User:Struc~enwiki/Weft QDA

Weft QDA is a program for Computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) created by a social anthropologist named Alex Fenton in 2003-2004 as a tool for his own academic work. The software is designed to help analyze qualitative data in the form of text, based on a similar conception of qualitative data analysis as most commercial packages, in that it assists research by organizing textual data, coding it and retrieving coded segments. This "code and retrieve" functionality resembles that of many similar packages but it contains less numerous additional tools such as visual model-building with codes or geo-tagging.

The creator's websites states two motivations for creating this program: he wanted an inexpensive solution and a simple product, mentioning the cost of proprietary packages, and that the implement "increasingly baroque and obscure features in order to differentiate themselves and justify their cost".