Project Talk + Qualitative Data
Lecture 18
NC State University
ST 295 - Spring 2025
2025-03-18
Announcements
– Project groups are live!
– Homework-3 is live (due Monday)
– Quiz released at noon today (due Monday)
Project Talk
Ask a question you’re curious about and answer it with a dataset of your choice. This is your project in a nutshell.
This will all be done on your website! Let’s talk about it….
Project Talk: Quarto Project
All Quarto projects include a _quarto.yml configuration file. Any document rendered within the project directory will automatically inherit the metadata defined at the project level.
The configuartion file gives you a Build tab to configure all of your .qmd files together in one html website.
Demo
Project Proposal Components
For two data sets… you will
– Brief introduction
– Research question
– Literature review (practice)
– glimpse() the data
Literature Review
What is it?
Why is it important?
Literature Review
How do we do this in Quarto?
BibTex
We can make citations easily in quarto using a BibTex. A BibTex is a bibliographic tool that is used with LaTex to help the user create citations.
– Click the Visual tab
– Click Insert -> Citation
– Click From DOI and paste the DOI of the article into the text box
– Click insert
Let’s demo this together!
Example DOI
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a unique alphanumeric string assigned to digital objects like journal articles, books, and reports, providing a persistent and reliable way to identify and locate them online.
https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7920/CGP/v32i01/129-160
Questions?
Warm up
What’s the difference between qualititative and quantitative data?
How are they different in R?
Exploratory methods in qualititative research
Often look at word counts / groups of words used.
– We are going to use methods we already know/learn new functions to explore text data
– Word clouds
Check here for a workshop on qual analysis in R. This is not an expectation for ST 295.
Friends: Exploring Text Data
