Initial coding organizes raw text into researcher-driven meaningful groups

Evidence

The second step of TA includes generating codes from the data. Coding is typically an initial way of organizing the textual data into meaningful groups by identifying a feature of the data that is interesting or relevant to the researcher. — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 287

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 287
• XREF: connects to: Initial coding balanced emergent grounded themes against the study’s pragmatic aims — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 271; Interpretive codes function as modes of attention directed at textual phenomena — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1686; Raw urban data requires coding skills to become actionable knowledge — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 546 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Interpretive codes function as modes of attention directed at textual phenomena #expands (0.88) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1686
• Initial coding balanced emergent grounded themes against the study’s pragmatic aims #qualifies (0.82) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 271
• Connotative codes make social knowledge thinkable by mapping meanings onto signs #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 902
• Raw urban data requires coding skills to become actionable knowledge #exemplifies (0.78) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 546
• Data circulation requires compressing semantically rich behavior into discrete tags. #corroborates (0.76) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 72