PyQDA 0.1.1 November 2013
Depends on Python 2.7 and PyQt4
Tested on: Ubuntu 13.10
For Pdf importing, pyPdf needs to be installed.
For network graph plots python-igraph needs to be installed.
I did have some problems with unicode conversions, so the plainer the text the better. I have not tried to use PyQDA with other language/character sets. I have also not tested the software on othe operating systems. It has been tested on Ubuntu.
There is an option in the RQDA database for image coding but this has not been implemented yet.
I used RQDA for qualitative analysis of survey responses. I really appreciate the work of Ronggui Huang and Zhang Gehao for developing RQDA. See http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/
RQDA worked well for my purposes. However, during an Ubuntu upgrade the software stopped working. It relied on igraphfix which was not installed in the upgrade (the fix was to install igraphfix: sudo apt-get build-dep igraph).
I thought, well this was a good opportunity to use and develop my Python and PyQT programming skills. So I decided to write this Python software to utilise the Sqlite RQDA database.
I hope PyQDA is useful to others and can complement the RQDA project.
Colin Curtain
Ronggui Huang and Zhang Gehao for creating RQDA.
Mike MacCana for the source code for the docx module.
User: bit4 on stackoverflow who presented the source code to convert html to text.
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Copyright (c) 2013 Colin Curtain
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