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# Attributes
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Attributes are variables associated with files, cases or journals. They can be useful to add context when interpeting your analysis. Open the Manage Attributes dialog. You can add, delete, rename and add memo notes to attributes.
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## Introduction
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QualCoder’s built-in AI features (version 3.6 and up) can assist the coding process in various ways:
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-**AI Search:** Leverage the AI's ability to quickly analyze large amounts of text to find and explore specific topics or concepts within your corpus.
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-**Search for concepts, not keywords:** QualCoder uses a combination of semantic search technologies and Large Language Models like GPT-4. As a result, you don’t need to enter exact keywords but can also search for much more abstract concepts, e.g. "changing gender roles" or "recognition in the workplace".
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-**Interpret your data interactively with the AI:** The AI not only suggests relevant data but also provides interpretation, offering a different perspective that can enrich your understanding of the data.
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# 5.1 AI Chat based analysis
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The AI Chat tab in the main window allows you to discuss certain aspects of your analysis with the AI. QualCoder provides four different types of chats:
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From the AI Chat tab, click "New > New Code Analysis Chat". In the following window, select a code or a category you want to analyze, and choose between several analytic prompts:
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-**Code summary** will give you an overview of the data associated with the selected code
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-**Analyze unexpected** will look for the most interesting, unexpected insights in you coded data
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-**Analyze differences** will examine whether there are significant differences between your empirical cases/documents with regard to the selected code.
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# Reports menu options
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* Coding reports (the main reporting function)
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If text is entered into the Search text field, only codings which contain the matching text will be presented.
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The search text also looks for matching text in memos for coded image areas and coded audio/video segments. The search text function must be used in combination with File selection, Case selection or Attribute selection.
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##Important coded text, images, segments
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There is a tick box to select only the Important codings. This is useful for quickly finding those important exemplars that you may use in a written report.
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## Attribute selection in reports
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Cohen’s Kappa is calculated based on the information in [Wikipédia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen%27s_kappa).
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This window contains three panes. The top pane is where SQL statements are entered and the bottom pane contains the results of queries. The left pane contains tables and field names. Double-clicking on a field name adds it to the SQL statement. Results can be exported to a delimited file. If you are not familiar with SQL take care as you will be able to update and delete the data as well as select data. Note: Some Unicode symbols are not converted to plain text and are ignored.
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# 6.1 Imports and exports
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This is an option under the Project Menu > Exports.
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A codebook is a list of your codes. Each code memo should detail the reasons for the purpose of each code. The codebook can be exported to a text file. The codebook also shows the frequency of the codes used (from all coders). As codes and categories are put in a tree like structure the double minus ‘–‘ indicates the subordinate codes and categories within a category.
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Import a codebook as a plain text (.txt) file or as a .csv file. Use two greater than symbols to separate category and code.
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[Rotterdam Exchange Format Initiative (REFI)](https://www.qdasoftware.org)is an open standard for exporting and importing codebooks and projects from and to different computer-aided qualitative data analysis software.
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This is now old (Feb 2021), but a user tested the importation of a REFI-QDA project file generated by QualCoder and imported into MAXQDA, Quirkos, Atlas.ti. Only text and Images were tested. A PDF of the test results is here: [Testing importation of REFI-QDA Project files into Atlas, MAXQDA, Quirkos PDF](https://qualcoder.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/refi-qda-project-import-quirkos-maxqda-atlas.pdf)
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Projects made with [RQDA](http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/) can be directly imported. All data except for file categories are imported.
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Close any opened project. Then in the Main Menu under Project click on RQDA Project import. You will be asked to create a new project- so enter a name. Then you will be asked to select the RQDA project file. QualCoder will then import the data.
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Each qualitative question answer was appended to ONE text file. Preceding the answer was additional QualCoder added text, to show which case the answer was relevant to.
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This is useful for updating text files such as blog post extract that change over time. Update a text file while attempting to keep the existing coded text segments. Select the text file that needs to be replaced and select the replacement file. Click the cogs button to run the update. This function works by finding the identical matching text in the replacement file, as it parses through the file text. It may produce erroneous coded segments.
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Select a QualCoder project to merge (source project) into the currently opened project (destination project), then click the _Run merge projects_, cogs button. **Before performing the merge, make a backup of the destination project.**
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Caution: If each project to be merged has the same coder name, e.g. 'default' then these will merge as such, and you will not be able to separate out which coder performed their own coding. This may or may not be an important consideration to your final merged project.
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-**fixed elements** (shown here in white on blue) that are defined in the source code of the application,
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These are the actual instructions that will be sent to the AI (the orange box in the image above). If you want to share your prompt with someone else, this is the most important information you will need to send over.
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4)**Prompt text**: These are the actual instructions that will be sent to the AI (the orange box in the image above). If you want to share your prompt with someone else, this is the most important information you will need to send over.
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