On the 1st of March, 2012 I started on a new 30 day challenge to kick start my data preparation process into high gear by setting what I thought was an attainable goal: transcribe for 15 minutes a day, for 30 days (see original blog post HERE). I found for the first 2 weeks, I was pretty much spot on, going everyday for at least 15 minutes, if not more! Then with teaching/admin/deadlines creeping up, I found that making this a priority became a challenge, mostly because I really hate (repeat, hate) transcribing. Looking over my stats during the last 2 weeks, it was clear that this 30 day challenge wasn’t going to be that great of a success, based on the number of days I missed.
What I found the most interesting this time around was I managed to quickly get into my data and as I began to finish transcribing whole interviews, the process of how I wanted to analysis of my data was becoming clearer. Not clear, but clearer in the sense that I was beginning to see the connections across the different cases (i.e. this is more relevant to P1 and P3 but less so in P4). Moving forward, I find that I can find the time to transcribe every week and I’m aiming to finish the last of my transcription pile by the end of May (this year).
