Tuesday, September 24, 2013

9.24 Analyzing ethngoraphic data

We spent the class analyzing your notes on the class event,  We looked at the four different kinds of notes, and we analyzed (named, classified, and looked for patterns in) each of the for parts of the note taking process: jottings; headnotes; writing down later memories; and generating some observations (generalizations) about what was going on.

After noticing patterns in how the notes were constructed (their forms) and their content (what they actually said), we made a list of 10 questions that we might ask about these notes (see previous post).

You then divided into groups, and chose a particular question you would work on answering.  I asked you to choose your question based on:  will the data be able to provide a rich, detailed answer to this question?  and are we interested in working on this question?

I'm looking forward to reading your posts!

Blog 7: Post an answer to one of the 10 questions we created in class.  Support each part of your answer with evidence from the data.  Evidence should take the form of examples to illustrate particular content or forms and statements about the frequency of particular particular patterns. 

Examples of frequency statements.   (6 out of the 10 jottings did. . . ;  in the notes as a whole, professor chandler is mentioned 26 times, 10 in jottings, 5 in head notes, 10 in remembered later, and 1 in observations )(not true - you would need to count this); or far-back statements accounted for less than half of the statements in jottings, but close to 90% of statements in observations (I made this up, it is not true - it is an example of how you should be using numbers to support your claims about what the data does)

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