Mini Symposium: Textual Analysis in Mixed Methods

Mini Symposium:  Textual Analysis in Mixed Methods
Mini Symposium: Textual Analysis in Mixed Methods

Principal speaker

Ausma Benot

Other speakers

Dr Judy Rose, Daniela Vasco, Edith Gomez Quintanilla, Gabriel Paes Herrera, Franscisco Garcia


The stats-in-action mini-symposia on methods involving statistics (including mixed methods) are designed to showcase the variety of ways in which Griffith researchers and friends have put statistics to good use, in practice, to support an evidence-based approach to research.

Technological developments have changed the ways in which we analyse textual data. So, this symposium explores both manual and automated techniques for coding and subsequent textual analysis. By exploring different techniques for "big data"-powered textual analysis, as well as manual methods, we provide a platform to understand the expanding possibilities of textual analysis within a mixed research methods approach.

Agenda

11.00 am - Welcome by Ausma Bernot

11.05 am - Survey and Coding of Textual and Audo Data in Community Based Participatory Research
Speaker: Ausma Bernot
How can research facilitate the uncovering of vulnerable community strengths and needs nationally for policy‐making decisions? What are the community‐wide needs and required skills that can inform the direction for policy changes?

11.40 am - To be or not to be? From qual-QUAN-to QUAL - QUAL - Quan
Speaker: Edith Gomez Quintanilla
A key focus for the horticulture industry is to address how fresh produce is harvested, packed, and transported to minimise loss of quality, reduce wastage and improve quality consistency. Although, technologies have been developed to monitor temperature and other environmental factors, uptake is low. My PhD research attempts to bridge the gap by determining what factors influence and/or dissuade adoption of digital monitoring technologies in Australian horticulture.

12.20 pm - Break

1.20 pm - Identifying connectedness in individual and group artifacts during a graduate summer school in interdisciplinary research
Speaker: Daniela Vasco
The shift to interdisciplinary structures for environmental problem‐solving, but also research more broadly, requires researchers to be able to integrate knowledge, insights and methods of working from their discipline with those of colleagues and communities engaged in solving the same "wicked' problem. Does use of connections between knowledge gained from interdisciplinary collaboration impact final project design?

2.00 pm - Mixed Methods analysis of spoken text: An Inductive and deductive approach to coding themes using qualitative analysis software
Speaker: Dr Judy Rose
This research is part of an Australian Research Council, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia project conducted to examine the problems around the use of big data for social policy. There was a need to interview experts and stakeholders about the benefits and risks of a range of big data technologies including data linkage. What are the benefits and risks of using big data techniques such as data linkage?

2.40 pm - Break

3.00 pm - Social Media Posts and Stock Prices
Speaker: Gabriel Paes Herrera
Transform opinions, news and general textual data into quantitative data so that it can be used as input in different analyses. Does the sentiment of investors expressed on social media affect companies' stock prices?

3.30 pm - Automated coding to classify question types in forensic interviews using R
Speaker: Francisco Garcia
The type of the questions used in investigative interviews (e.g., open‐ended, closed) can have a major impact on the accuracy and detail of the responses. To measure question types most studies in the field follow a double‐blind coding method, which is usually time‐consuming and not‐exempt from error. Although question types are defined by their wording (e.g., a combination of words that makes a closed question), few studies have considered words as units of analyses. This study aims to automate a coding of different question types from their wording and test it in a sample of transcripts of forensic interviews conducted in Australia.

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Further Details
Please follow the below link for a full breakdown of each discussion.

Book of Abstracts - MiniSym - Textual Analysis in MM - Oct2020 v3.pdf

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