{"id":1584,"date":"2018-11-26T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:50:46","slug":"humans-of-data-028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/humans-of-data-028\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Data 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6261-size-size.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1586 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6261-size-size.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6261-size-size.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_6261-size-size-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I\u2018m an ethnographer.\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m not only an ethnographer, but the heftiest part of my dissertation work was ethnography.\u00a0 And as one who also has rigorous training in engineering and other natural science fields &#8211; I was surprised at how much of my research design required transformational change.<\/p>\n<p>While I did the research &#8211; as I collected data &#8211; I changed what my hypotheses were, what I\u2019d use the data for and what outcomes I\u2019d obtain from analysing the data.\u00a0 It was simultaneously confusing and exciting, but eventually I was much prouder of the outcomes than I would have been had I stuck to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lesson in valuing methodological adaptation and change.\u00a0 As researchers, we don&#8217;t know everything, and more people in science should have, and value, that experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2018m an ethnographer.\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m not only an ethnographer, but the heftiest part of my dissertation work was ethnography.\u00a0 And as one who also has rigorous training in engineering and other natural science fields &#8211; I was surprised at how much of my research design required transformational change. While I did the research &#8211; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humans-of-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}