Grounded Visualization: Integrating the Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data through Grounded Theory and Visualization
By Ladona Knigge, M. Cope. 2006
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Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual. We use Knigge's work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed methods.
Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Global and Planetary Change
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- Community food security via urban agriculture: Understanding people, place, economy, and accessibility from a food justice perspective (2012, methodology): “A smaller group has used mixed-methods or a qualitative GIS approach to combine these two types of research (Corrigan, 2011; Knigge & Cope, 2006).”
- Geo-Narrative: Extending Geographic Information Systems for Narrative Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research (2008, methodology): “Drawing on recent work in feminist and critical GIS, they show that grounded theory and visualization can be used together to “con-struct an integrated analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual” (Knigge and Cope 2006, 2021).”
- The situational factors that affect the software development process: Towards a comprehensive reference framework (2012, background): “The purpose of Grounded Theory is to “build theories from data about the social world such that theories are ‘grounded’ in people's everyday experiences and actions” [73].”
- Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs (2012, background): “However, Jin-Kyu Jung (2009) has used a Visual Basic application to integrate GIS with CAQDAS in a technique he calls ‘‘computer-aided qualitative GIS (CAQ-GIS).’’.”