Step 5: Data analysis
“But when judges judge straight, for neighbors
As well as for strangers, and never turn their backs
On Justice, their city blossoms, their people bloom.”
- Hesiod: Works & Days, Theogony, Translated by Stanley Lombardo at University of Kansas74
Summary:
- The core team, having completed data collection, analyzes the data depending on its character as qualitative or quantitative information.
- Data is recorded and reviewed, and initial findings are identified.
At the start of this step, you should already have designed and implemented your data collection methodology, and now results have begun to come in. This section shares lessons on data analysis, provides troubleshooting advice if data collection is not going as planned and offers suggestions on how to know if you have collected enough data.