te d t e cp t t a c rr FER RR D c edd Preparing tables to compare sub groups of data renee en ener tected nite tiene tenets trennt enne E oe Dti puberulis A p E E E 99 Tools for Visualization and Theory Building s t idee e e de tette dee b a A bd 99 sin el dd A WEILE 99 Nodes and Links Directed and Non Directed Links iss Strong and Weak Links 102 Network vs Network View Node Types T CIEMeaLe eu IP TIRAS ifo REL The Role of Relations E The Network Edit tas m rtr ere E e t torret i UR e e aa ap ait ANRE E TE NRN TT R in BasiciNetwork View Procedures dria sr ede eredi e eger ra e P e e ra Pa Ed ER Cd T e e da Hc D e Ya e Bea bed 105 Creating Network Views To create a new Network View To open a Net
182. work View on an Object 106 Adding Nodes to a Network View a acera eu dte eie diete ti ari ae d deer cii die dd 106 Mia Drag ND E E DE Via the Import Nodes dialog vus Linking o CL M Tolik two nodes using the toolb ar ICoh edd cerne tert erede scr d Pe ret rdiet reni cots 108 Cutting Links m D eret ANI CPP teei 110 To remove nodes froma Network Vlew i eam tte ite cec diee e noceat n e dE e o Ete ble bei ele 110 To delete nodes from a Network View 110 Simple analytic functions Import Node Neighbors walt Import Cosoccurting Codes uncta ce cett a rto abs 111 ISiccunr defui AE 111 Printing Networks 112 Network Views for other Applications 112 Copy to Clipboard acra tiet iere t E n tion ieee E eR EC ob n E OVE aaa EITHER ERR REL 112 Save Network View as Graphic File 22 112 Hyp rtext n nie cei eres 114 Representing the Rhetoric of Text 114 Benefits Of Hypertext icd datae rar uon det reb que Gg er nn d oe n cnc e E Ree e AT I M eri DER ce 115 Vaderiefoen zcfezTele oysto o eC 115 Graphical Hyperlink Maps 116 General Procedures iaa cemeterio tte ra e GR I LO ROO Da a C d Rn da d Te TIER RE C HR T T DATO D 117 Star or Chain connections cic cre tem e e ttc pod 117 Hyperlinks in the
183. works resemble more closely the way human memory and thought is structured Cognitive load in handling complex relationships is reduced with the aid of spatial representation techniques ATLAS ti uses networks to help represent and explore conceptual structures Networks add a heuristic right brain approach to qualitative analysis Along with using networks for mind mapping and the visual design of theoretical models you can exploit the structural properties of code networks to enhance the retrieval of quotations Using networks for retrieval purposes is a well known technique in information retrieval In that domain a structured sets of keywords is usually referred to as a thesaurus This usage of networks for semantic retrieval is described in detail in the full manual see http manual atlasti com Nodes and Links The term network is formally defined within graph theory a branch of discrete mathematics A network is defined as a set of nodes or vertices and links A node in a network may be linked to an arbitrary number of other nodes The number of links for any one node is called its degree e g a node with a degree of zero is not linked at all Another simple formal property of a network is its order the number of its nodes You may make practical use of the degree of nodes by using it as a sorting criterion in the codes list window The column Density in the Code Manager represents the degree of a code Directed
184. wsletters Submissions are always welcome Knowledge Base http kb atlasti com Search the knowledge base for immediate questions you may have related to licenses installation update procedures trouble shooting or use related questions A quick search may already provide the answer without having to dig for an answer in the full manual Social Media YouTube http youtube atlasti com You find a growing number of video tutorials on the ATLAS ti YouTube channel So far videos are available in English and Spanish other to come Facebook http facebook atlasti com Stay updated with the latest news on product updates special offers new training materials etc by joining us on Facebook We are also happy to hear from users via facebook Stop by and let us know about your projects and experience with ATLAS ti Twitter http twitter atlasti com Follow us on Twitter for the most essential bits of information and announcements version and service pack releases special offers training opportunities etc ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL APPENDIX 137 Newsroom http newsroom atlasti com The newsroom aggregates all pertinent company news conveniently on a single platform Press releases articles and comments from the various ATLAS ti profiles on social networking sites are agglomerated in real time In addition the newsroom lets you subscribe to available content via RSS so you re always up to date on what s g
185. xt links Similar to the linking of codes you may create hyperlinks in a the Network View editor see Linking Nodes on page 108 In addition hypertext links can be created in context or via Drag amp Drag in the Quotation Manager and in the margin area Creating Hyperlinks using the context menu To create a chain F Select a data segment as source or an already existing quotation Source from the context menu Alternatively you can click on the Source Right click on the selection or the quotation and select the option Create Link Anchor button in the primary document toolbar select the option Create Link Tarcet from the context menu Alternatively you Select a target segment or an existing quotation as target right click and can click on the Source Anchor button in the primary document toolbar If you select a data segment as source or target that was not yet a quotation ATLAS ti automatically creates a quotation from it If none of the existing relations fit create a new relation by selecting Open A list of relation pops up Select a relation to link the two selected quotations RELATION EDITOR ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 120 TT Link 4 5 gt 4 6 gt gt gt gt continued by X contradicts gt criticizes 3 discusses explains l gt justifies supports Open Relation Editor Figure 74 Select a relation to link the source with the target quotation
186. y to recognize where you have set a filter ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 98 Create the table by selecting Copes Output Copes Primary Documents TABLE gt and then select the option you need Quotation Count or Word count the internal or the Excel table ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL VISUALIZATION 99 Visualization Network Views Tools for Visualization and Theory Building The first steps of theory building of course already take place much earlier often already during coding Ideas are developed further during the process of querying the data By asking specific questions you gain more and more insights and start to see how things are related Memo writing is an essential accompanying activity as well T The network view function offers further possibilities to explore your data and to visualize your ideas and findings In a network view editor you can link all objects to each other Code code and quotation quotation links can also be named and commented Further a number of graphical elements like colored links the line width the node or background color can be set Image documents can be used as thumbnails see page 99 Another function discussed below is the creation of hypertext This is a network based on quotations thus you work on the data rather than on the more abstract coding level Through hypertext the original sequentiality of your data is de linearized broken down into pieces that are th
187. ys or gorgeous looking girls prospective parents know that raising appily about parenthood which is why Xt reasons for deciding pro t self delusion Figure 17 Meanings of coloured bars in the margin As you can see in Figure 17 Meanings of coloured bars in the margin overlapping codes are displayed in different colors in the margin area These colors help you to distinguish which bar belongs to which code word If you were to add even more layers the next two layers would be displayed in violet and blue After that silver is used again The colors do not contain any information about the different code levels in the sense of higher or lower ranked categories When you delete a quotation the colors may change It is possible to set your own colors for codes but not for the bars marking the length of a quotation see below Coloring codes ATLAS ti 6 USER MANUAL BASIC CODING TECHNIQUES Coding via drag amp drop 50 At the beginning of the coding process it is normal to generate a lot of new codes But after a while you will find similarities and repetitions in the data and want to apply codes that already exist The easiest way is to code from the Code Manager via drag amp drop I Open the Code Manager by clicking on the Codes button next to the list field for codes or select Copes Cope Manacer from the main menu l Change the view to Sincte Corumn View View Sincte CoLumn if not already activated H

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