NOTE You cannot create your own subfolders within the Relationships and Matrices folders. You can use folders to set the scope of a query-for example, run a Text Search query on all the material in the Survey questions and responses folder. Just like sources, you can organize nodes in folders to suit the way you work: Top of Page Organizing nodes into folders When you open a node that has aggregation turned on, you can see all content coded at the node and content coded at the direct child nodes.įor more information, refer to Aggregate nodes (gather all content in a parent node). This column is not visible by default-you can add the column to your node List View. The icon in the Aggregate column indicates that aggregation is turned on. For example, you could analyze how each town is adapting to climate change or turn on aggregation for the node Adaptation to climate change and see how all towns are adapting: When working with nodes in a hierarchy, you can gather all the material in child nodes and roll it up into the parent node. Top of Page Aggregating nodes (gather all content in the parent node) If there is no logical connection between your nodes (or perhaps these connections are not yet apparent) you can just add nodes at the top level of the hierarchy: You can organize these nodes in hierarchies-moving from general topics at the top (the parent node) to more specific topics (child nodes) Nodes are containers for your themes, people, places, organizations or other areas of interest. Refer to About node matrices for more information.
You cannot code at the nodes in a node matrix.
You create node matrices by querying your data using Matrix Coding queries. Node Matrices are cross-tabulations of nodes that shows how the contents of different nodes relate to each other. Refer to About relationships for more information. For example, you could create a relationship node to record the relationship between two of the case nodes in your project (perhaps two people are married to each other). Relationships are nodes that define the connection between two project items. In Navigation View, under Nodes, there are folders for nodes, relationships and matrices-relationships and matrices are special types of nodes. Then when you open the node (by double-clicking it in List View) you can see all the references in one place. You gather the references by 'coding' sources such as interviews, focus groups, articles or survey results.įor example, while exploring your sources (documents, datasets, pictures, video or audio) you could code any content related to 'illegal fishing practices' at the node illegal fishing. Creating relationships and node matricesĪ node is a collection of references about a specific theme, place, person or other area of interest.Creating nodes for people, places and other entities.Creating nodes for the themes in your source materials.Aggregating nodes (gather all content in the parent node).