Re: [emacs-humanities] Thematic analysis in Emacs

[Marcus Kammer]

I am working in the field of user experience and I often do qualitative data 
analysis of interviews using org-mode. I use subtrees as "summary" of a smaller 
junk of the transcript and tags as an alternative for codes. I also wrote 
myself some helper functions in emacs-lisp:

https://git.sr.ht/~marcuskammer/emacs.d/tree/main/item/bundle/bundle--mk.el#L52
https://git.sr.ht/~marcuskammer/emacs.d/tree/main/item/bundle/bundle--ux.el#L354

My personal goal is to use org-mode and emacs-lisp to get some basic natural 
language processing for qualitative data analysis. 

I also did setup hunspell for spelling correction support:
https://git.sr.ht/~marcuskammer/emacs.d/tree/main/item/init.el#L439

Usually I dont use tables for analysis work.


> Jean-Christophe Helary via Emacs-humanities <emacs-humanities@gnu.org> hat am 
> 19.10.2024 22:53 CEST geschrieben:
> 
>  
> I’m (at last) entering a PhD course this month and have started working on 
> data from my MA.
> 
> I have about 30 hours of interviews (14 people, in Japanese) and I’m 
> wondering what’s the best way to do thematic analysis in Emacs.
> 
> I’ve first started with a spreadsheet in LibreOffice and stopped when I saw 
> how cumbersome the thing was going to become.
> I then moved to tables in Emacs and the difficulty of having word-wrapping in 
> cells stopped me after 5 minutes of searching on the web.
> 
> I’m left with using an org file, with titles, tags, etc. But I’m wondering if 
> it’s the best approach.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your input.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Christophe Helary
> @jchelary@emacs.ch
> https://sr.ht/~brandelune/

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