1. get organized. do an inventory. is everything complete? holes in data? is everything labeled? Dates, places, ways of identifying sources
2. read through the lot
3. read through the lot again
4. Now what about Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Management and Analysis? Helpful or a distraction? Will the time invested in understanding it be more than offset by its power in helping understand patterns in the data? As a further output of this course familiarity with a CAQDMA could be useful. p444 Patton gives some examples of software programs
5. I can glimpse already patterns and systems coming forth out of the data i have so far. I think certain ways of seeing the purpose will be linked to certain other ways of seeing the alumni program. Is that something a CAQDMA can help me see? Is there any difference by country and batch and academic level? (Obviously not statistical but question-raising differences?)
p 445 The 4 fundamental types of information that contribute to the construction of a finding of "answer" in qualitative analysis are:
characteristics of the sources where information is sought
primary information or objects collected from the sources
secondary information or objects created to aid in th interpretation of primary objects, and
characteristics of the coders who construct the secondary objects (MacQueen and Milstein 1993:31, in Patton)
I think what this is saying is that you have information about the source, then the info itself, your interpretation of that, and your framework that you are operating in.
So then you segment and create metadata. Segments are bits of text, metadata are categories, codes, comments, annotations, graphical representations
Chapter 8 Patton: on data analysis 2
OK... steps
1. get organized. do an inventory. is everything complete? holes in data? is everything labeled? Dates, places, ways of identifying sources
2. read through the lot
3. read through the lot again
4. Now what about Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Management and Analysis? Helpful or a distraction? Will the time invested in understanding it be more than offset by its power in helping understand patterns in the data? As a further output of this course familiarity with a CAQDMA could be useful. p444 Patton gives some examples of software programs
5. I can glimpse already patterns and systems coming forth out of the data i have so far. I think certain ways of seeing the purpose will be linked to certain other ways of seeing the alumni program. Is that something a CAQDMA can help me see? Is there any difference by country and batch and academic level? (Obviously not statistical but question-raising differences?)
p 445 The 4 fundamental types of information that contribute to the construction of a finding of "answer" in qualitative analysis are:
I think what this is saying is that you have information about the source, then the info itself, your interpretation of that, and your framework that you are operating in.
So then you segment and create metadata. Segments are bits of text, metadata are categories, codes, comments, annotations, graphical representations