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Introducing QDA Miner 2026
Introducing QDA Miner 2026: Elevating Qualitative Analysis with Smarter AI Assistance We are pleased to announce the release of QDA Miner 2026. This version represents a continuation of our effort to combine human expertise with more flexible, AI-assisted tools. Key Highlights of QDA Miner 2026 Smarter AI & Validation Interacting with your data is now […]
Introducing WordStat 2026
Introducing WordStat 2026: Smarter AI, Clearer Validation, and Deeper Insights We are pleased to announce the release of WordStat 2026 (version 2026.0.1). This new version represents a significant step forward in our commitment to providing powerful, transparent, and user-friendly text analysis tools. In an era where AI is becoming ubiquitous, WordStat 2026 continues to bridge […]
Data Privacy and Generative AI:The Truth About Common Security Promises
For many people and organizations, data privacy isn’t just a preference, it’s non-negotiable. Beyond preventing their information from training future AI models, they need absolute assurance that sensitive data is never exposed to others, not even for a moment. When working with text data, whether in research, business, or social impact projects, trust in how […]
Are CAQDAS tools appropriate for large datasets?
Traditional Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) tools were designed for small qualitative research projects. However, the advent of the internet and the trend toward digitalization have significantly increased the amount of data available to qualitative researchers. Social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), review sites (TripAdvisor, Yelp, etc.), product reviews (on Amazon and other e-commerce […]
Is Sentiment Analysis in Qualitative Data Analysis Software Accurate?
We saw in our previous blog that QDA Miner and WordStat were much more scalable and quicker than other CAQDAS desktop tools. These tools nevertheless offers text analysis techniques designed to handle large datasets, such an automatic sentiment analysis and automatic theme extraction. This second blog aims to assess the quality of sentiment analysis engines […]
Introducing WordStat 2024
Provalis Research is pleased to announce the release of WordStat 2024. This new version implement an important speed improvement on the initial text processing. On large numbers of small documents, it can up to 3 times faster than before. WordStat 2024 also offers several new features such as: A new data transformation feature using WordStat […]
Introducing QDA Miner 2023
Provalis Research’s qualitative text analysis software Provalis Research is pleased to announce the release of QDA Miner 2023. This version includes several new features and is available for free to all QDA Miner 6.0 users with an active annual or three-year subscription. For holders of perpetual licenses, you can upgrade to one-year or three-year licenses of QDA […]
Join Provalis at Big Data AI Paris 2023!
We’re excited to announce our participation at Big Data AI Paris 2023, where you can connect with Provalis and explore our latest innovations! Save the dates – September 25th and 26th – and find us at Booth B30. Admission is entirely FREE. Join Provalis at Big Data AI Paris 2023 and discover the new features […]
Join Provalis at Big Data LDN 2023, London, U.K
We’re delighted to announce our participation at Big Data LDN 2023, where you can join Provalis for an exciting showcase of our latest innovations! Mark your calendars for September 20th and 21st, and make your way to stand 744. The best part? Participation is entirely FREE. At our booth, you’ll have the opportunity to explore […]
Provalis Research at Academy of Management Annual Conference, Boston
Date: August 4-8 Location: Boston, MA We are thrilled to announce our participation in the highly anticipated Academy of Management Annual Conference, taking place in Boston from August 4th to August 8th. This year’s conference revolves around the theme of “Putting the Worker Front and Center“. Visit us at booth #116 during the conference to […]
Text Analytics for Business: Ignore it at Your Peril
In today’s digital age, businesses are generating vast amounts of text-based data every hour. This includes customer feedback, social media comments, employee comments, product reviews, internal emails, operation reports, incident reports, etc. Organizations have text data that can provide valuable insights but are they taking full advantage of this resource? Probably not. If not, they […]
Provalis Research Releases QDA Miner Lite 3.0
Provalis Research is pleased to announce the release of QDA Miner Lite 3.0. QDA Miner Lite is one of the most popular Free qualitative software. It is currently used by tens of thousands of people around the world. QDA Miner Lite is a scaled-down version of QDA Miner 6, a mixed method qualitative data analysis software. […]
We are hiring!
Research Assistant Position. Are you passionate about unlocking the value of data? Do you have at least four years of experience in research and strong knowledge of research methodology, statistics/mathematics/numerical data analysis ? Then join our research team and build your potential! See the job description          
Provalis Research Releases WordStat 2023
New enhanced topic modeling features and significantly faster performance Provalis Research, a leader in text mining software, has just released the latest version of its text mining, content analysis software—WordStat 2023. WordStat 2023, represents a significant step forward in the application of word sense disambiguation to topic models. Our unique topic enrichment feature has undergone […]
A Quantitative Analysis of Media Coverage of COVID 19
  Covid 19 has presented extraordinary challenges to almost everyone around the world and to almost all facets of life including: health care, the economy, personal interactions, education, transportation, supply-chain, mental health, law enforcement to name just a few. One of the crucial elements in dealing with a pandemic that affects all aspects of daily […]
We are hiring!
Research Assistant Position. Are you passionate about unlocking the value of data? Do you have at least four years of experience in research and strong knowledge of research methodology, statistics/mathematics/numerical data analysis ? Then join our research team and build your potential! See the job description          
Provalis Research Lunch and Learn March 1, 2022
Please join us for our next Lunch and Learn event. The topic is Managing Project Risk Using the Voice of the Team (VoT) and Text Analytics. Dr. John Aaron demonstrates a formalized method of managing risks on projects by routinely soliciting risk statements from project team members. This approach relies heavily on text analytics. It […]
WordStat 9.0.6 Updates Improved Performance and New features
WordStat 9 was released in June 2021 we are regularly upgrading different elements and adding new features to the software. Several new features have been added to the topic modeling features of WordStat 9.0.5. A new matrix allows one to get the top topic terms. This matrix, as well as the term-by-topic probability matrix, can now be […]
QDA Miner 6.0.9 New Updates
There are new improvements to QDA Miner 6 in version 6.0.9. QDA Miner 6.0 was introduced in September 2020. The most recent updates include an improved feature to remove unnecessary carriage returns and hyphens. Previously limited to a single document or a text selection, with this new feature it is now possible to apply such a correction to […]
Update to Windows 11 and Provalis Research software
Microsoft is currently rolling out its latest version of Windows, Windows 11. This is the successor to Windows 10. As with any new software rollout there will be some bumps along the way. Windows 10, while not bug free, has been with us for 5 years. If you are using a PC and updating […]
Saudi Trolling Campaign Against Jamal Khashoggi
Analyzing Arabic with WordStat WordStat text mining software can help you analyze more than 60 languages including; Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russia, Turkish and Arabic. Even though the information is available on our website, we are often asked by prospective customers about WordStat’s languages capabilities beyond the obvious ones like English and the main European languages. […]
Narrative Analysis: What’s in a Story?
What is Narrative Analysis? Narratives can come from almost anything; interviews, books, blogs, journals, diaries, autobiographies, podcasts, videos, audio recordings, anywhere someone is telling a story. Narrative analysis is the technique of using those narratives to address a research question, to examine business issues, to understand or develop public policy, etc.[1] It is a form […]
How were people of different genders treated during COVID-19?
An analysis of Twitter Data Using WordStat More and more researchers are using social media as a means to try to understand or explain the impact of events and social policy on society at large or on different targeted groups. We know anecdotally, personally and from media reports the Covid-19 pandemic has had different effects […]
Running QDA Miner and WordStat on M1-Based Macs
Intel-based Macs (2006-2020) Up until the end of last year, several options were available to run QDA Miner, WordStat or SimStat on Mac computers. Since 2006, Apple computers came equipped with Intel chips, the same chips used in PCs. One could even remove the MacOS and transform an Apple computer into a pure Windows machine […]
Why People Hoarded Toilet Paper at the Beginning of the Pandemic ?
A text analytics study of Twitter data using Wordstat 8 We have all heard the stories about people around the world stocking up on utilitarian goods such as toilet paper, soap, disinfectant, and other products at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. News reports showing barren store shelves brought the situation home and created the […]
Literature Review of Published Papers on Covid-19 using a Text Analysis Software: QDA Miner or WordStat
  Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has been with us now for more than a year and it is likely to remain in some form for many months to come. Researchers haven’t wasted anytime in looking into the impacts of the pandemic on many, many fields including health care, mental health, the news media, social media, […]
Workshop: Introduction to Content Analysis with WordStat
Provalis Research in collaboration with the Mixed Methods International Research Association – Caribbean Chapter (MMIRA-CC) will give a FREE 3-hour workshop on content analysis, a powerful deductive technique for text analysis. The workshop will be held online, Friday, February 26, from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm Eastern Time. Content analysis approach allows analysts and researchers […]
A Text Analysis of Donald Trump’s Use of Religious Language
  In the 2020 presidential election, most exit polls showed Donald Trump largely holding on to his support among white evangelicals with approximately 81% support essentially the same as in 2016 (AP VoteCast). Trump saw a drop in the white Catholic vote to Biden, who is Catholic, but gained among Catholic Hispanics. Trump held this […]
Text Analysis in Human Resources: Competencies and Open-Ended Question Responses
Text analytics and text mining have many uses in human resources. There is one main reason, there is a lot of text-based communication in almost every organization; employee surveys, performance reviews general employee feedback, resumes, “town hall” meetings, social media, and so on. HR departments realize that regularly analyzing and tracking this communication can improve […]
Text Analytics: Build or Buy?
Build or buy? This is a question we run into often. Why should I buy your text mining product or something similar from one of your competitors when I can build it myself? Is there an easy answer to this question? Maybe not easy, but we think once you look at the different factors in […]
QDA Miner 6 Powers Businesses with New Qualitative Analysis Capabilities
With the new qualitative content analysis functions of Provalis Research’s QDA Miner, market research firms and marketing analysts can shorten the analysis process and gain deeper client experience (CX) insights. Provalis Research, the leading provider of text analytics solutions, announces the release of version 6 of QDA Miner. The latest release of this qualitative content […]
Using Text Mining to Suggest What’s Next for Travel after Covid-19
We all know that Covid-19 has decimated the travel industry. Most experts believe it will take years before travel returns to 2019 levels. What will it take to get there? In their paper Ugur & Akbiyik (2020) use text mining to look for some of the potential answers. The paper uses data from early in […]
Content Marketing and Social Media Communities
Content marketing is a strategic marketing method to develop valuable and relevant brand content to a target audience. It is not about pushing products but about relating and sharing stories to build relationships and connect with specific consumers. Content marketing has been used for years. There are many examples of specially targeted publications that were […]
Accessing Technology’s Ability to Control Covid 19 Using Text Mining
The Covid 19 virus has been with us since late 2019 but only spread into a pandemic in early 2020. That is just seven months ago. Since then there have been thousands of journal articles, news reports, editorials, reports, commentaries, blogs and all other matter of text documents dealing with the virus, its spread and […]
Using Content Analysis Software in Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
Bibliometrics and scientometrics often involve the monitoring of research, the assessment of the scientific contribution of authors, journals, specific works, or citations as well as the analysis of the dissemination process of scientific knowledge. The discipline has grown rapidly over the last 10-20 years. One of the reasons is the advent of readily available computer […]
The Hiller Communication Vagueness Scales An Applied Researcher’s Perspective
John Ford Public Sector Research Psychologist The author can be reached at johnford514@yahoo.com This is the second of two Blogs on the Hiller Dictionary. The first one is titled Hiller Vagueness Dictionary: A Content Analysis Dictionary that Keeps on Giving The Hiller Communication Vagueness scales are useful measures of document clarity because they use vocabulary […]
Hiller Vagueness Dictionary: A Content Analysis Dictionary that Keeps on Giving
This is the first of two Blogs on the Hiller Vagueness Dictionary It all started back in the late sixties and early seventies when J.H. Hiller and his collaborators wrote a series of papers exploring communication vagueness. Back in those early days they used computer-assisted content analysis to analyze lectures, students papers and presentations to […]
Deux webinars sur l’analyse sémantique dans le cadre de l’événement “Spring Box, 100% en ligne, 100% Market Research”
Si vous désirez adopter l’analyse sémantique dans vos études marketing, voici deux webinars qui pourront vous intéresser ! Ils sont présentés par Normand Péladeau, CEO de Provalis Research et expert en analyse sémantique. Webinar 1 Analyse de données textuelles : approche qualitative ou machine learning?? Un faux dilemme Beaucoup de solutions d’analyse sémantique reposent essentiellement […]
Lunch and Learns
Starting Thursday, June 11, we intend to hold a series of “Lunch and Learns” for QDA Miner or WordStat. The schedule is posted on our website. We have scheduled one a week until the end of June. There is no charge to attend. The events will feature our trainers as hosts. They will provide a […]
Content Analysis of Media Reporting on Protests Following the Death of George Floyd.
How is the media covering the death of George Floyd and the resulting protests? While we are still in the midst of the protests which are continuing across the U.S. and around the world we thought it would be of interest to examine how several media organizations are covering the event and how they compare […]
Covid 19 Update
We trust that you are well and staying safe during these challenging times. Our team in Montreal is working from home as mandated by the government until at least May 4. We are working together providing regular services to all our customers including support, developing new features of the software, doing demos for prospective customers, […]
Coding Images on Instagram with QDA Miner – Qualitative Data Analysis Software
In this Blog we are highlighting papers authored with the use of our qualitative data analysis software QDA Miner and our content analysis and text mining software WordStat. This post features a paper where the authors use visual content analysis by employing QDA Miner to code images of sculpture taken by tourists and posted on […]
Text Analytics in Crime Analysis and International Justice
Dr Uwe Ewald Director of the International Justice Analysis Forum Uwe Ewald is the director of the International Justice Analysis Forum. IJA-Forum offers support in evidentiary analysis required for complex (international) crime cases, based on its expert network and roster of analysts and researchers. He started using qualitative data analysis software QDA Miner and the […]
Horses of Many Different Colors with WordStat
  To paraphrase the theme song of a 1960s U.S. TV show Mr. Ed, A horse is a horse of course, of course, and no one can find so many horses unless, of course, you are using WordStat! (inspired by original lyrics by Jay Livingston). See Video on YouTube. WordStat and QDA Miner software have […]
Interview with Lara Gautier
In this Blog we will be introducing you to different people who use Provalis Research software in their work. We hope this will give users and potential users of the software an idea of the type of work people are doing and the capabilities of the software. Our first profile is of Lara Gautier who […]
Using WordStat and the LIWC Dictionary to Examine Supreme Court Briefs
  Framing is an active, evolving process to construct meaning and the evolution of frames reflects change in social movement or among activists. (Benford and Snow (2000)). Framing allows people to make sense of their world or events by putting it into context. In their paper Opposition to Abortion Then and Now: How Amicus Briefs […]
Fox News on Coronavirus: A Change in Tone but Still Blaming the Media and the Democrats!
The media and the Democrats have never been popular with Fox News which many would argue is a large part of its appeal. Even with a global pandemic threatening the country not much has changed. Of course, this is something the mainstream media writes about and comments on with regularity. Lee Moran from Huffington Post […]
How We Analyzed U.S. Primary Debates with WordStat
The 2020 Democratic primary elections are underway, and ‘Super Tuesday’ has put Biden in the lead following endorsements by withdrawn candidates Buttigieg and Klobuchar. You may have seen our tweet, showcasing the potential of text analytics to describe the debates and the candidates, in this case via a deviation table and correspondence analysis plot. We […]
Using Content Analysis to Examine Regional Characteristics of Wine
Blackcurrent, blueberry, pancetta, chestnut, spicey, crisp, complex, oxidized. What do all these words have in common? They were used by “civilians” and experts to describe wines in three regions of Australia and Bordeau, France. In their paper Using Content Analysis to Characterise the Sensory Typicity and Quality Judgements of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon Wines, Lira Souza […]
QDA Training in Africa and Canada: Lessons Learned
  I have been using the qualitative data analysis software QDA Miner since 2015. I used it multiple times for my doctoral research in global public health. It was very useful for coding my interview transcriptions and a variety of policy documents related to my PhD research topic. In addition, thanks to the handy “Code […]
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