A workshop for academic librarians on using qualitative methods for user assessment and research in the library. Part 3 focuses on coding qualitative text in light of your research questions or goals, as well as highlights one option for qualitative research software.
A workshop for academic librarians on using qualitative methods for user assessment and research in the library. Part 3 focuses on coding qualitative text in light of your research questions or goals, as well as highlights one option for qualitative research software.
This lecture is dedicated to research that aims to create new computer systems. You will learn about what is important in order to increase the rigor of your design-oriented research.
RDAP 16 Poster: Interpreting Local Data Policies in PracticeASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Poster session (Wednesday, May 4)
Presenters:
Line Pouchard, Purdue University
Donna Ferullo, Purdue University
These interview questions were used in the 16 interviews held with visual arts researchers as part of the Kaptur project environmental assessment report.
This lecture is dedicated to research that aims to create new computer systems. You will learn about what is important in order to increase the rigor of your design-oriented research.
RDAP 16 Poster: Interpreting Local Data Policies in PracticeASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Poster session (Wednesday, May 4)
Presenters:
Line Pouchard, Purdue University
Donna Ferullo, Purdue University
These interview questions were used in the 16 interviews held with visual arts researchers as part of the Kaptur project environmental assessment report.
Qualitative Research Methods by Paulino Silva - ECSM2015Paulino Silva
Presentation slides from the Seminar "Qualitative Research Methods" conducted during the European Conference on Social Media 2015 (ECSM2015) in Porto, Portugal.
Non-numerical – converse of quantitative data
Typically word based – but may include imagery, video, etc.
Can record attitudes, behaviours, experiences, motivations, etc.
Descriptive – describing events/opinions etc.
Explanatory – explaining events/opinions etc.
Introduction
In life, there are universal laws that govern everything we do. These laws are so perfect that if you were to align yourself with them, you could have so much prosperity that it would be coming out of your ears. This is because God created the universe in the image and likeness of him. It is failure to follow the universal laws that causes one to fail. The laws that were created consisted of the following: ·
Law of Gratitude: The Law of Gratitude states that you must show gratitude for what you have. By having gratitude, you speed your growth and success faster than you normally would. This is because if you appreciate the things you have, even if they are small things, you are open to receiving more.
Law of Attraction: The Law of Attraction states that if you focus your attention on something long enough you will get it. It all starts in the mind. You think of something and when you think of it, you manifest that in your life. This could be a mental picture of a check or actual cash, but you think about it with an image.
Law of Karma: the Law of Karma states that if you go out and do something bad, it will come back to you with something bad. If you do well for others, good things happen to you. The principle here is to know you can create good or bad through your actions. There will always be an effect no matter what.
Law of Love: the Law of Love states that love is more than emotion or feeling; it is energy. It has substance and can be felt. Love is also considered acceptance of oneself or others. This means that no matter what you do in life if you do not approach or leave the situation out of love, it won't work.
Law of Allowing: The Law of Allowing states that for us to get what we want, we must be receptive to it. We can't merely say to the Universe that we want something if we don't allow ourselves to receive it. This will defeat our purpose for wanting it in the first place.
Law of Vibration: the Law of Vibration states that if you wish on something and use your thoughts to visualize it, you are halfway there to get it. To complete the cycle you must use the Law of Vibration to feel part of what you want. Do this and you'll have anything you want in life.
For everything to function properly there has to be structure. Without structure, our world, or universe, would be in utter chaos. Successful people understand universal laws and apply them daily. They may not acknowledge that to you, but they do follow the laws. There is a higher power and this higher power controls the universe and what we get out of it. People who know this, but wish to direct their own lives, follow the reasons. Successful people don't sit around and say "I'll try," they say yes and act on it.
Chapter - 1
The Law of Attraction
The law of attraction is the most powerful force in the universe. If you work against it, it can only bring you pain and misery. Successful people know this but have kept it hidden from the lower class for centuries because th
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-11-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
Preservation Planning using Plato, by Hannes Kulovits and Andreas RauberJISC KeepIt project
This presentation, part of an extensive practical tutorial on logical and bit-stream preservation using Plato (a preservation planning tool) and EPrints (software for creating digital repositories), reviews preservation planning workflow, shows how to identify requirements using a mindmap approach and then how to upload the output to Plato to run experiments and produce results. The presentation was given as part of module 4 of a 5-module course on digital preservation tools for repository managers, presented by the JISC KeepIt project. For more on this and other presentations in this course look for the tag ’KeepIt course’ in the project blog http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/keepit/
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course taught in the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-06-09. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
Review the steps involved in the research process (identifying the research problem, reviewing the literature, planning/design, collecting, analyzing storing & sharing data, quality control).
Identify the latest technology tools and apps (mobile, cloud-based, web-based) available for Lecturers and Librarians to utilize at each stage of the research process.
Introduce a range of emerging technology tools to enable researchers to conceptualize, conduct and complete research projects.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-05-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-02-22. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-02-23. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-05-20. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
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The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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Knowledge engineering: from people to machines and back
Qualitative technologies
1. Using Technology in the
Qualitative Research Process
Carla Piper, Ed. D.
Brandman University
2. Types of Technology
On-line research, communication, and
collaboration
Word Processing – type and save text
files digitally
Code and analyze text in Ethnograph
Spreadsheet - Excel
Create charts and graphs demonstrated
results of study
Provide visual representation of data
Powerpoint multimedia presentation of
results of the study for colleagues
3. Word Processing
Create digital files of all text generated
in study
Field Journal Entries
Reflections/Memos
Observations/Notetaking/Descriptions
Survey Results
Interview Transcriptions
Audio and Video Transcriptions
E-mail/Phone Communications
Select “save as text” – available for all
computer formats
5. Ethnograph 5.0
Complex program with many
dimensions and possible levels of use
Used for extensive long-term studies
when a variety of information is
gathered from multiple sources -
sociological, health, ethnographic,
educational, socio-economic, etc.
Helps to understand what is really
happening with individuals in a
particular society
Seidell (1998)
6. Qualitative Research
Paradigm
Inductive Process
Naturalistic Inquiry
Discover critical themes and patterns as they
emerge from the data
Seek out details to understand diverse and
unique experiences of each individual
Examine multiple realities
Exploratory in nature
Requires non-standardized methods of
investigation
Patton – 1980 & 1990
Lincoln & Guba - 1985
7. Human as Instrument
Can interact with the situation
Can be responsive to environmental clues
Can provide immediate feedback
Can request verification of data
Collects information at multiple levels
simultaneously
Explores atypical or unexpected responses
Processes data as soon as they become
available
Maintains “empathetic neutrality” Patton, 1980
Lincoln & Guba, 1985
Hoepfl, 1997
8. Trustworthiness of Study
Triangulation of multiple sources of data
Maintain an audit trail
Establish dependability and confirmability of
the study
Hard copies, disks, audio/video tapes,
interview transcriptions, etc.
Maintain process notes – researcher’s
diary, memos, field observations, etc.
Record intentions and dispositions
Develop valid instruments – interviews,
surveys, questionnaires
Patton - 1980
9. Appropriate Analysis
“Working with data, organizing it,
breaking it into manageable units,
synthesizing it, searching for
patterns, discovering what is
important and what is to be
learned, and deciding what you will
tell others"
Bogdan and Biklen (1982)
10. QDA - Qualitative Data Analysis
Noticing
Producing a record of what you notice
As you notice, you code with descriptive
meanings
Collecting – sorting, classifying,
synthesizing, summarizing, indexing
Thinking
Making sense out the pieces
Looking for patterns and relationships
Making general discoveries
Seidell, 1998 – Ethnograph Author
11. The Cycle – Constant Spiral
Notice Things
Collect
Things
Think About
Things
12. “A little bit of data and a lot of
right brain”
“The critical way of seeing, in my
experience at least, comes out of
numerous cycles through a little bit of
data, massive amounts of thinking
about the data, and slippery things like
intuition and serendipity.” Agar, 1991
13. Ethnograph helps you…
Compile
Import data files
Reformats text – 40 character/hanging indent
Numbers each line of the text
Organize
Code data files
Add contextual comments, identifiers, memos
Identify and name interesting things
Manipulate
Search for coded segments
Bring order to the data
“Sort and sift”
Compare and contrast
14. Basic Process
Create new project (with “child” sub
projects)
Import ALL typed text into project
Code and index text
Look for emerging topics of interest
Create a hierarchical family codebook
indexing key terms
Search codes to find, count, examine,
and organize data segments
