If you are planning to conduct KIIs, IDIs or FGDs during your data collection, do participant observation or collect policy papers, press releases or Internet data from online surveys, soon or later you will have volumes of data and field notes for analysis. Qualitative data analysis is that process of bringing order, structure and meaning to the mass of collected data. Making sense of it without the right research tools is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Consequently, our world is exploding with data – text from interviews and FGDs transcripts, videos, social media and more. Course Overview Many research scientists nowadays collect data through a mixed methods approach.
