Suppose you have collected a qualitative data set for your Research Project.  As with every discussion question, explain why you reached the conclusions you did and support your position as best you can with logic and evidence.  In most of our discussion questions, there is no one clear right or wrong answer, so you must convince everyone with the quality of your position.  Let us "see" you think in your post.  Find out more information about them by looking up sound sources on the web.  Include any links you used at the end of your post so that others may read them for themselves.  With that in mind, discuss the following:

(a.)  What kind of qualitative data would it be?

(b.)  Would you adopt a variable-oriented or case-oriented strategy?

(c.)  What are the major "open" codes you would use for your first pass at these data?  Define each (you should have at least five or six).