Documentation
This is the complete user manual that ships inside QualiLens. It documents all screens, all controls, and the principles behind each choice the application asks you to make.
New to QualiLens? Read Getting Started, then follow the Walkthrough, which takes one dataset end to end through thematic analysis.
Starting an analysis? Read Choosing a Method, then the chapter for the method you chose, then The Wizard as you work through the five steps.
Checking a finished run? Read The Coded-Source Reader, which is where the coding is checked against the documents it came from.
Something went wrong? Go to Runs and Recovery or Troubleshooting.
Chapters
Getting started
| Getting Started | Prerequisites, first launch, API keys, ffmpeg, where files live on disk |
| The Wizard | The five wizard steps, all controls, what each Continue button does |
| Choosing a Method | The five methods compared, what each one produces, how to choose |
Methods
| Grounded Theory | Setup options, stages, checkpoints, output |
| Thematic Analysis | Setup options, stages, checkpoints, output |
| Content Analysis | Codebook handling, group comparison |
| Framework Analysis | Deductive coding, emergent candidates, the matrix |
| Literature Synthesis | Extraction table, corpus-only citation |
Using the app
| Checkpoints | The review panels, searching and sorting, bulk merges |
| Coded-Source Reader | Reading a transcript with its coding, auditing what was missed |
| Runs and Recovery | Run states, progress, resume, cancel, branching |
| Reports | Interactive report, figures, matrices, Word export, reporting |
Reference
| Troubleshooting | All failures the app can show you and what to do about it |
| Data and Privacy | What leaves the machine, what Delete deletes, what to tell an IRB |
| Walkthrough | One dataset taken end to end, with decisions at each checkpoint |
| Glossary | The app's vocabulary and the status badges you will see |