TAMS Analyzer - 3.61b8

I am a PhD student, who waited until the last year to take my qualitative analysis courses. I needed something that I could use right away without too much training.

In TAMS I found a carefully considered, thoroughly documented, up-to-date, and logical program that I was able to learn well enough for my first project in just a couple of hours.

One thing that impresses me about this software is that the creator took the time to make it understandable by including a tutorial. How refreshing to see a mindset of a mentor in the field of software. And so often it is in Open Source or Creative Commons that we get to breathe this fresh air. It almost gives one hope for humanity!

Thank you!

This is a fantastic qualitative analysis program. I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology at MSU and I'm using TAMS Analyzer to code all of my interviews. I have NVivo for PC, running on my Mac, and I prefer TAMS as my primary tool for coding. As a researcher with complex theoretical problems at hand, I greatly appreciate the simplicity of this software.

tams is excellent software for coding and analysis of qualitative data, bringing this capability to the Mac after many years of it being absent. I found tams after realizing that my tried and true N4 (Nud*ist) refused to run on Mac OS X, even in classic.

Tams does much of what QSR's Nud*ist N4 package does. All of the basics are certainly present -- coding, memoing, file organization, and searching. Tams has the capability for complex coding and searching, which makes it a great stand-in for Nudist. Though tams is a bit harder to learn, if you already understand the basics of coding data, you can probably dig into tams relatively quickly. I think it took me less than 30 minutes to import and start coding my own documents in at least a basic way. I also appreciate the way that Tams allows you to code text units of any length, down to even a single word. As such, the coding system allows for finer-grained coding and more flexibility than N4.

Tams isn't perfect -- at least not yet. But the developer is responsive, dedicated, and helpful, and he's already included features that I've suggested would be useful. On top of it all, this product is at least partially GPL'd. If you're doing qualitative research or data analysis on the mac, I'd recommend this app. I'm currently working on a large set of data using this program, and have found it invaluable. Learn it, use it, and provide feedback -- that's the only way it will improve.

yes...there seems a lack of software "tools" to help at least organize and catalogue this type of information.
Will be taking a look at it and hoping its worthwhile now or in later updates.
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TAMS works with Chinese characters which makes it more powerful than Filemaker 6 in this regard. It took me an hours to skim through the manual and understand its features. A truly wonderful application, Matthew Weinstein. Thanks a lot.