# Qualitative Analysis - Coding Overview
The heart of most forms of qualitative analysis involves coding: the segmentation, bucketing, sorting, tagging, or otherwise categorizing of portions of source materials. This workshop will include hands-on exercises and cover a variety of approaches to coding qualitative materials, including various types of codes and their uses, while also addressing the mechanics of how to code with highlighter & paper or using qualitative analysis software. It will focus on best practices and techniques for doing the work of coding, rather than on epistemological and ontological concerns, which are best handled by disciplinary methodologists in participants' specific fields.
March 2018