Integrating Visual Analytics Support for Grounded Theory Practice in Qualitative Text Analysis

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 201 - 212
• Main Authors: Chandrasegaran, Senthil, Badam, Sriram Karthik, Kisselburgh, Lorraine, Ramani, Karthik, Elmqvist, Niklas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Analytics; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Data analysis; Data mining; Grounded theory; H.5.2 [Computer Graphics]: Information Interfaces and Presentation—User Interfaces—Interaction styles; Identification methods; Information retrieval; Marking; Mathematical analysis; Natural language processing; Qualitative analysis; Qualitative research; Speech; Text analysis; Theory; Unstructured data

We present an argument for using visual analytics to aid Grounded Theory methodologies in qualitative data analysis. Grounded theory methods involve the inductive analysis of data to generate novel insights and theoretical constructs. Making sense of unstructured text data is uniquely suited for vis...