Is a qualitative analysis tool that's…
- Local
- Secure
- Hotkey-first
## Start with WHO?[^1]
I, Alexis, want a better coding tool for my qualitative analysis.
...I also want to learn Swift.
Question: WHO?
Answer: Me, Alexis Rondeau.
Question: Who are you?
Answer: I'm many things, but in this context, I'm a qualitative researcher.
- As a...
- Qualitative researcher in the health-industry
- I want to...
- Code transcripts
- easier
- faster
- and Compare interviewee segments
- clearer
- So that...
- I can deliver
- shared themes
- differences between segments
- hot quotes
- engaging narrative
- clearer findings
- deeper insights
- more engaging narratives
- and faster reports
- best-informed recommendations
- Because...
- my clients want to
- make better
- more informed
- decisions
- look good in front of their stakeholders
- impress their teams
- impress their boss
- prove their value
- secure their employment
- make money
- pay for expenses
- save money
- invest money
- to keep their family healthy and happy
### Key Benefits
Unit/Metrics:
- "Time to Code"
- "Time to Surprise"
- "Time to Insight"
### MVP: "An Insights Development Environment (IDE), for you, forever."
- Based on [[Obsidian Landing Page]]
- "An Insights Development Environment (IDE)"
- Moderating interviews is such a good time to really meet someone on eye-level
- We love connecting with people
- Qualitative analysis is where the magic happens
- Where you discover and develop insights from your interviews
- Once the interviews are over and the transcripts have arrived, you hit a brick-wall.
- It's hard though without good tools
- Your IDE should help you spend more quality time with your transcripts
- In DeepDive, reading, coding, segmenting and analysing your interview transcripts is frictionless.
- Take a first pass of coding with alias-coding,
- review and dive deeper,
- highlight quotes with a single keyboard stroke,
- develop your coding book,
- pepper in your segments and
- marvel at what patterns emerge
- "For you"
- Coding interview transcripts is incredibly personal.
- You want to connect with your interview partners after you've spoken with them
- You want to also move fast and get into flow quickly
- You also want to keep your transcripts secure
- And you want to deliver your report ahead of time for fine-tuning with your team
- DeepDive is...
- Native Mac application
- it's much faster than any web-based application
- It hooks into your computer directly
- It's built to be 100% Customizable
- 26 Hotkeys that you can assign to your codes for speed-of-thought coding
- 5 coding color schemes to make it easy to parse at a glance
- Limitless coding books per project so you can fine-tune your insights
- Limitless segmenting of your interviews so you can slice and dice during analysis
- Built-in "Auto-Coding" that automatically tags
- AI-Coding – Your DeepDive has a local AI engine built-in that learns as you code your transcripts and over time matures to the point of assisting you
- "Forever"
- "In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary formats and data lock-in."
- With DeepDive, your data is stored locally and will not ever be held hostage by a cloud-provider
- Export your coded transcripts anytime to fully portable Excel or CSV
- CSV export also gives you the unparalleled interoperability to use any kind of sync, encryption, or data processing that works with plain text files.
- Create transcripts
- Create codings
- Tag fragments
- By mouse
- By keyboard
- See fragment stats by code
- Auto-code
- Add aliases to codes
- Remove auto-codes
- Segment transcript
- Show strong sentiment hints
#### Like Delve Tool but better because...
- No shortcuts
- No keyboard navigation
- Webbased
- No merging of fragments
- No auto-coding
#### Spreadsheet
- Navigation
- Fonts
## How
- A blazing fast, hotkey-first, secure MacOS App
- [[SwiftUI Learning Resources]]
- [[Custom CoreData Integration Spike]]
- [[Design Resources]]
### Something like this...
#### iA Writer as Gold Standard
![[Screenshot 2021-04-01 at 11.38.50.png]]
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- [[Development of the DeepDive]]
## Backlog
- ![[Screenshot 2021-04-09 at 11.46.31.png]]
## Notes
- ![[Screenshot 2021-04-08 at 16.04.27.png]]
- ![[Screenshot 2021-04-08 at 16.04.36.png]]
## People
- [[DeepDive – Internal Demo]]
## Related
- https://github.com/EngaugeAI/engauge
- https://matomo.org/
- https://perfect.org/
[^1]: [[Start with WHO not How]]