[Informatics] Codifying Data

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Before crowdsourcing a verdict, Romans would codify gladetorial performances with a simple binary thumb up or down gesture. Even Chuck Norris got into the act. Now I watch students trying to codify their emotions using emoji .. (perhaps I shouldn’t have said that)



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Roland GESTHUIZEN
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> On 16 May 2017, at 3:16 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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> Hi Benjamin 
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> A quick example: an interview with shoppers yields these comments about the level of service they received:
> "Pretty good" - coded as 5/10
> "Excellent" - coded as 9/10
> "Fantastic!" - coded as 10/10
> "My pig could've done better" - coded as 1/10
> "My sister's dead pig could've done better" - coded as 0/10
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> The coding often requires human judgement, resulting in some subjectiveness in the quantitative results.
> This need for judgement will increase the cost and time required for coding the qualitative data.
> Researchers may give coders a rubric to guide their coding decisions, such as listing key words and equivalent code values.
> e.g. 
> "Good" == 5/10
> "Excellent" == 9/10 
> Any reference to "pigs doing better" == 1 or less.
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> Regards,
> Mark
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> On 16 May 2017 at 14:35, Baas, Benjamin B <baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Sorry if these questions have been asked before. 
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> First time teaching Informatics (did teach Applications previously) and I was wondering how people taught codifying data? Also as I have never had to do this before does any one have an ELI5 (explain like I am 5) version of what codifying qualitative data is. Any resources would be greatly appreciated.
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> Cheers,
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> Ben.
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> Benjamin Baas
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