![]() And when they categorise objects they also add information to them, in the form of category labels or descriptions (a form of what Dave Snowden calls self-indexing). ![]() Two or more entities in the same category can be seen to be related to each other, by that joint membership. ![]() Linking concept: When people categorise people, objects, events, etc, they create relationships between those events. Social Network Analysis (software): A systematic means of aggregating, visualising and then exploring relationships between people, objects, events Pile sorting / card sorting: A simple participatory method of eliciting people’s tacit knowledge, especially the way they categorise people, objects, events etcĢ. The core idea: A combination of two methods can help us aggregate and analyse qualitative information in a way that is participatory, transparent, and systematic.ġ. Problem : How do you aggregate large amounts of qualitative data, in a way that does not destroy the interesting details, and/or prematurely impose your own interpretations on the data ? E.g as we often do by counting and/or cross-tabulating frequencies of references to types of things or events of specific interest to ourselves as researchers/evaluators.Īssumption: If we are able to develop better representations of complex bodies of information then this will provide us with more informed choices about how to respond to the content of that information. The older version can be seen in this pdf 1. The pre-2018 version of this web page had a different structure and some of the older content is no longer shown here. How to build and explore collective categorisations of qualitative data, sourced from multiple participants.A summary of the core idea: Combining the use of card/pile sorting and network visualisation software. ![]()
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