Like, have you people ever used qualitative analysis programs (NVivo, MAXQDA) that you could recommend?
I personally think NVivo is utter garbage, but MAXQDA seems very user friendly, ofc thats only from experience from using their Demos for like 5 days and im gonna be working with material of over 1000 pages, so any suggestion is welcome.
I dont have much experience using this kind of software, everything ive done "by hand" so to speak (Word, copy paste much) and with materials of 200ish pages at most.
I've heard good things about MAXQDA and Atlas.ti
That said, I don't really use any social sciences software. I tend to be more quantitative in my approach, which means deriving the numbers is usually easier, and then I can use Word and Excel, and maybe a calculator, to do the rest.
Aha! Yes ive heard of Atlas.ti but i had forgotten about it! I should get the demo and test it out.