1. Maps, tables, flow charts and diagrams in Qualitative Data Analysis

2. Use for… Clarification in elicitation process (share with respondents)
Develop ideas about a model, processes etc.
Illustrate examples and your argument
Lay out data so that patterns can be discovered
Data reduction

3. Domain analysis
Examination of what some term or concept means for a culture or subgroup
Can be expressed as a taxonomy
Captures relationships. Hierarchical system of types. Each type has ‘children’ subtypes that are mutually exclusive and do not have different parents.

5. Miles, M. B. and Huberman, A. M
Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. (1994) Qualitative data analysis: a sourcebook of new methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. p. 133

6. Componetial analysis
What attributes does an individual or thing have?

7. Componential analysis of services for the unemployed
For young
For older
Training
Advice
Adult Training - +
Youth Training
Training Access Points
Work Link
BCEATA
Start-up Business Units
Business Access Scheme
Workers Co-operatives
CEASA
Careers Service
Redundancy Counseling

8. Matrices Simple, like crosstabs. Exclusive values in each cell Or
Non-exclusive values in each cell
See: Ritchie, J. and Lewis, J. (eds) (2003) Qualitative Research Practice: A Guide for Social Science Students and Researchers. London: Sage.

9. Example qualitative table. Descriptions of people with degrees

10. Character of company departments

11. Summary responses by codes
Cells contain typical or summaries of text from respondents
E.g. Job search strategies by gender

12. Job search strategies by gender

13. Case by codes with exemplars
Example of a comparison between cases
These are good for investigating differences by code or by case

15. Time ordered matrix Example of a comparison within a single case.
e.g. influence of time on code type.

16. Example of a comparison within a single case

17. Tables or matrices cont.
Tables can include counts, e.g. Size of coded text (number of words) or no. of coded chunks of text
This may indicate importance or salience (or not?)

18. Quasi-quantitative.
Recode or categorize the concept/variable. E.g. into high or low, good or bad etc.
Cf. Grounded theory idea of properties and dimensions.

19. Summed indices A way of creating a new variable and ordering cases.
N.B. use cut and paste in word processor to order the lines.
These can be used to produce…

20. Miles, M. B. and Huberman, A. M
Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. (1994) Qualitative data analysis: a sourcebook of new methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. p. 194

21. Scatter plot with movement over time
Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. (1994) Qualitative data analysis: a sourcebook of new methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. p. 199

22. Cluster plot of cases Job searching

23. Maps Use different shapes to represent different ideas
Use different lines to represent different relationships
Arrows for direction, + or - for positive or negative influence.

24. Event state network Events States Quit job Redundancy
End of short-term contract
Leave School or college
Interview
Careers advice
Training
Job offer
Unemployed
Routine searching
Entrepreneurial searching
Looking for work
Half looking for work
New social relations
In work

26. Venn Diagrams
To show set of objects, cases etc and their relationships.

27. Flow charts
Input, output, decisions, processing of inputs to produce outputs.
E.g. entry to University, exams and final degree. Admission to day centre for persons with learning difficulties.
Can show flow of people through system, or flow or one person/case through system of decision making.
Can use to compare cases.

28. Flow of people through job finding services

29. Example decision flowchart

30. Miles, M. B. and Huberman, A. M
Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. (1994) Qualitative data analysis: a sourcebook of new methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. p. 186.

31. Causal diagram
Special case of the map, where the connecting line shows causation…

32. Miles, M. B. and Huberman, A. M
Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. (1994) Qualitative data analysis: a sourcebook of new methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. p. 225.

33. Organizational charts.
Shows units in an organization and the relationship between them. Relation can be, reports to, is boss of, sends papers to, receives good from etc. (e.g. School diagram).