Data analysis Flashcards
is how researchers go from a mass of data to meaningful insights
Data Analysis
Analysis and preparation happen in parallel and include the following steps:
Getting familiar with the data
Revisiting research objectives
Developing a framework
Identifying patterns and connections
Since most qualitative data is just words, the researcher should start by reading the data several times to get familiar with it and start looking for basic observations or patterns. This also includes ___________.
Getting familiar with the data, transcribing the data
Here, the researcher revisits the research objective and identifies the questions that can be answered through the collected data.
Revisiting research objectives
Also known as coding or indexing, here the researcher identifies broad ideas, concepts, behaviors, or phrases and assigns codes to them.
Developing a framework
Once the data is coded, the research can start identifying themes, looking for the most common responses to questions, identifying data or patterns that can answer research questions, and finding areas that can be explored further.
Identifying patterns and connections
Qualitative Data Analysis Methods
Content Analysis
Narrative Analysis
Framework Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Grounded Theory
This is one of the most common methods to analyze qualitative data. It is used to analyze documented information in the form of texts, media, or even physical items.
Content Analysis
Content analysis is usually used to analyze responses from ________.
interviewees
This method is used to analyze content from various sources, such as interviews of respondents, observations from the field, or surveys.
Narrative Analysis
It focuses on using the stories and experiences shared by people to answer the research questions.
Narrative Analysis
This is more advanced method that consists of several stages such as familiarization, identifying a thematic framework, coding, charting, mapping & interpretation.
Framework Analysis
Like narrative analysis, ________ is used to analyze interactions with people. However, focuses on analyzing the social context in which the communication between the researcher and the respondent occurred.
Discourse Analysis
also looks at the respondent’s day-to-day environment & uses that information during analysis
Discourse Analysis
refers to using qualitative data to explain why a certain phenomenon happened. It does this by studying a variety of similar cases in different settings and using the data to derive causal explanations.
Grounded Theory
