Managing Your Qualitative Data with NVivo
Join this workshop for an introduction to NVivo, a software offered for free through the Penn Libraries, which can help you work with qualitative data by managing your files and analysis.
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February 3, 2026, 4:00pm -
5:00pm
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Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
If you are working with qualitative data, such as focus groups, interviews, videos, even open-ended survey questions, you need a dashboard to help you manage your files and analysis. The qualitative data analysis software NVivo could save you time. Best of all, it is available for free from the Penn Libraries virtual lab.
- What you will learn in this session:
- The benefits of using the software
- Best practices for organizing a project
- Getting started in qualitative coding
- How to perform basic queries
- Tools for organizing your ideas.
- Prerequisites:
- Some familiarity with qualitative research is helpful.
- No prior experience with NVivo required.
- Software required:
- Information about accessing NVivo through our Virtual Lab will be sent out to registrants before the class.
- About the Instructor:
- Lynda Kellam, PhD