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<div class="content-container" style="width:968px;margin:auto;"> <div class="side-content"> <div id="page-toc"> </div> <div class="MCRelationshipsProxy_0"> <p class="conceptHeading_concept_0">Related material</p> <p class="conceptItem_concept_0"><a href="../about-nvivo/about-nvivo.htm">About NVivo</a> </p> <p class="conceptItem_concept_0"><a href="tutorial-01-intro-import.htm">Getting started – Intro & Import</a> </p> <p class="conceptItem_concept_0"><a href="tutorial-02-organize.htm">Getting started – Organize</a> </p> <p class="conceptItem_concept_0"><a href="tutorial-03-explore.htm">Getting started – Explore</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="nocontent"> <div class="MCBreadcrumbsBox_0 breadcrumbs" role="navigation" aria-label="Breadcrumbs" data-mc-breadcrumbs-divider=" > " data-mc-breadcrumbs-count="3" data-mc-toc="True"> </div> </div> <div role="main" id="mc-main-content"> <h1>Getting started basics</h1> <p>Three tutorials in this section are designed to get new users working in <span class="mc-variable Primary.NVivo variable">NVivo</span> as quickly as possible. </p> <p>Once you've got the basics, <MadCap:conditionalText data-mc-conditions="Primary.WindowsOnly">43</MadCap:conditionalText> YouTube videos in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNjHMRgHS4Fc7-Bk0K5PR9rtRyGdFfNpu" target="_blank" data-mc-conditions="Primary.WindowsOnly">Getting Started with NVivo</a> will develop your NVivo skills further.</p> <p>In any project you'll always need to import data first, but how you proceed then is up to you—probably a back-and-forth combination of organizing your data by coding it and taking notes, and exploring it by running queries and visualizing different aspects.</p> <p>The tutorials are:</p> <ol> <li value="1"><a href="tutorial-01-intro-import.htm">Intro & Import</a>: A general overview of what <span class="mc-variable Primary.NVivo variable">NVivo</span> does, and how to import data.</li> <li value="2"><a href="tutorial-02-organize.htm">Organize</a>: A first look at how to code, note-keeping options, how to create cases (the units of analysis) and give them attributes (descriptive information).</li> <li value="3"><a href="tutorial-03-explore.htm">Explore</a>: Run a word frequency query and create a word cloud, then create a simple chart showing opinions on an issue.</li> </ol> <h6>Translations</h6> <p>You can view these tutorials in:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Deutsch: <a href="de/nvivo-tutorials.htm" class="MCXref xref">Erste Schritte – Anleitungen</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Español: <a href="es/nvivo-tutorials.htm" class="MCXref xref">Tutoriales de primeros pasos</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Français: <a href="fr/nvivo-tutorials.htm" class="MCXref xref">Didacticiels de démarrage</a></p> </li> <li data-mc-conditions="Primary.WindowsOnly"> <p>Português: <a href="pt/nvivo-tutorials.htm" class="MCXref xref">Tutoriais de introdução</a></p> </li> <li> <p>日本語: <a href="ja/nvivo-tutorials.htm" class="MCXref 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