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Featuring Tom Weisner, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Dedoose
Interviewed and Written by Kris Castner, M.A., M.A., A.B.D.
December 2021
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Development Technology and Qualitative Research - Early Days of QDAS
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- Extreme costs associated with development technology
- Cumbersome licensing and renewal procedures for users and teams
- Little to no one-on-one-support
- Inability to train other users with ease
- Inability to collaborate as a team if not working in the same building/University
- Project data access issues (i.e., when you upload data, it remains in the platform format and can’t be readily exported)
- Inability to easily export and analyze information from the platform using other software.
- General lack of visualization components (i.e., charting data, formatting directly for use in publications)
- Unable to use one system with another (i.e., colleagues need to use the same option)
- Longer term commitments and training in order to be proficient
- Inability to view the codes or progress from other users in the same platform in real time.
- People tended to use whatever system they were trained in, and never changed it
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Dedoose the Company- How a Founding Trifecta Became a Global Team
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At the time, Dr. Weisner was working on a grant from the National Institute of Health to develop ways to integrate quantitative and qualitative data in the area of developmental disability and cultural studies. Dr. Weisner went on to appoint Dr. Lieber to be the Director of the Laboratory within the overall research center. His personal background and interests in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods analysis, and technology, were ideal for partnering with Dr. Weisner. Their substantive work together and shared drive to improve the processes we were using led to their development of FileMaker Pro as a platform to build the EthnoNotes solution (Weisner, Gallimore, Barbara Keogh, Lucinda Bernheimer, Kazuo Nihira, 1984–2005).
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Dedoose the Product - An App Made for Researchers, by Researchers
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Which features made their original Dedoose “hot list”? Try the following:
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- Code on screen with ease
- Be able to work as a team comfortably
- Learn quickly and easily, using video training online, how to use the tool
- Ability to work remotely / in different organizations
- Gain access to video analysis tools
- Be capable of uploading/downloading data
- Be capable of exporting / sharing data
- Use the platform to create charts and figures
- Format visuals and text and quantitative coding data for inclusion in published articles and studies
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Diversity in Application and User Base - Dedoose Across Industries
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Advice From Dr. Weisner for Researchers - Budding and Seasoned
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Our dedication to listening to, and serving, our user community.
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Thanks for taking the time to learn more about the people, motivations, and goals that helped shape Dedoose into the company and app that it is today!
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Learn More About Dr. Tom Weisner, Co-Founder of Dedoose
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