And so, in March the Long Island Idea Factory was introduced as a way to throw ideas out into the public sphere and to offer online avenues for people and institutions to share information, data and ideas about Long Island, a place sorely lacking in unifying structures.
Although not directly transferable, since the incubations were done on a "real" sediment with a rougher surface while in the characterizations a PVC plate simulated the sediments surface, these data give ideas about the prevailing hydrodynamic condition in the chambers during the incubations.
Data collection and analysis followed theoretical sampling which "involves starting with the data, constructing tentative ideas about the data, and then examining these ideas through further empirical inquiry" [ 34],p102".Quite possibly you might ask participants further questions or inquire about experiences that you had not covered before" [ 34],p1034]
We used a combination of mapping, household and key informant interviews, and participant observation to collect qualitative data on religious ideas about the environment, environmental policies, the cultural landscape, ritual practices towards local gods, and livelihoods.
Undergraduate student responses in which differences were perceived (n = 110) then underwent thematic analysis using a "grounded theory" approach (Corbin and Strauss, 1990; LeCompte, 2000) in which the researchers let the results emerge from the data without preconceived ideas about what students might articulate.
If you're gathering data about ideas you already know, you probably want to lean on structured questions.
Founded by Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the institute hosts sessions from world-class open data experts to develop new ideas about how to use open data, in its role as a catalyst for a global open data culture, with economic, environmental and social benefits.
Some of their insights also happen to run contrary to public data and commonly-accepted ideas about physician behavior.
Professor Martin Vanderploeg, now 41, convinced an old college buddy from Michigan State, Matthew Rizai, to come to Iowa and turn some of their ideas about data displays into a viable company.
The dialogues had various aims: discussing the data, inventorying wishes, exchanging ideas about issues and solutions, and selecting themes (e.g., by using a 'world café', roundtable talks and thematic meetings) [ 20].
It was really this motivation that got us into modeling and has led us to try and use modeling side by side with the experimental work to help us interpret data and to develop ideas about new experiments.
