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The next study took a more severe retro software aesthetic turn and focussed on more detail in the elements that could be identified in a series of meetings. And having finally sourced a copy of the Ken Garland game of “Connect”<\/a> it was natural that these elements should be traced between meetings\u00a0by the red, black and blue lines of his surrogate tube map. Let’s say Red for the People, Blue for the Objects, Black for Ideas. Inadvertently, and in the context of recent moves within the Labour party, this scheme seems to also map some kind of political landscape quite well. I’m not attached to this schema as a representation of \u00a0the data, a dose of ANT helped to mollify the urge\u00a0for blunt\u00a0categories, but\u00a0we might keep the red (or black?) flag flying here for a while yet. But Prezi doesn’t really step up to the mark when it comes to analysis in the way\u00a0that software like ATLAS.ti or nVivo does. The text handling is poor. It doesn’t like having a 3000 line text object on screen. At all. The search facility is absent. There is no theory builder or codebook.<\/p>\n But there still seems to be something in it that hasn’t quite been exhausted.\u00a0The wide open canvas, the free panning and zooming and the lack of a constraining conceptual interface is compelling. It’s like something from the sixties.<\/p>\n The interface it does have can be a little fiddly when you’re trying to select and move very long and thin lines around the canvas for example.\u00a0But these limitations can be worked around and the freedom of movement and thought that it provides is a great way of familiarising yourself with your data.<\/p>\n The full text of the articles can be read at full zoom. And at the other end of the scale, of\u00a0building up a picture of what this data might mean to your research where a thesis map can be built as an overview that contains the theory, the data and the results. It’s like walking into the hut where Carlos Castaneda sits with an old woman and the perspective lines of the floor shift around and give way to the soaring clouds of a shamanic imagination. Sort of…well, it supports some kind of\u00a0creativity anyway. It also gives you an online presentation of your work as a free bonus and a collaborative platform if you want to build\u00a0stuff with colleagues or share with supervisors.<\/p>\n I’m not quite sure I’ve fully explored its potential yet and as thesis writing deadlines creep ever closer (whatever happened to that third year? whatever happened to today?) I’m not sure if I will manage to do so in the next few months.<\/p>\n
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