Sunday, November 15, 2015

Chapter 4, A survey on Qualitative data and analytic Methods

"Analytic choices are what we generate  the most sufficient answers to your research Questions, and what will best represent and present the projects findings" (90).

Analyzing data is something that I think is important when conducting research. And having a lot of data and not knowing what to do with it can make or break your research. Framing you answers can help you to navigate your research to the answers you need.

"Category Construction is our best attempt to cluster the most seemingly alike things into the most seemingly alike things into the most seemingly alike things into the most seemingly appropriate to you." (91).

This quote struct interesting to me because when you first begin you research you don't think of categorizing until you receive data. But the author here suggested that its good to categorize before you begin research in order to conduct a healthy process.  this way, you r research can be further analyze because you have Clusters of information to unpack.

"Coding and categorizing are heuristics to detect some of the possible patterns at work within the corpus, and an analytic memo further articulates your deductive,interview,and deductive thinking process on what things may mean."

This section helped me understand why the process of coding is important. Organisation of key phrases is important to analyze data but the idea of the coding being a thinking piece to the next step in research is good for progression and organisation. it is also goo to channel thought on anything new that may arrive in you process .


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