NVivo workshop - Part 1 - University of Southampton - UK

1. NVIVO
NVivo Workshop (Day 1)
Presented by Hanadi Khadawardi
PGR Training - Faculty of Humanities

2. NVIVO
WORKSHOP AIMS
• Introducing NVivo
• Creating your project
• Managing your literature review
• Managing your data
• Coding and analyzing
• Querying
• Visualizing and reporting your results

3. NVIVO
Without NVivo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLZ7fqSEEc

4. NVIVO
With NVivo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLZ7fqSEEc

5. NVIVONVIVO
• Organize your research
• Transcribe field notes and audio files
• Organize, classify and store data in an ordered and
organized way
• To display data in different ways
• Import, create and edit a wide range of data
• To display data in different ways
• Code data
• Work with documents, audio, video and images
• Work with spreadsheets and database tables
• Work with literature reviews and bibliographies
• Capture and analyze online data
• Import notes from Evernote or OneNote
• Capture your thinking by memoing and manage
your ideas
• Query data
• To annotate texts
What do you expect from NVivo?
• Conduct a research for words or phrase
• To undertake frequency counts
• To sort, resort, classify, reclassify pieces of
data to facilitate constant comparison
• To establish linkages between coding
categories
• To quote data in the final report
• To communicate with other researchers
• Link ideas, themes and information
• Use smart search and find tools
• Interrogate data with query tools
• Visualize patterns and connections in your
data
• Interchange and share your data
• You can display “Code Stripes”
• You can “Create Models”
• You can create “Reports
• To draw conclusions and to verify
• conclusions and hypothesis

6. Important things to know about NVivo
NVivo wont’ analyse
or interpret your
data for you!
A computer-based
tool for qualitative
and mixed methods
data analysis
Always
backup
Never open it
from a USB drive
Be patient
Significant quantity
of hard disk space
available
NVIVO

7. NVIVO
1. Click on
New Project
button
2. Open New
project
Creating your project

8. NVIVO
1. Type a name for
your project in the
Title field
2. Enter a description
of the project
(optional)
3. Click Ok
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=9WzZYYC8WCg
Creating your project

9. NVIVO
The main NVivo project window will open
• The main NVivo
project window
will open
• You may also
save it again
somewhere
other than ‘My
Document’.

10. Navigation Pane
So what‘s it look like?
The Basics

11. NVIVO
What is your research?
Focus
group
Field
notes
Observation
Interview
Demographic
questionnaire
Document
Pdf./.doc.
/docx
Audio/ video
recordings
Mpg/avi/mp
4/wmv
Mp3/wav
Graphics/
pictures/
Art
Bmp/gif/jp
g/jpeg
Web
content
Survey
results

12. NVIVO
Preparation before importing data into NVivo
• Consider the best way or structure to name data files
(dates/data types/participants/events.
• Folders can be created according to e.g. cases studies,
locations, field notes, etc.
• Transcription (carried out using word processing software)
• Uniform transcription format and style for all transcripts (for
later auto coding in NVivo)

13. NVIVO
To create folders
1. Click on the Source
button
2. Create a folder (right
click on the Internal
folder
3. Select New Folder
4. Name the folder and
click OK

14. NVIVO
To import internal documents
1. Right click in the
list area
2. Select Import
Internals
3. Select Import
Documents from
the menu
https://www.iup.edu/WorkArea/Download
Asset.aspx?id=127928
Endnote and Nvivo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtEW
glfB2Hw

15. NVIVO
The Import dialog box
will display
1. Use the Browse
button to locate
the files you wish
to import
2. Click on Open and
then OK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=rAb4hgqFmOE
To import internal documents

16. NVIVO
The document will be
imported and displayed
on the list view part
1. Examine the file by
double clicking on
the file row
2. Detailed view
opens in the lower
part of the window
3. Video and pictures
can be imported in
the same way
To import internal documents

17. NVIVO
To import external documents
• Externals are sources to represent
material that cannot be imported,
such as books and web sites.
• They can also be used for
material that you do not wish to
import, such as large video files
of which you already have a
transcript of the relevant parts.
(up to 20MB)

18. NVIVO
To create external folders
1. Click on the
Externals folder of
the sources window
2. Right click on the
main window
3. Select New
External
http://help-
nv10.qsrinternational.com/de
sktop/concepts/about_sourc
es.htm

19. NVIVO
To link to external file
The New External
dialogue box
1. Fill in the Name
2. Fill in the
Description

20. NVIVO
1. Click on the External tab
to select the location of
the file to be linked to
2. Click the Browse button
3. Select the external to
link to
(Pdf/books/videos/
4. Click on Open and then
OK
To link to external file

21. NVIVO
To link to external file
• The external will
be created
• You can use the
blank document
for your notes on
the external

22. NVIVO
To open the external file
1. Right click on
the external
2. Select Open
External File

23. NVIVO
Classifications and attributes
• Classifications contain attributes such as the
demographic characteristics of the participants,
(age, education, employment).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6glZHPucvc
• Classifications can be manually created within
NVivo, or imported from an external classification
sheet (.xls).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCUCzKFSyac
http://www.onlineaukcije.com/youtube-browser?do=show&vidid=X6glZHPucvc

24. NVIVO
Classifications are holders for different sets of
attributes. A project may need a classification
for people, another one for places and another
for organisations
Classification

25. NVIVO
Create classification (Step 1)
1. Click on the
Classification
from the
navigation pane
2. Choose Node
Classification
3. Right click on the
node
classifications
area
4. Click New
Classification

26. NVIVO
This will bring up
the New
Classification
dialog box
• There are
already defined
attributes
1. Click on the Add
one, select one
of them, and
then click OK
Create classification (Step 1 continued)

27. NVIVO
• The
classification is
added to the
project
Create classification (Step 1 continued)

28. NVIVO
1. Right click on an
attributes
2. Choose Attribute
Prosperities
Attribute Properties

29. NVIVO
This displays the
Attributes
Properties dialog
box
The name of the
attribute can be
changed in the
General tab
Attribute Properties

30. NVIVO
The attribute value
ranges are set from
the Values tab
1. Click on the
Values tap
2. Click on Add and
add the
information
Adding values to the attributes

31. NVIVO
Adding values to the attributes

32. NVIVO
Create classification (step2)
1. Click on Node in
the navigation
pane
2. Right click on Node
3. Click New Folder
4. Create a sub-folder
5. Give it name
(Participants/scho
ols/organisations)
6. Click OK

33. NVIVO
Create classification (step2 continued)
1. Click on the new
created sub-
folder
2. Right click on
the sub-folder
area
3. Click New Node
4. Give it a name
5. Click OK

34. NVIVO
1. Click on
Attribute Values
2. Display
Classification
list
3. Select
Participants
from the list
Create classification (step2 continued)

35. NVIVO
Create classification (step2 continued)
1. Select the
values

36. NVIVO
Create classification (step2 continued)
1. Click Node
Classification
Sheet

37. NVIVO
Day one (Objectives achieved)
• Introduction to principles which underpin the
use of NVivo in qualitative data analysis in a
range of contexts
• Creating new project (create the structure of
your project)
• Managing literature review
• Managing Data

38. NVIVO
Day two (aims)
• Memos, annotation and links
• Creating nodes
• Coding to new nodes
• Queries
• Creating report
• Creating models
• Visualising: Chart

39. NVIVO
All the best of luck
Hanadi Khadawardi
hak1g10@soton.ac.uk
hanadikhadawardi@gmail.com