Research and Evaluation Methods

• Transana Open source software for transcription and analysis of qualitative data developed by David Woods and Nicolas Sheon
• Analyzing Orphaned Transcripts in Transana by Nicolas Sheon
• Report Back from ‘CAQDAS 2007: Advances in Qualitative Computing’ Slides from Qualitative Working Group Presentation by Nicolas Sheon, May 15, 2007. See also handout.
• The Role of Sofware in Qualitative Data Analysis: A Practical Guide Slides from a Presentation to the UC Berkeley, School of Public Health Doctoral Program by Nicolas Sheon, January 16, 2008.
• Qualitative Research Methods: A Practical Guide Nicolas Sheon, November, 2006
• Guide to Digital Recording for Qualitative Analysis by Nicolas Sheon
• Overview of ATLAS.ti 5.2 by Nicolas Sheon
• Stategies for Maximizing Intercoder Reliability using ATLAS.ti by Nicolas Sheon
• Transana: Tips for ATLAS.ti Users by Nicolas Sheon, July 21, 2006
• Real time GPS Tracking with a $25 Boost Phone by Nicolas Sheon, December 2, 2008
• Coding and Annotating Media Files in Transana 2.41 slides from a training by Nicolas Sheon, March, 2010
• How to Encrypt any data using Truecrypt, a free open source program by Nicolas Sheon, 2009
• A Protocol for collecting, managing, and analyzing video and audio data approved by the UCSF Committee on Human Research by Nicolas Sheon, 2009
• Using Software to Analyze Digital Audio and Video Data slides from a training by Nicolas Sheon, 2010.
• Tales from the Bleeding Edge video of a presentation by David Woods, Kwalon 2010 Conference, Utrecht, NL, April 22, 2010.

Research and Counselor Training Projects

• Using technology to streamline client data collection and improve HIV test counseling: The PalmPal Focus Group Study in Collaboration with Glide, Native American Health Center, and City Clinic CAPS Innovative Grant, Nicolas Sheon, Principal Investigator, 2006-2007
• Process Analysis of Rapid Testing (PART) Study NICHD R-01, 2005-2008, Nicolas Sheon, Principal Investigator
• LUST & ORGASM: Rapid Testing Unit a full-length, 35 minute role play of a typical rapid HIV test session. This episode features Michael Reyes and Jason Euren and is based on sessions recorded for the PART study. This video can be used in CT trainings to generate discussion, or as material to practice using Transana for video analysis. The title of the series and the opening is loosely based on the TV series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
• Using Transana 2.20 Software for Counselor Training and Self-Supervision UARP IDEA grant proposal by Nicolas Sheon
• Theory and Practice of Client-Centered Counseling and Testing HIV InSite Knowledge-Base Chapter, Nicolas Sheon, PhD, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, June 2004
• Process Analysis of HIV Counseling and Testing (PACT) CAPS Innovative Grant in Collaboration with UCSF AIDS Health Project
• Managing Desire: HIV Prevention Strategies for the 21st Century an International Conference organized by Nicolas Sheon, April 1996
• www.managingdesire.org launched by Nicolas Sheon, April, 1997
• Ask HIVInSite Created by Nicolas Sheon, 1997
• Sacraments of Surveillance: Ethnography of an HIV Test Clinic Nicolas Sheon, Doctoral Dissertation, UC Berkeley, 1999.

The Lost Database

• Demonstrate new sequence mapping features of Transana 2.20
• Help users learn the program using real data, that are not subject to privacy issues
• Find new ways to use the sequence maps and bar charts to analyze large datasets
• Further research on Lost

See also the following links:

• Contact me to obtain Transana software.
• Download the free Divx codec so you can watch with the video
• Guide to the show's many characters
• Source of transcripts for each episode
• Society for the Study of Lost

Lost Database Blog