Lyn Richards said:
> There are uses for this sort of first-stage scoop coding that
> are quite new to qualitative computing. I've found with N4 that this
> sort of scooping-up of data gives a nice way of re-seeing themes - you
> get surprising juxtapositions of material, or passages you'd missed, and
> you can move between the finds and the context re-viewing, removing
> material that shouldn't be there and expanding context appropriately.
> And then by coding-on you can store these new ideas and pursue them.
> Wouldn't call that "autocoding", though...
>
One of the uses I most appreciate for autocoding is the
quick-check-of-a-mid-project-idea - QCOAMPI? I recall that when I was
evaluating NUD*IST on a project, it occurred to me half-way through the
coding that "door" was an important metaphor for my informant. I was
able to autocode on the words "door" and "doors" and discover in about
20 seconds that yes indeed, this *was* an important idea. Because the
software's autocoding facilitated the QCOAMPI, I could follow up on what
might be hare-brained idea without sacrificing hours to it. And because
I did, I confirmed something important. I was very grateful.
Birrell Walsh
MicroTimes
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|