Trawling the Data

I've been playing with Leximancer for a few weeks now. To begin, I just loaded all of the transcripts into it to get a very complex themes and concept map. There was nothing strikingly interesting from that because there was lots of irrelevant information (ie included all of the questions too).

So now I am trying to extract the answers to each of the questions and anlyse them separately. This is proving really difficult because I was not consistent in my questioning. I often let the interviewee ramble off topic and did not get all of the questions answered adequately.

However going back through the data time and time again is good as it gives me a feel for what is being said. I'm not confident how to use Leximancer well, so i have supplemented this with two things. Firstly i have uploaded the transcript into Wordle to see what words come about. And secondly i have gone through the summaries i made of the interviews and looked to see what my themes were. By triangulating this evidence i hope to come up with something relevant.


The real learning in this is for me though. My questioning technique was really not consistent and next time i will read all questions even if i am repeating and say them clearly and not try and answer for the interviewee!