What NVivo does: NVivo lets you identify themes in your data and gather all themes across all of your data sources together in one organized hierarchical list.

Importing data: You can import text files, images, video, and audio files into your NVivo project and then organize them into folders for coding. You can also import survey data.

Coding: You can code all of your imported data to identify common and unique themes, or use a predefined set of codes. See what you have coded within each file by turning on coding stripes or highlighting.

Cases: If your project involves categories of people or organizations or places, you may find it useful to group them into cases. Using cases can expand the kinds of queries you run against your coded data.

Memos: Memos are one way that NVivo can help you record your thoughts, ideas, questions, observations, reminders, and so on, relating to analysis of their research data.

Word frequency query: This is just one of many kinds of queries you can run in NVivo to identify patterns in your data. For example a word frequency query can help you see which issues arise most frequently in your coded data.