B. A. Tague’s scientific contributions

... qc better-supports such users, providing a scriptable command-line interface with powerful and flexible queries, what data stored in simple and standardized formats. qc adopts the "unix philosophy" (McIlroy et al., 1978) of building tools which do one thing well while being composable into flexible workflows, and the values of "plain-text social science" (Healy, 2020), emphasizing reproducability, transparency, and collaborative open science. qc was used in (Proctor et al., 2019) (described but not cited) and the author's doctoral dissertation; qc is currently a core tool supporting a large NSF-funded Delphi study (Ogbeifun et al., 2016) involving multiple interviews with forty participant experts, open coding with over a thousand distinct codes, four separate coders, and several custom machine learning tools supporting the research team with clustering and synthesizing emergent themes. ...

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A tool for qualitative data analysis designed to support computational thinking