Filtering in the Excerpts Workspace

Filtering via the Excerpts Workspace

The Excerpt workspace offers powerful filtering capabilities based on your codes, descriptors, users, and other data points related to the excerpt creator, date created, etc. Via the Excerpts workspace, you can filter in iterative ways that isolate the intersections of specific data.

The Excerpts workspace is the space to use if you want to select excerpts or media in which certain characteristics co-exist. For example, identifying excerpts created by a specific user AND with a specific code; linked to any number of specific descriptors (e.g. 'Mothers working full time' AND 'Participants from Hispanic background' AND ....); or linked to specific descriptors AND coded at specific codes.

To create a dataset via the Excerpts workspace:

  1. Navigate to the Excerpts workspace
  2. Use the “Columns” panel to identify data points and/or information you want to filter by. You will need to uncheck all and hen recheck the items you want to keep in your data set. If you want to keep specific codes or descriptors for example, you need to check those. The Excerpts space will now only show what has been checked.
  3. Using the “Filters” panel, you can further narrow down the selection by clicking on True or False for a code (select true to isolate excerpts with that code applied; select false to isolate excerpts where that code was not applied), and select an option for descriptors or users.
  4. The excerpts database will change based on your selections, only displaying excerpts that meet your filtering criteria.  
  5. Click the “Select All” button on the bottom right
  6. Click the “Make Set” button on the bottom right. This will create a dataset with the excerpts that met your filtering criteria. 
  7. You will get a message indicating the Active Data Set has changed and the main Data Sets heading will be in red font, indicating you are in data set mode or only working with a portion of your data.
  8. You are now ready to navigate Dedoose and explore the dataset you created

You can save the dataset by visiting the Data Sets workspace. Doing so will enable you or anyone else in the project to access and load the dataset.

The filtered Excerpts can be exported from the Excerpts workspace.