Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Moving foward :)
I finished chapter six and send it to my advisers. It is the first draft and as so I might have to work more with it once they read it and evaluate it. But as one of my advisers says, now we have something to work with! :)
I started working with Chapter 7’s data already. First I created most of Table 7.1, the list of threads that will be included in this chapter with their general characteristics. This will help when writing the introduction of the chapter, where data general characteristics are presented to the reader. To complete this table I need to assign a title to each thread, one that I will have once I analyze closely its content.
In order to work faster with the organization and analysis of data, I am taking each thread, one at a time, and working with it so that I don’t need to go back again to it, only to reread and reanalyze it.
The steps include: eliminating redundant intertextuality and signatures, assigning pseudonyms, organizing the data into stories, identifying the stanzas, identifying the story parts, and creating the tree diagrams with the corresponding stanza titles.
When working with chapter six, I completed the tree diagrams at the end of chapter six and then realized it would have been helpful if I had done it before. One advantage of such is that I had all the stanzas in a single page and redundancy was not a limitation because of repeated data when stories have the same messages. Also, this was about the same as having a list of stanzas by story, but better because again, there were no repetitions.
I already have a preliminary analysis of the threaded discussions for November and December, one that I did when downloading the data. That helps me a lot to work faster because I already have a guide.
My goal is to finish organizing all the data (18 threads) in a week. Yes, that means I am working extra hour, about ten hours a day! I want to finish this summer and I am putting the time to do so.
I started working with Chapter 7’s data already. First I created most of Table 7.1, the list of threads that will be included in this chapter with their general characteristics. This will help when writing the introduction of the chapter, where data general characteristics are presented to the reader. To complete this table I need to assign a title to each thread, one that I will have once I analyze closely its content.
In order to work faster with the organization and analysis of data, I am taking each thread, one at a time, and working with it so that I don’t need to go back again to it, only to reread and reanalyze it.
The steps include: eliminating redundant intertextuality and signatures, assigning pseudonyms, organizing the data into stories, identifying the stanzas, identifying the story parts, and creating the tree diagrams with the corresponding stanza titles.
When working with chapter six, I completed the tree diagrams at the end of chapter six and then realized it would have been helpful if I had done it before. One advantage of such is that I had all the stanzas in a single page and redundancy was not a limitation because of repeated data when stories have the same messages. Also, this was about the same as having a list of stanzas by story, but better because again, there were no repetitions.
I already have a preliminary analysis of the threaded discussions for November and December, one that I did when downloading the data. That helps me a lot to work faster because I already have a guide.
My goal is to finish organizing all the data (18 threads) in a week. Yes, that means I am working extra hour, about ten hours a day! I want to finish this summer and I am putting the time to do so.
Labels: data analysis
