Coding

Coding is how interviews are analyzed. What you do is you take, line by line, information from them and try to find what is said most.
So for example if I were to code the above statements I might say these things I found important informaiton

Coding
Analyzed
Interviews
line by line
what is most said

Sounds fun right? Well it's not. In fact it's extremely tedious and time consuming. We were given interviews to code and they were each about 6 pages long, 3 interviews is 18 pages of coding. The idea is those being interviewed are going to talk more often and in more depth about things that are important to them. So if you were to analyze this blog entry words like coding, analyze, information and interviews would probably come up most often. Wow. How amazing.

My roommate suggested that we put our coding into something called a word cloud. A word cloud generates an image based on words found in text. The larger the word in the image, the more often it comes up. It looks cool, it takes very little time, and it's a graphic representation of text. So I did that, and voila, the word cloud came to the same conclusions that I did only faster!

All interviews in the word cloud

I then thought, what happens when I use it to analyze other things? So I decided to use all the posts from September and put them into a word cloud to see what I was talking about most.

September Blog Entries

Apparently I talk a lot about people and going. It good to know that I enjoyed writing about school, work, place, teachers, education and curriculum. Environmental made a show, as well as time. Interesting stuff. Thanks word cloud for making coding more interesting!