From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2004-11-09T03:13:39+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Weft QDA - (Wx)Ruby application for qualitative data analysis

Hi

First release of Weft QDA, a software tool written in Ruby for 
qualitative data analysis. It's intended for use in various kinds of 
social science research to analyse unstructured textual data, such as 
interview transcripts, newspaper articles, ethnographic fieldnotes etc.

Windows installer & source at
http://www.pressure.to/qda/

It's written in WxRuby, so it's (in theory) cross-platform. However It's 
currently only extensively tested on windows, and there's one or two 
irritating known bugs on Linux. Haven't tried on OS X, but very happy to 
help anyone try :)

Also - thanks very much to the WxRuby people both for the port (which is 
very usable, well-featured and good to work with) and the quality of the 
support on the mailing list. Thanks also to SQLite porters (again, great 
to use), and developers of the 1.8 core & standard libraries, which made 
everything much easier.

Comments, bug reports welcome

cheers
alex