Raw urban data requires coding skills to become actionable knowledge

Evidence

Unfortunately, having enough information structurally available and knowing what to do with it are different matters. The city dweller (like all humans) needs more than raw data. He needs also to know what the raw data mean; that is, he needs to know how to code them. And he needs to know how to act under varying circumstances and with varying goals in mind vis-a-vis the coded objects; that is, he must be able to utilize the most appropriate behavioral repertoires. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 546

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Initial coding organizes raw text into researcher-driven meaningful groups — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 287