How to manage and organize qualitative data Summary

In what ways could a researcher manage and organize qualitative data
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Qualitative data
Qualitative research results in voluminous and a variety of data from multiple sources. This is sometimes overwhelming. Sources may include surveys, observation notes, personal interviews, official documents, or questionnaires. Numerous participants or respondents and researchers are also involved, making data coding and extricating from multiple sources difficult. This can be only possible when the data is appropriately organized (Phelps, Ellis & Fisher, 2007). This paper seeks to discuss the ways in which a researcher could manage and organize qualitative data.
In order to manage and organize qualitative data, researcher needs to go through the following process:
* Review the whole data set for the patterns and themes to emerge and assign symbols or numbers to designate data categories.
* Create a table of codes to enable consistency of the codes and accessible for numerous researchers.
* Data is separated i...