bachelor dad and doing data analysis. yoojin is so good and helpful. ok he does not always do what he is told, but he is cute about asking and tries to do what is right. if you ask him--sometimes it takes ten or fifteen tries--he will do something. he honestly wants to help--particularly when you make brownies.
first thing I did this morning was some simple counting of the words that clearly fit into the basic emotions categories, as well as establishing the clusters of words that represent the intensity of each emotion. then put those numbers in a spreadsheet. then wrapped up the little bits of paper and made mini envelopes for them. all that left the table much less crowded, but unfortunately that is the way that it stayed most of the the day . . . cooking and cleaning and eating with yoojin.
finally, however, yoojin finished his day and went to sleep, so my own anxiety kept me up working on the remaining sixty percent of the not satisfactorily 'basic' emotion words that I had indexed from the transcripts . . . ended up with around 8-10 clusters in this group that do not clearly fit into the 6 basic emotions. clusters like: general anxiety, bad characteristics with embedded emotions (eg. "bastard"), or embarrassment and guilt. still a few words did not fit well in any of these clusters. anyway, those slips of paper are still on the table to be tabulated and packaged up. will do that first thing in the morning.
read yoonhwa's peer review notes. I think I understood them . . . a couple of questions to ask . . . and then I have to do what she recommended.
what else to do:
- conduct a secondary coding of the data.
- code the different behavioral characteristics: kinesic, proxemic, or whatever.
- look at how the participants coded the basic emotions and of their intensity.
- outline chapter 4
- revise the methodology section regarding data collection and data analysis.
- look at the edits for the first three chapters.
- write my advisor.
- contact the program and register for courses.
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