

Nodes represent themes, places, people or other areas of interest. Node structure is present in the List Viewof Nvivo. The present article aims to bring forth the following elements: They are formed after completing the coding of all the transcripts, manually or automatically. While the former organize codes in a hierarchical structure, the latter is free-standing, not having any associations with a structured framework of themes or concepts. However, they can be easily retrieved, organised, flexible, delete, alter or merge with another node at any given stage.

They act like ‘sticky notes’ referring to particular themes or topic.

Divya Dhuria & Priya Chetty on July 19, 2017Ī computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) like Nvivo enables researchers to process qualitative data systematically by breaking the responses into nodes.
