Analysis
Once your data has been coded, you can view the coded data in the 'Analyze' screen. In the top part of the screen, there are two function buttons: a filter button to help you organise your coded segments, and a download button to export them. Below, you can view the coded segments.
As default, all codes, categories, documents and users are selected, therefore all coded segments are displayed. You can select one or multiple items from the filter list by ticking them. Requal offers four filters:
*Filter by code *Filter by category *Filter by document *Filter by user
To turn off filters for codes or categories, select the 'Reset' option. 'Off' will then be displayed for the given filter. Remember to select at least one document, code or category to see the associated text segments for analysis. You can also select all the options in the list by clicking 'Select all'.
You can download selected segments by clicking on the download button at the top of the page. You can choose whether you want to download the coded segments as HTML or CSV. Segments will be downloaded in a file together with document and code information.
If you download an HTML file, it will be named report.html and you can open it in any web browser. This is an example of it:
If you download a CSV file, the name of the file will indicate the date and time of the export, for example requal_export-2022-11-26-160754.csv. There are several programs to work with when you want to explore or edit CSV files, e.g. MS Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice or Numbers.
As you can see the exported table consists of five columns:
- doc_name - in this column you can look up the name of the analysed document
- doc_id - a database identification of the document
- code_name - this column shows the names of the codes you used during the analysis
- code_id - a database identification of the code
- segment_text - the most important column for your analysis, because you can see the segments you selected for chosen codes or categories.
Tip! To display your CSV file in MS Excel, first open the application, go to the Data tab and select 'From CSV'. Excel will then allow you to browse your computer for the appropriate CSV file and display it in a readable form.