What is QSR NUD*IST?
Before we continue – we’d better explain that NUD*IST is a text analysis package. It allows you to “code” text files with attributes (such as the speaker, male/female, subject, etc) and then get reports such as whether more females were for or against a subject, etc. It is a tool for “theory building”. The NUD*IST acronym stands for “non-numerical unstructured data, indexing structure and theory-building”. For a full explanation please see QSR’s web pages (http://www.qsr.com.au/).
