This week’s topics
Data Organization and Presentation
- Descriptive statistics
- Thematic coding
- Tabular and graphical data presentation
- Preliminary pattern recognition
- Thematic analysis of qualitative data: an overview
- Descriptive Statistics: FULL Tutorial - Mean, Median, Mode, Variance & SD (With Examples)
- Thematic analysis | How to present qualitative findings (4 mistakes)
- Open Data Course: Visualization and Analysis Tools
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Collect and present relevant data as outlined by the research specification.
- 3.3 Interpret and analyse the results in relation to the research specification.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: collect and present relevant data as outlined by the research specification.
Study materials
Videos
- Thematic analysis of qualitative data: an overview · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 11 min · for registered students
- Descriptive Statistics: FULL Tutorial - Mean, Median, Mode, Variance & SD (With Examples) · YouTube · Grad Coach · 13 min · for registered students
- Thematic analysis | How to present qualitative findings (4 mistakes) · YouTube · Qualitative Researcher Dr Kriukow · 18 min · for registered students
- Open Data Course: Visualization and Analysis Tools · YouTube · TU Delft · 9 min · for registered students
- Session 3A: Descriptive Statistics - Applications in Finance & Investing · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 21 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Introductory Business Statistics 2e, ch. 2: Descriptive Statistics · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 57–148 · for registered students
- Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
- Research Methods in Psychology, ch. 12: Descriptive Statistics · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 300–341 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.