Abstract

ANDRADE, Luiz Rafael dos Santos; LINHARES, Ronaldo Nunes  and  COSTA, António Pedro. Strategies for the use of visual representations in the analysis of qualitative data in QDAS. Práx. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.48, pp.255-276.  Epub Nov 25, 2021. ISSN 2178-2679.  https://doi.org/10.22481/praxisedu.v17i48.8807.

The so-called Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) are tools that assist the researcher in the treatment, organization, analysis, and representation of data, among others, with the purpose of supporting research analysis or scientific projects in the most diverse fields of knowledge. This article presents, through an integrative review, reflections on the strategies for the availability of visual representations in academic works that used QDAS. As a methodological procedure, the data collected between the years 2018 and 2019, from studies on Education supported by QDAS, published in Brazilian journals, with A1 quality criteria, were collected based on the Integrative Review, which allowed us to deepen the reflections of the researchers/users. of QDAS on the relationship between categorization/organization, data analysis, and data presentation together with the visual representation of data. Thus, it was intended to contribute to the theme reflections on strategies for the design of visual representations when applied to QDAS during the stages of research. From what was pointed out it was found that, when it comes to the use of QDAS as support for the visualization and analysis of qualitative data, it is necessary, initially, to consider that the integrative review allowed us to analyze that out of a universe of 2,598 articles, 70 fits and met our selection criteria, in which it was possible to verify that visual representations have the possibility to contribute in stages of scientific research and, in addition, they provide more than one strategy for their use.

Keywords : Data Visualization; Qualitative Analysis; Integrative Review..

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