Note: You can find your NVivo version (including NVivo bit version) on the 'About' screen in the software. To access this screen in NVivo 10 for Windows - click.

We recommend you install NVivo for Mac version 10.2.2 If you hold a current NVivo 10 for Windows or NVivo for Mac license key, please follow the instructions below to update your NVivo for Mac software. NVivo for Mac Click on the following link to download the updated software: • To update NVivo for Mac: • Make sure the NVivo application is closed before you install the new version. • Locate and double-click the NVivo.dmg file that you downloaded.

• Drag the NVivo icon into your Applications folder. • During the installation, if you are asked whether you wish to replace the older version of NVivo, click Replace. Serial number.

NCapture for Chrome This add-on can be used with NVivo for Mac. It can be installed from the Chrome Store.

Use NCapture for Chrome to gather web pages and online PDFs. Then import them into NVivo for Mac as PDF sources. If you have questions about updating your NVivo software, please.

Qualitative research within pharmacy education is increasing in popularity. This type of research affords rich description of data, yet quantitatively trained researchers are often uncomfortable with this type of data analysis. NVivo 10, released in 2012 by QSR International, can assist researchers carrying out this type of research by offering easy to use tools for organization and analysis of such data. Let me answer the question that everyone must be asking themselves: “Is there a magic button I can click to make the program code the data for me?” Unfortunately, NVivo software cannot do all of the work for us. While some automatic coding functions exist within this program, the brain behind the process is yours.

What this program does offer is an easy to use format to help you sort, organize, and classify data until you find the answer to the research question you are seeking. For a complex program, NVivo is very user friendly. The software workspace is fashioned after the Microsoft Office interface, so it will immediately look familiar to users of Outlook, with a panel to the left containing folders and a larger panel to the right containing a project outline above and detailed documents below. The task ribbon permits quick completion of tasks and offers a “wizard” to run queries and create reports.

Qualitative research encourages varied sources of information including interviews, field notes, video recordings, images, documents, press clippings, and photographs. NVivo allows researchers to collect, organize, and analyze these varied data types.

Documents can be imported from Microsoft Word (.doc and.docx), Portable Document Format (.pdf), rich text (.rtf), and plain text (.txt) formats. Almost any form of audio, photo, and video files can be imported along with Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. A cool new feature of version 10 supports the use of Web pages, social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter), YouTube, and SurveyMonkey to directly import data. Bibliographic references can even be imported from EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks, and Zotero to help manage literature reviews. This wide range of data importation makes this software attractive to researchers using various methods of data collection. Coding data around themes is a key characteristic of qualitative research.

NVivo labels these storage containers as “nodes.” Nodes can represent anything that the researcher wants them to be and grants easy organization and reorganization of themes in the data. One of my favorite features is the “drag and drop” function that allows for quick coding of sections of text. You can simply highlight a section of text and move it into a node of your choosing. Highlighting of previously coded pieces reminds you of work you have already completed and supports reflection of your work to monitor emerging themes.

You can keep track of your thoughts by creating memos and annotations linked to the data to facilitate insight into your research. Running analyses or queries with NVivo is actually a fun task. The program offers packaged queries and reports including word search and word frequency options, but new queries can be created with the help of a wizard that walks you through each step of query implementation.

Creating effortless, high-quality pictorial representation of data might be my favorite feature of this software. Researchers can choose to use word clouds and words trees to display frequently appearing words in text and provide surrounding context to the data. Bar, column, and pie charts can be customized to match your style, and cluster analyses can be run to compare and contrast coding patterns. The visual capabilities of this program provide researchers a powerful tool to display their findings. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. Logs of all events and changes are tracked which accommodates multiple researcher collaboration within a single NVivo project. Inter-rater reliability can be calculated with the click of a button, which makes this software ideal when comparing coding by multiple researchers.