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AI and interview transcript coding: find themes without re-reading 100 pages
AI tags themes in interview transcripts so qualitative research stops eating your weekend.
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- 1The big idea
- 2qualitative coding
- 3thematic analysis
- 4interview
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Section 1
The big idea
If you ran 10 interviews for a research project, finding themes by hand takes forever. AI can do a first-pass coding so you have themes to refine, not 100 blank pages to stare at.
How to use it
- Paste a transcript and ask AI to identify recurring themes
- Ask AI to tag quotes by theme with line numbers
- Ask AI to spot themes that ONLY appear in one interview (outliers)
- Ask AI to draft a code book you can refine
Try it
Take any short transcript (or interview a friend). Ask AI to find 3 themes and tag the supporting quotes.
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