How can I create views in ATLAS.ti Web?
Create and export diverse reports of your data in the Views section to examine code distributions and frequencies across your documents
What are Views and where to start?
The Views section in ATLAS.ti Web allows you to query, visualize, and export insights from your coded data. Views transform your coding into analyzable patterns, showing how often codes appear, how they overlap, and where they are distributed across your documents. You can save multiple views for different research questions, and each view updates automatically as your coding evolves.
Access the Views page in the left-hand toolbar (see below). Then, click on “+ New View” to create a new view.
Below, we will explore each View in ATLAS.ti Web and explain how to use it through detailed instructions and visual aid.
Code Distribution View
A code distribution chart displays all the codes in descending order of their frequency (i.e., the codes with the most associated quotations appear first). Below the chart, you can see all of the data quotations. By clicking on any code in the chart, ATLAS.ti Web will filter the quotations below to only show quotations that are associated to your selected code(s).
You can choose whether you would like to view the results as a bar chart, donut chart, or tree map.
To change the visualization type, click here, and you can then select the preferred option. Below you can see some of them.
Bar Chart:
Donut Chart:
Tree Map:
Filter
A powerful way to query your data is to apply filter rules. Click on the “Filter” button (in the upper righthand corner), and then you can select the information by which you want to filter the quotations.
You can filter by the content of quotations, document name, document group, code, code group, comment, and creator.
Add more filters! You can add as many filter rules as you would like. The more specific the criteria, the more relevant the data displayed will be.
Sorting
You can also choose how you want to sort the resulting quotations by clicking on the header row at the top of the column you want to sort. Finally,
Exporting the findings
For all of the Views you can save the findings in a screenshot of the graphic if you would like to include the image in research reports or presentations. In Code Distribution View the resulting quotations can also be downloaded as an Excel report to your computer by clicking on the download icon in the top-right corner. This will generate an Excel spreadsheet of the data quotations, their associated codes and comments, and the document from which each quotation comes.
Code-Document View
Code-Document tables allow you to explore code frequencies across your documents. In other words, it lets you see where in your project the different codes are being used.
You can add codes, code groups, documents, and/or document groups. For example, if we wanted to determine which themes are discussed by different groups of people or researchers in their works, we can select codes that represent our themes and then documents/document groups for people in question.
Where to start?
The Code-Document table shows how many times each code was used across all the data from the different groups of people, providing a helpful global overview and permitting comparisons across the data.
With this tool, you can construct tables that show the frequencies of your codes and/or code groups, so you can see how many times a certain code (or code group) was used in a particular document (or document group).
Review each cell
Click on any cell in the table to view the quotations behind the corresponding code-document intersection.
You can also click on a column or row name to select all quotations linked to that specific document or code.
In the screenshot example, the row “Attitudes” is selected, and one cell - “Barriers against Interview - Expert 01” - is also highlighted. With just one click, all related code-document occurrences are displayed below for closer inspection.
Export Excel
You can also export the selected quotations with full details.
The exported file includes the document name, the quotation content, the associated codes, and any comments linked to each quotation.
This option becomes available only after you select quotations in the table or chart view. Once selected, you can download the data in Excel format, allowing you to conveniently review or share your coded information outside of ATLAS.ti Web.
Sankey Chart
The Code Document View allows you not only to review your data in a table format, but also to switch the view to a Sankey Chart. This visualization provides a more intuitive overview of where your codes and documents intersect. The Sankey Chart makes it easier to identify patterns and overlaps between codes and documents at a glance.
Code Co-Occurrence view
This view helps you explore how codes relate to one another when they have been applied to the same or overlapping quotations. It allows you to identify which topics are mentioned together or appear in close proximity within your data. The resulting patterns depend on how your material has been coded.
Where to start?
Click on “Code” under “Add Row:” to open a list of available codes for analysis. You can scroll through the list or use the search bar to find and select the relevant codes to include. Repeat the same process under “Add Column:” to define the codes that will appear as columns in your table.
The resulting table will list the frequencies for each pair of codes, or the number of times that both codes are applied to the same data (in which case, they co-occur).
Increase clarity
Click on “Remove empty rows/columns” to clear the table of any codes that have no co-occurrences with other codes — both row-to-column and column-to-row. This helps you keep the table focused only on codes that share meaningful relationships.
Review each cell
Click any cell in the Code Co-Occurrence table to open the results pane. The pane displays two parallel lists representing the two selected codes, showing where they co-occur within the data. Each entry includes the document name, quotation text, and associated codes. You can scroll through the list to examine where the two codes appear together across your project.
Jump back to document
Click on "Open" by any quotation in the results pane to open it directly in the Document View. This allows you to review the quotation in its full context.
Sorting
The co-occurrence list can be sorted by document name, quotation, or code. Sorting helps you quickly organize and locate relevant data segments based on your preferred view or analytical focus.
Concepts view
Where to start?
Begin with selecting the document, document group, code, or code group that you want to analyze in the Concepts View. Once applied, the tool will scan the corresponding data, such as the content of documents or the quotations linked to selected codes, to identify and display the most common concepts found within them.
Reviewing and Sorting Quotations
Now you can see the whole Concept cloud!
When you click on any concept word in the Concepts View, the tool displays all text selections that contain the selected word or phrase across your project. You can review these directly to understand where and how the concept appears in context. These are not yet quotations in the projects - simply selections of text.
Sorting
The list can be sorted by various attributes, such as Document Name, Codes, Comment, Create At , Created By, Updated At, Updated By, or whether the quotation includes images.
This makes it easy to organize and navigate through your data based on the most relevant criteria for your analysis.
Click on "+" to see more options for the sorting.
Selecting and Coding Multiple Quotations
Select multiple excerpts at once by checking the boxes next to them in the list. After selecting the desired text pieces, click on the three-dot menu in the bottom and choose "Add Code". This allows you to apply one or more codes to all selected quotations simultaneously, making it easy to code multiple relevant data segments in bulk. This functionality enables quick and efficient thematic coding directly from the Concept view.
Adding a View Comment
You can also add a comment to the opened view by clicking on the three dots in the top-right corner. The comment space offers a perfect space to note down your research question (or the purpose for which you created this view).
