Conducting Qualitative Data Analysis: Reading Line-by-Line, but Analyzing by Meaningful Qualitative Units

Analyzing qualitative data.

Data analysis in qualitative research is a creative process. As the instrument of data analysis, the researcher explores and reflects on the meaning of the data. In most qualitative traditions, the data analysis phase overlaps the data collection phase. As data analysis proceeds, the researcher moves back and forth between data analysis and data collection in order to create and explain the fin...

Analyzing Qualitative Data

Qualitative Reasoning for Learning by Reading: A Theoretical Analysis

One of the original motivations for qualitative reasoning was to capture the informal, intuitive notions about the continuous world that we all share, learned via a combination of experience and culture. For example, prior research suggests that qualitative dynamics can play an important role in natural language semantics. However, the constraints of everyday qualitative reasoning are different...

Line-by-line spectroscopic simulations on graphics processing units

We report here on software that performs line-by-line spectroscopic simulations on gases. Elaborate models (such as narrow band and correlated-K) are accurate and efficient for bands where various components are not simultaneously and significantly active. Line-by-line is probably the most accurate model in the infrared for blends of gases that contain high proportions of H2O and CO2 as this wa...

Tripartite Line Tracks Qualitative Curvature Information

We present a qualitative shape description which has previously been proven to be useful for object categorisation. The description is based on a set of shape primitives which we will restrict to a new subset of relations representing stylised curvature information. In contrast to other qualitative shape theories, this description enables us to distinguish different convex shapes. This is espec...