Collaboration enhances the depth and reliability of insights derived from qualitative data. By combining diverse perspectives, collaboration enables groups to better understand their findings.

It's helpful to decide on your collaborative approach. This determines how to set up your project. Three helpful approaches to collaboration are split coding, consensus coding, and peer debriefing. Each approach can be used separately or in combination with one another.

Split coding is a time-saving approach. By assigning each transcript to a different person, you can complete your analysis more quickly, but you may miss deeper insights. Learn how.

With consensus coding, you gain overlapping viewpoints and perspectives. This method is more rigorous but also more time-consuming. Learn how.

Peer debriefing is commonly used by students who analyze data and have their advisor review their work. Learn how.