The Ethnograph: An Inside Look
This page shows you some screen shots from The Ethnograph, and describes some of the features and options available in The Ethnograph.
Note: This is only a partial listing of Screen Shots and Features
The Project allows you to organize your documents into different projects and child projects(sub-projects). Merge, Move, Duplicate, Delete, Backup and Restore Projects. Add Files to projects and Copy, Move and Delete individual data Files.
The Ethnograph Editor automatically formats your files, saves them as 'ETH' files, numbers and assigns them to a project - The Editor even has a spell check function! You can also copy and paste data into the Editor from your word processor or web browser
Code data using your mouse! Choose the 'code sets' option to apply a number of code words to a segment at one time. Select code words from the Master List or Family Tree.
Quick Code lets you enter one code at a time. You can apply this code to other segments with a few quick mouse clicks.
You can attach 26 memos to each line of text in a data file. Each Memo can be 32,000 characters. You can also attach 1000 memos to the data file itself and 1000 Memos to the Project itself. You can also use memos as search output, print memos with the text to which they refer, and create your own categories for memos.
List Memos shows you all the text, file and project Memos you have created. There are many ways you can filter and sort this list. You can view a memo by clicking on it.
Code words are automatically added to the code book as you code your data. Of course you can also create a code book before you start coding your data. Code words are also automatically added to the Family Tree. You can use the Family Tree to organize your code words into hierarchical groupings.
You can search for coded segments by 1)single code words, 2) multiple code words linked by 'and' or 'not', and 3) speaker/section identifiers.
You can filter your search by 1) face sheets, 2) identifier sheets, 3) identifiers, and 4) file codes.
You can generate output as 1) segments, 2) frequencies, 3) summary reports, and 4) memos.
You can search all files or only files that you select.
Segment and Summary output can be organized by code word, or by the sequence the code words occurred in each data file.
Face Sheets are characteristics of data files. You can filter a search based on the characteristics of data files
Identifier Sheets describe the characteristics of Speaker/Section Identifiers within a data file. You can filter a search based on the characteristics of speakers in a data file.
Segment Output displays the text of each segment defined by a code word used in a search. There are multiple options for displaying segments. You can attach memos to segments. You can expand the context of the segment on the screen.
Frequency Output give you frequency counts of each code word used in a search. It also gives you relative frequency percentages for each code word both within and across data files.
Summary Output displays a list of segments found for each code word in each data file. It tells you the start and stop lines, the number of lines in the segment, and cumulative line counts.
