Dedoose is a Web Based Qualitative Analysis application and Mixed Methods research tool developed by professors from UCLA, and is the successor to EthnoNotes.

Dedoose is designed, developed, and operated by SocioCultural Research Consultants (SCRC), whose majority of ownership consists of professors from UCLA. Dedoose's differs from traditional QDA software in that it was designed as an easy to use, highly visual, and cost effective alternative to traditional qualitative data analysis software. Dedoose and EthnoNotes have gained notoriety for their integration of qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods in combination with interactive data visualization

Data visualization

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information"....

s. The Dedoose family of tools have been used in a wide variety of studies in many industries from Medical

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

, Market Research

Market research

Market research is any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers. It is a very important component of business strategy...

, Social Policy Research, and other academic social science research