Principles of Ecology — This past week, I had my first two lectures of what will be a three-month course in becoming a certified California Docent Naturalist. …

Deriving meaning from large, complex sets of interview data is the bread and butter of a qualitative researcher’s job. It’s a gratifying task — but a tedious one too. We spend hours reading and re-reading conversations we’ve had with participants, attempting to pull out patterns and through-lines (“coding”, as we…