“Chapel Hill Was Like an Oasis”: GIS Technology in Qualitative Data Analysis

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Location

Room 2056

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Paper

Start Date

January 2013

End Date

January 2013

Abstract

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has frequently been explored as a technology supporting the visualization of findings in qualitative research. This presentation confronts the lingering perception of GIS as an exclusively quantitive tool. It concludes with a demonstration geovisualizing qualitative data from transcripts of interviews in the Southern Oral History Project as part of a recursive data analysis process.

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“Chapel Hill Was Like an Oasis”: GIS Technology in Qualitative Data Analysis

Room 2056

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has frequently been explored as a technology supporting the visualization of findings in qualitative research. This presentation confronts the lingering perception of GIS as an exclusively quantitive tool. It concludes with a demonstration geovisualizing qualitative data from transcripts of interviews in the Southern Oral History Project as part of a recursive data analysis process.