Analyze your documents

From your corpus to evidence you can inspect.

Choose documents, frame the analysis, and start a saved project. Practical guidance is included here at the point where you need it.

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I'll walk you through choosing documents, framing your question, and starting the analysis, pointing at each field as we go.

Takes about a minute. You can also skip ahead and fill out the form directly.

  1. 1. Choose documentsUpload your corpus or select a sample
  2. 2. Frame the analysisName the question and choose an approach
  3. 3. Review and startConfirm the setup, then follow saved progress

Before you start

You do not need to master the methodology first. These three checks are enough to begin.

Use a coherent corpus

Gather text-rich interviews, field notes, or reports that belong together analytically.

Ask an answerable question

State a phenomenon or comparison that the supplied documents can address.

Plan to inspect the result

Treat generated codes and findings as proposals; review their exact source passages and contrary evidence.

Start with a sample corpus

Choose a released corpus to prefill the project details below, then start its analysis in this browser.

Open Science in linguistics — quick sample

Three released interviews for a fast end-to-end demonstration.

3 interviews · Released source corpus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open Science in linguistics — full corpus

All 25 released interviews for the representative-corpus workflow.

25 interviews · Released source corpus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Start a new analysis

No command line is required. You can leave this page and reopen the saved project while it runs.

Supported: TXT, Markdown, DOCX, text-based PDF, and RTF. Scanned PDFs need OCR before upload.

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Leave unticked for interview transcripts. Ticked: respondents' quotes are separated from the author's narration first (about $0.13 per 30-page paper).

Keep the population, setting, and phenomenon explicit enough to guide interpretation.

Optional: add an interpretive focus

Questions before starting

Which document formats can I use?

TXT, Markdown, DOCX, text-based PDF, and RTF are supported. Scanned PDFs need OCR first.

Can I leave while the analysis runs?

Yes. The project is saved first and appears under saved projects. Processing time varies with corpus size and the selected approach.

How should I review the results?

Use the evidence matrix to compare the corpus, open exact source passages, examine negative cases and qualifications, and treat the sourced write-up as an inspectable proposal rather than an automatic verdict.

Read the detailed methodology and limitations →

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