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Google Sheets mode

An opt in way to open a coding sheet straight from Google Sheets with its link, for non-sensitive data only.

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In more detail

The usual way into Themescape is to download your tabs as CSV files and load them. Google Sheets mode skips the download for data that is safe to share. You paste the sheet's own link into the viewer and press Connect, and your browser fetches the sheet straight from Google. Themescape's servers never see it.

The viewer reads the sheet once, when you press Connect, and reads the Data and Settings tabs only. For it to work, the sheet's sharing is set to Anyone with the link, and anyone with that link can open every tab while it is shared. The Google Sheets mode is opt in, for non-sensitive data only.

In Themescape

Use it for teaching datasets, pilots or public material. Interview transcripts and anything confidential belong in CSV files, which never leave your machine. Once the map is open, set the sheet's General access back to Restricted.

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The viewer with a theme selected, its codes around it and its definition in the panel. Sample data.

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ThemescapeCoding templateThe Themescape spreadsheet, a Google Sheet or Excel workbook with one row per coded quote, that the viewer reads to draw your map.Read the entryThemescapeProgress fileThe files the viewer saves to your computer so you can carry on where you left off. Themescape keeps no copy of your project.Read the entryThematic analysisParticipantA person who took part in a study and whose words or responses form part of the dataset, identified in analysis by a pseudonym or code.Read the entryThemescapeBuild modeA Parent mode, in beta, for turning a figure style into a finished figure, reshaping it and exporting it.Read the entryThematic analysisCandidate themeA provisional theme generated in phase 3, held loosely while the researcher reviews whether it works against the coded data and the whole dataset.Read the entryThematic analysisCodeA short label the researcher gives to a segment of data to capture something meaningful about it. Codes are the building blocks themes are developed from.Read the entry

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