Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package

Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap) is an R package for computer assisted qualitative data analysis, particularly quantitative discourse analysis, transcript analysis and natural language processing. Qdap is installable from, and runs within, the R system.

Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap)
Developer(s)Bryan Goodrich, Dason Kurkiewicz, Tyler Rinker
Stable release
2.4.2 / September 27, 2020 (2020-09-27)[1]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS
TypeQualitative data analysis, Discourse analysis
LicenseGPL2 license
Websitecran.r-project.org/web/packages/qdap/

Qdap is a tool for quantitative analysis of qualitative transcripts and therefore provides a bridge between quantitative and qualitative research approaches. It is designed for transcript analysis, but its features overlap with natural language processing and text mining.

Its features include:

  • tools for the preparation of transcript data
  • frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentences, turns of talk, syllables
  • aggregation using grouping variables
  • word extracting and visualization
  • statistical analysis.

For higher level statistical analysis and visualization of text, qdap is integrated with R and offers integration with other R packages.

Alternatives
  • KH Coder (Windows, Linux, macOS) for quantitative content analysis and text mining.[2]

See also

References
  1. "qdap: Bridging the Gap Between Qualitative Data and Quantitative Analysis". The Comprehensive R Archive Network. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  2. "KH Coder website". Retrieved 18 February 2017.
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