Categories Management
Categories in Cardus.AI provide a powerful way to organize and filter your qualitative data. They function as custom metadata that you can apply to interviews and automatically flow to all narratives extracted from those interviews.
Key Features
- Flexible Category Keys: Create any category type needed for your research (e.g., department, role, location, tenure e interview date)
- Unlimited Values: Each category key can have multiple possible values (e.g., department: Engineering, Marketing, HR)
- Batch Application: Apply categories to multiple interviews simultaneously
- CSV Import Support: When importing interviewees data that will be using RTI, you can have columns for every category
- Edit Anytime: Update categories on existing interviews as your research evolves
- Inheritance System: All narratives extracted from an interview automatically inherit its categories
Analysis Benefits
- Powerful Filtering: Filter narratives by any combination of categories,
- Comparative Analysis: Compare narratives across different organizational dimensions, a category can be a research cohort, so you can run a benchmark and compare results from departments or years
- Visualization: View narrative distributions by category in the Dashboard's scatter plot
- Semantic Search: Combine category filters with semantic search for precise analysis
How to Use Categories
- Define Categories: Create meaningful category keys in Project Settings
- Apply to Interviews: Assign category values when adding interviewees or editing existing interviews
- Process Interviews: Extract narratives, which will automatically inherit categories
- Filter & Analyze: Use categories to segment and compare narratives across organizational dimensions. Use the chat on the dashboard and ask for different comparisons, between clusters, categories, classes and metrics
Categories provide a foundation for structured qualitative analysis, allowing you to segment and compare narratives across meaningful organizational dimensions while maintaining the rich context of individual stories.