Dedoose

Dedoose is a California-based software publisher that specializes in cloud-native applications for qualitative and mixed-methods research. The company’s sole commercial offering, also named Dedoose, serves academic, non-profit, and commercial researchers who need to extract patterns from unstructured data such as interview transcripts, open-ended survey responses, field notes, photos, audio recordings, and video footage. Typical use cases include thematic coding of ethnographic interviews, sentiment analysis of social-media posts, literature-review synthesis, and longitudinal evaluation of educational or clinical interventions. The application combines drag-and-drop multimedia import, segment-level coding, inter-rater reliability statistics, and on-the-fly charting so that teams can move from raw material to publishable insights without switching between spreadsheets, statistical packages, and transcription tools. Because the software runs entirely in a web browser, collaborators at different institutions can access shared projects simultaneously while role-based permissions keep sensitive data compliant with IRB and GDPR requirements. Export options range from SPSS and Excel matrices to rich Word and PowerPoint reports that embed coded excerpts alongside visualizations. Dedoose software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest version and allowing batch installation alongside other applications.