How Evidano fit the workflow
The report was authored by staff from the Illinois Community College Board, the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and Afton Partners. The publication describes Evidano mainly in its methodology. What it does show is a clear, disclosed, human-reviewed workflow.
- 1Gather raw qualitative data
Six quarters of input drawn from across the consortium.
- 2Anonymize before analysis
The data was anonymized prior to being entered into the platform.
- 3Identify themes with Evidano
Evidano was used to surface themes across the dataset.
- 4Researchers validate and pull quotes
Staff read through all raw data to confirm themes and select supporting examples.
“Qualitative data was anonymized and entered into an artificial intelligence (AI) platform, AILYZE, to identify themes. Afton staff subsequently read through all raw data to validate themes and identify specific quotes and examples.”
The use of Evidano is named in the report, an example of transparent AI use.
AI surfaced themes. People validated them. The tool supports judgment, not replaces it.
In this study, data was anonymized before any analysis took place.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
Evidano is AI-assisted qualitative data analysis software for interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, and documents. It supports AI-assisted thematic analysis with your own or an AI-suggested codebook, transcription and translation in 100+ languages, clickable quotes and citations, and exportable visual reports. End-to-end encryption, no third-party data sharing, and your data is not used to train AI. From USD 50/month for unlimited analysis.
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More case studies
AcademiaResearchers at Oxford and Melbourne used AI to analyse their interview data
Evidano helped analyse interview transcripts in a peer-reviewed study, then was checked against manual coding.
AcademiaA Stanford-led study used AI to cross-check its qualitative coding
A published mixed-methods study uploaded deidentified transcripts into Evidano to cross-check themes. Every AI code was reviewed by the researcher.
AcademiaResearchers used AI for qualitative analysis. Human experts reached the same conclusions.
A published Cornell study used Evidano (previously AILYZE) for thematic analysis, and human experts reached the same conclusions.