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I really appreciate  having a nice presentation carried out by Cathy Woods. I have some experiences with Nvivo. As it is known that it is expensive to afford. In this note, I will generally evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using Nvivo.

When Cathy defined Nvivo’s layout as excel. I started to feel more comfortable. It is certainly based on the idea of Microsoft applications and tools. Most of us are used to have some familiarity with Microsoft office applications and stuffs. It is really very important advantage to have some familiarity about any digital tools. As it was conceptualized in our previous reading, I felt that I am “technology native” since I know Microsoft and I have been using it for a while.

This is a great advantage to manipulate and articulate the knowledge about Nvivo. Every correlations and relations can be constructed by using the nodes as interpretive anchors to the data and the analysis process. It is also important to have all types of the data in one place. The data might be in the forms like photos, videos, pdf and doc etc. When I think of my personal experiences, I faced with some problem with the video incompatibility. Nvivo does not allow us to work some kinds of video format. In addition to that, it is more insufficient to identify the sentences and words in the scanned documents which are saved as pdf formats. These can be listed as disadvantage of Nvivo. Memos functions are also very great features for doing more analysis every step of research processes.

My most important problem with Nvivo is that I feel more borders, lines and defined relations while coding my data.