Section outline

  • Data Analysis: Coding and Memoing

    Data Analysis: Coding and Memoing - Data reduction and synthesis are fundamental tasks in qualitative data analysis. Many analysts use coding and memoing to carry out these tasks. How do you start coding data? What are the steps for doing so, and how do you know when you are done? What is memoing? How is it related to coding and to writing up results? What about iterative analysis. When do you interrupt analysis to “go back” to the raw data or even return to field sites or informants? We discuss the specific procedures used in coding and memoing, but we emphasize the strategies that, over time, may help analysts hone their craft.

    Faculty:  Daniel Dohan and Wendy Anderson

    Location:      Mission Hall 2108

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 5 Feb 4, 2015 File

    • Required Reading:

      Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Chapter 8 "Data Analysis and Representation"

    • Dohan,2007, JGIM File
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