Week 6: Coding

Question 1

Coding

Answer 1

how you define what the data you are analyzing is about and parts of data are identified to assist with, labelling with critical thinking to link them and analyze them through fracturing data and disaggregating records

Question 2

How To Code

Answer 2

searching and identifying data
providing structure for data
simplify the data to find relations more easily between data
assist with abstract thinking
discovering theme

Question 3

Reasons for Coding

Answer 3

data looks different which offers new perspective
theoretical directives for interpretive structure
help organizing data
avoids inconsistencies
helps sort through the info

Question 4

Topic Coding

Answer 4

gathering materials by topic to reflect on all different ways people discuss particular topics, seek patterns, develop dimensions to experiences, most common and most challenging
helps identify the material later and make it more accessible to analyzing data
splitting data into categories that has basic characteristics share

Question 5

Descriptive Coding

Answer 5

people, places, site, and noun that where things are nominal to store things already known about the data to find knowledge about their demographics

Question 6

Analytic Coding

Answer 6

development of concepts as you code more, putting a category aside and making a new coding categories
writing queries as memos
developing theories and categories theoretically

Question 7

Open Coding

Answer 7

aims of open up the data and identifying concepts to fit into it
concepts to the observed data and phenomenon are attached during qualitative data analysis

Question 8

Axial Coding

Answer 8

coding based around a topic

breaking down of core themes during qualitative data analysis

Question 9

Purpose of Analytic Coding

Answer 9

making, celebrating, illustrating and developing categories theoretically
questioning the data about new ideas/codes and linking the data
purpose to alert to new message, explore, compare, and develop theory to establish significance and meaning

Question 10

Memos

Answer 10

must be used to record descriptions of events, memory of vibes and contexts, raw data and ideas, can be reflective