Hello all,
Today I have completed my last interview. In the end I decided to do two interviews and one small focus group. I found alongside collecting information from artefacts this has given me more than enough information to analyse.
The issue I am struggling with now is collating my information that I have gathered. I am trying to find common topics and themes to put information together. I feel the main reason I am finding this hard is the fact that everyone has their own personal experiences and it has been great to hear such a variety of points of view and opinions but it is making it more difficult now as I am looking for similarities to create subheadings within the broadness of my question. If anyone who is completing module three now has any suggestions on how they grouped/ looked at their data, this would be very helpful.
Having looked at literature that refers to collecting and grouping data, I have discovered that creating an abridged transcript has been easiest for gathering the spoken information which has make it quicker to pint point key ideas given.
I am thinking of putting my key ideas that have been presented in the interviews and within literature into a form of mind map as a clear way of presenting my data before analyzing it. I am unsure if this is the best approach to take but it will allow me to find connections, similarities and differences and to present my data all in one place.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated. If you are a fellow module three student it would be great to hear your way or ideas of grouping data.
