Week 4, 02/01/17: data as physical traces

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Data collection as observation, interpreting environmental traces, physical information, indexical phenomena, encoding traces, notational…

Week 3, 01/25/17: data from interviews

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Data from interviews, unstructured, semi-structured and structured interviews, interview techniques and tricks, protection of human subjects…

Week 2, 01/18/17 Data as archival records: literature review, citations, archival research

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Creating a literature review, managing references, citation formats, archival research…

Week 1, 01/11/17: What is (are) data? epistemology & research design

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Terminology

This entry is to serve as a glossary of terms I need to look up along the way. Not alphabetized or organized in any particular way.

Methodology: The study of methods.

Ontology: 
(1) The branch of physics dealing with the nature of being. 
(2) A set of…