<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Navigation:  Transcriptions and Comments > In-Vivo Coding - Turn Words into Codes

Qualitative analysis frequently uses codes derived from the meaning of the data they are applied to. In INTERACT you can specify special key words or phases and run the Create Codes from Transcripts routine on all transcripts within a data file to label each sentence accordingly.

INTERACT Professional users can configure this powerful Workflow Module and share it with other users that only have an INTERACT Basic at their disposal.

If no Professional license is available, it is still possible to apply Codes semi-automated or manually.

Turning words into Codes can be of help in any of the following situation:

oDuring Text analysis on your transcription, you discover that certain words are used extremely often. To make those expressions available in the descriptive statistics, you can add those as an observation Code to the corresponding Events.

oYou used specific expressions in your comments that you'd find useful to have as a regular observation Code; offering duration statistics and enabling the exploration with any of the other analysis routines like Sequence Analysis, State-Space-Grid or finding Contingencies.

oYou were exploring your material without a predefine coding scheme, entering anything noticeable as a comment and now you want to turn some of your entries into Codes, to access the full range of statistics INTERACT has to offer.