ResearchWare Blog What's New in HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0

HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0 offers these new features and enhancements:"Unicode Everywhere" support for non-latin characters in Cases, Codes, Source file name paths, Annotations, and tools and features such as Autocode and Theory BuilderOptimization for 64-bit Operating Systems (including macOS 10.15 "Catalina")Support for Microsoft's DirectShow for media playback on Windows and Apple Video Foundation under macOS (replacing reliance on Quicktime)With additional stability enhancements and improvements, this release continues Researchware's commitment to quality products and customer service, while enhancing the customer experience through a variety of feature updates, improvements, and added benefits not available in prior versions. New feature: "Unicode Everywhere" New feature: 64-bit Architecture for Optimization for Catalina and other 64-bit Operating Systems HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0 is optimized for use with 64-bit operating systems, including Apple's macOS 10.15 (Catalina), and is notarized by Apple. HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0 will, of course, also run well on older macOS systems (10.0 Mavericks - 10.14 Mojave) and with Windows computer systems (Windows 7, 8.x, 10+). HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0 includes these features and enhancements introduced in HyperRESEARCH 4.0: Enhancements: The Report Builder tool now has improved layout capability, more sorting options, and the ability to export in new formats. Table-style report layout:The new Table layout presents your report in rows and columns. You can sort the report by any column by clicking the column header. (To see a report in the original layout used in previous versions of the Report Builder, choose theDocument option.) Media content in reports:Reports now include media content. Coded image and PDF image segments, a single frame from coded video segments, and coded text appear in your report, if the Coded Source Material box is checked. Sorting by code group:You can now sort code references in order by code group. If you choose this sort option, the code references appear in the same order as the codes appear in the Code Book, with each group of codes clustered together. Use this option to sort the report by code, while still respecting your code group structure. New formats for exporting reports:Document-style reports can now be exported as text, RTF, Word, or PDF files. Table-style reports can be exported as Excel (.xlsx) files. Additional report features and enhancements:You can now include the groups a code belongs to in the list of all codes or the list of filtered codes.You can also include a code's group memberships whenever a code is mentioned in a code reference.When exporting a report, Report Builder can now automatically open the report in an appropriate application. (Check the Open Exported Report box before clicking Export Report.) Enhancements: Frequency Report tool In version 4.5.0, the Frequency Report tool has been completely re-imagined, with new charts, lists, and table views to help you visualize and analyze code frequencies throughout your study. Charts and graphs of code frequencies:In the new Graph view, you can view code frequencies in a variety of chart styles: bar chart, column(vertical bar) chart, pie chart, or line graph. Codes are color-coded. To include a legend with each code's color and number of occurrences, check theShow Legend box. Code group frequency breakdowns:In the new Tree view, you can see codes listed by group, as they appear in the code book. Each group and subgroup includes the total frequency for codes in the group. Code cloud view:The Cloud view shows a Code Cloud (like a word cloud), with each code sized in proportion to how often it is used in your study: Use the Showing slider on the left side of the window to adjust how many codes are shown in the cloud. Matrix view of codes and cases:The new Table view shows a code matrix, displaying each code's frequency in each case. Codes are shown in the first column, and there is a column for each case showing the number of times the code was used in that case. The Subtotal column on the far right shows the total number of uses of each code in all the cases shown. The Subtotal row at the bottom provides the total number of code references in each case. The matrix is shown sorted by code.To sort instead by the number of uses in a particular case, click the case's column header.To sort by the total number of times the code has been used, click the Subtotal header. (Click again to sort in reverse.)New export formats:All charts, lists, and tables created by the Frequency Report tool can be exported by clicking Export at the bottom left of the Frequency Report window:The Statistics and Code Tree views can be exported in the following formats: Excel (.xlsx), Word, RTF, plain text, HTML, or PDF.The Table view can be exported as an Excel, CSV, tab-separated text (TSV), or PDF file. (You can also export the first fifteen codes as a CHIP file, for use with Student CHIP.) The Code Cloud view can be exported as an HTML, PNG, JPEG, GIF, PBM, or PDF file.All charts in the Graph view can be exported as a PNG, JPEG, GIF, or PDF file. Additional features and enhancements:The Frequency Report tool now updates itself continually as you code more material.You can now ignore codes that aren't used in your study, for a view of code frequency that is uncluttered by currently-unused codes. Check the Exclude Unused Codes box at the bottom left of the Frequency Report window. Enhancements: Autocode Autocode is now more powerful than ever, with new word-match options, wildcards to find partial matches for a search phrase, and a way to avoid duplicate codes when the same search phrase is found more than once in a coded segment of text. Searching by word:In addition to finding your search phrase wherever it occurs, you can now restrict the search to only an entire word (or words), the start of a word, or the end of a word. Choose a Match Mode option in the Phrases view to restrict your search. Case matching:By default, Autocode finds your search phrase regardless of capitalization. However, this can be inconvenient when searching for names or acronyms, where capitalization matters. (For example, if you want to search for the acronym "IT" without also coding every occurrence of the word "it", you will need to specify that you want only the capitalized term.) To control whether Autocode uses capitalization, check the Match Case box (and make sure to enter your search phrase with the exact capitalization you want). Wildcard searches:Wildcards are special characters that you can use to stand for unknown characters in a search phrase. You use * (asterisk) to substitute for any number of characters, or ? (question mark) to substitute for a single character: explor* matches words like "explore" or "exploration" or "exploring"Speaker ? matches phrases like "Speaker 1" or "Speaker 2" or "Speaker A" You can use wildcards to search for a phrase without specifying the whole thing, or to search for a number of similar phrases all at once. Duplicate handling:If you include additional text in your Autocode search, Autocode may find that text more than once in the coded segment. For example, if you specify that you want to code the entire paragraph where "family" is found, and the word "family" occurs more than once in a paragraph, Autocode can find both occurrences and codes the paragraph twice-once for each occurrence. This may be useful at times-for example, if you want to weight the code by the number of occurrences, you can look at the number of times the paragraph is coded to figure out how many times "family" appears in it. However, most of the time, the duplicate occurrences are simply clutter. You can now control whether Autocode creates duplicate codes by checking or unchecking theDuplicate Codes For Each Occurrence box. Status reports:Autocode now reports its progress during the process. By looking at the bottom of the Autocode window, you can see which case, source, and term is currently being autocoded, along with how many occurrences have been found so far. Sneak Preview: Intercoder Reliability tool The Intercoder Reliability tool is useful when more than one person works on the coding for your study. It quantifies how closely your coders agree with each other, assuring you that the coding is objective and reproducible, rather than simply a subjective view of the particular coder who handled a piece of source data. Note: The Intercoder Reliability tool is still in active development. It is offered now as a preview to give you a first look at new features coming to HyperRESEARCH, and for the convenience of those who want early access to these capabilities. The Intercoder Reliability tool requires a sample of source material that each coder has coded independently in order to make comparisons. It computes the following commonly-used measurements of intercoder agreement:simple agreement (in percentage or ratio terms)Scott's PiCohen's KappaKrippendorf's AlphaTo use the Intercoder Reliability tool, choose Tools → Intercoder Reliability. Sneak Preview: Advanced Filters tool The Advanced Filters tool adds code concurrency and text content discriminators to HyperRESEARCH's code filters. Using the Advanced Filters tool, you can narrow down your study to examine only the set of code references you want to work with and analyze at the moment. Note: The Advanced Filters tool is still in active development. It is offered now as a preview to give you a first look at new features coming to HyperRESEARCH, and for the convenience of those who want early access to these capabilities. Filters let you choose certain code references and cases to work with, temporarily hiding all other data in your study. You can use the filter capability to analyze selected subsets of your data. HyperRESEARCH lets you filter based on source file, specificcodes used, whether two codes are used for the same segment of source material, and oth