Qualitative data analysis tools

Taguette & Dovetail

Ania Gawlikowicz
Ioannis Konstantakopoulos
 Free and open-source tool for analysing textual data
Lets you analyse your data by highlighting crucial parts of text
and creating relevant tags for them.

Simple, straightforward and intuitive. Takes a minute to learn

how to use it.

Works both on your local computer (macOS, Windows, Linux)

and on a server.
A platform designed for analyzing customer experience, perfectly
applicable for any kind of qualitative research.

Transcribes audio and video recordings, marking the speakers and

timecodes.

Lets you highlight, create tags and find relevant parts in the
recordings.

Charts show the most frequently appearing tags.

A complex tool with a lot of features. Takes a while to explore them all.
Types of subscription
Advantages
Quite accurate transcription, divided based on the different speakers.
Notified when the transcription is ready.
Tags linked to the audio, which allows for an effortless navigation through the recording.
Categorisation of tags based on colours.
Possibility to add people on your projects.
Speech engine trained on over 50000 hours of human transcribed content across a diversity of
topics, industries and accents.
Editing options resembling Microsoft Word.
Works with any type of software (Windows, Mac, iPhones, iPads, Androids, Blackberry
devices).
Several features of different tools incorporated into one tool.
Useful for teams with a large number of members
Disadvantages
Subscription information is slightly confusing or even

misleading.
Not suitable for smaller teams.
Mistakes identified in the transcription, because of different

accents (e.g. police instead of Polish).

Free subscription allows only up to 3 hours of transcription

per month
The interface is very complex and might be overwhelming
 Studies in which Dovetail is

encountered
Not part of any studies we are aware of.

However, it can be used in any qualitative type of study to identify and keep
track of patterns that emerge across the collected data (e.g speech acts in
pragmatics, parental strategies in heritage language maintenance).
 Comparison

Allows you to work with video,

Allows you to work with text files only

audio and text files
Provides accurate transcription with

No transcription
timecodes and speakers
No text editing tools Lets you edit your text

Basic features - quick to learn Elaborate features - takes time to learn

All features available for free Subscription required for most features