SEMINAR | 2018 SPRING
Time: Feb. 2 (Friday) 3pm
Location: Sushi Tei (http://sushiteialbany.info)
SEMINAR | QUALITATIVE STUDY AND TEXT MINING
Ivey Hsieh, PhD Candidate
Political Science, Rockefeller College, UAlbany
April 21, 2017 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Conference Room, 259 Lark Street, Albany, NY 12210
"The atmosphere was very friendly and welcoming. It was great to see different majors/departments brought together and the qualitative research was very interesting!" ~ Colleen D. Mair ~
Text mining has emerged as a prominent research method used in the field of qualitative research. Having conducted numerous interviews in the border regions of Isarael, Yeufen (Ivey) Hsieh graciously shares with us her experiences in using NVivo to analyze qualitative data.
Several attendees wonder how they can spending less time in typing transcripts. "Well, we're living in an era of technology. You can use voice-to-text apps such as Dictation to use your time wisely, "said Ivey, "and the best thing I've learned from NVivo is that you can put video clips, audio files, and transcripts into NVivo, and it will do the tedious work for you."
Acknowledging that mixed methods research has been popular these days, Ivey encourages attendees to use multiple ways to explore a research problem. "It's always fun to run data analysis. But when we look at the numbers and ask why A (the independent variable) leads to B (the outcome variable), qualitative interviews may provide answers."
Our very first seminar was running successfully. We recruited several new graduate students and really had fun when talking about doing research. "It feels like we can do research together without feeling tired," said one attendee. An the end of this seminar, all participants agree that passion, perseverance, and patience is the key to academic achievement and success.