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  • Welcome
    • Course Overview
      • Trainer Bio
    • Eligibility and Requirements
      • Support
    • Assessment
    • Dates and Times
  • Module 1: Introduction to NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Getting Started
    • 2. What is NVivo?
    • 3. Importing Files into NVivo
    • 4. Coding Files in NVivo
  • Module 2: Organising Nodes and Coding Cases in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Organising Your Coding
    • 2. Case Classifications
    • 3. Cases
    • 4. Sentiment Analysis
  • Module 3: Keeping Track of Your Research in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Memos
    • 2. Annotations
    • 3. File Classifications
    • 4. Project Maps
  • Module 4: Creating Visualisations in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Understanding Queries
    • 2. Matrix Coding and Cross-Tabulation
    • 3. Hierarchy Charts
    • 4. Bar Charts
  • Module 5: How to Write a Literature Review in NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. Importing Reference Data
    • 2. Managing Reference Data
    • 3. Writing a Literature Review from NVivo
    • 4. Systematic Reviews and NVivo
  • Module 6: Web Scraping and NVivo
    • Workshop Description
    • 1. NCapture
    • 2. Twitter Data
    • 3. Autocoding in NVivo
    • 4. Alternative Approaches
  • Further Resources
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  • What is Project Map?
  • What is Project Map Good For?
  • Video: Project Maps
  • Task: Creating a Project Map
  • Wrapping up
  • Thank You!

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What is Project Map?

A project map is a graphic representation of all the items in your project. These items are things like memos, nodes, annotations, files, cases, and classifications. Essentially any individual piece of data in NVivo can be represented in a project map

What is Project Map Good For?

Project maps are important ways of exploring and engaging with your research. They can be a create tool to identify patterns, to build theories, and to develop ideas. They can also be used to record research stage that you are in during your project, and multiple maps can help to track your thinking and research over time.

Video: Project Maps

Task: Creating a Project Map

  1. Using the files, nodes, and cases that we've been working on throughout this course, try to create a project map to explain and explore your research.

I've found that the best way to test whether my project map makes sense, is to try explaining it as if I were presenting in front of people at a conference or lecture

Wrapping up

This module has aimed to introduce you to the key ways that NVivo can help you manage your research data. We've looked at memos, annotations, file classifications, and project maps to accomplish this

By the end of this module, you should know how to:

  • Create a memo

  • Write annotations

  • Create a file classification and assign values to attributes

  • Design and create a project map

More broadly, I hope this module has introduced key methodological concepts around research data management such as the importance of metadata.

In the next module, you'll explore the ways in which you can create a range of visualisations in NVivo to derive valuable research insights and to maybe answer that pesky research question.

Thank You!

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If you have any questions about this module, or NVivo more broadly, you can get in touch with Alex via email at alex.shermon@unimelb.edu.au

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This module was prepared by Alex Shermon. You can follow him on Twitter or on LinkedIn .

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NVivo 12: Project maps by Hull Uni Library (2019)