{"id":634,"date":"2019-07-07T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/?page_id=634"},"modified":"2019-07-07T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:39:09","slug":"interpretive-theming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-4-analyzing-qualitative-or-unstructured-data\/interpretive-theming\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretive Theming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interpretive theming is a type of qualitative data categorization or coding in which your themes or codes arise out of your data. Most of our analysis when dealing with unstructured data is likely to employ interpretive thematic analysis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To analyze data interpretively, follow these steps:\n<ul>\n<li>Read through your data 2-3 times in full to get a sense of broad ideas, themes and recurring patterns.\n<ul>\n<li>Write notes or memos as you go to keep track of what you are seeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Slowly go through the text in order to theme or code your data. Using different colored pens, highlight or underline the patterns that you see, color coding different sections of the text to identify categories.\n<ul>\n<li>Alternately, keep an excel spreadsheet which includes columns for the section of text and the category or theme that you are assigning to it.<\/li>\n<li>Keep detailed notes on your theme, and how you identify it. As you go, create a coding guide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once you have gone through the text and coded the themes that you feel belong together, complete a second pass at your data to ensure you haven\u2019t missed anything.\n<ul>\n<li>Adapt your coding guide as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After at least 2 passes of coding, examine your codes or themes \u2013 can any of them be merged together? If so merge them and adapt your coding guide appropriately.<\/li>\n<li>If possible, have a second coder code a portion of the data using your coding guide.<\/li>\n<li>Compare results, and if necessary discuss discrepancies.\n<ul>\n<li>Amend your coding guide and your data analysis if need be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Continue working with a second coder to code sections until both coders are in agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inductive theming can feel very subjective, so many new researchers want to know how they can be sure their theming is actually accurate for the purposes of understanding their data. This important video from Mod-U helps to show how you turn intuition into logical reasoning in the process of the inductive theming of qualitative data (3.5 mins):<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"How to Know You Are Coding Correctly: Qualitative Research Methods\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iL7Ww5kpnIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-4-analyzing-qualitative-or-unstructured-data\/deductive-theming\/\">Next: Deductive theming<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-4-analyzing-qualitative-or-unstructured-data\/\">&lt;&lt;Back to Analyzing Qualitative Data<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interpretive theming is a type of qualitative data categorization or coding in which your themes or codes arise out of your data. Most of our analysis when dealing with unstructured data is likely to employ interpretive thematic analysis. To analyze data interpretively, follow these steps: Read through your data 2-3 times in full to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"parent":615,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634\/revisions\/699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}