Archive for 'Balochistan'

Finalizing samples collected

Groups gathered to finalize the samples. Waiting for lecturer’s guidance to move forward.

Sample collection and coding

It is not easy to gather sample and to code accordingly as per the indicators. Any way, I enjoyed with my team mates espirit-decorps working daily more than 12 hours daily. I should say I am almost done with sample collection and coding. After discussing with my group, it is ready to be presented to [...]

Pre test coding social media

We have  conducted the coding for the social media (100 tweets) using the inter reliability coding test . It was really time consuming . As the tweets might seem simple , with only 140 words to deal with, but its a tedious job and requires much concentration .

Pretest Data collection

We have done an inter Coder reliability test  for 20 articles from the news papers . pretest should be conducted soon.

pre-test doubt

Phillipp , We are using the Recal reliability test. We want to know if we should calculate for Ordinal or Ratio Level data  ?

Data collection for inter reliability coding test

Group leader and my group mates are energetic working till 230 am, getting trained ourself in recording data. I appreciate your stamina and lets work tomorrow till 3 am. Hopefully pretest will work

Pre-test

We have started coding the traditional media (20 articles) using the inter reliability coding test . It was really time consuming . Have to get started with social media soon . We will pre-test it tomorrow .

Very informative little video

http://www.samaa.tv/samaavideolist.aspx?ID=4068

Traditional Media intercoder reliability.

We have started to do this reliability stuff, and it’s taking a very long time. We started doing the independent testing and will hopefully get everything ready to send into ReCal tonight.. Then tomorrow, if everything goes well with this test, we’ll move on to the social media reliability discussion and test.. Hopefully all this [...]

Meeting

Meeting today at 11 to go over the pretests, figure out Saima’s banned newspaper issue and start the data collection.. Hopefully Aruchi’s awake.. I’ll be my regular five minutes late.

Balouch Hal news paper

Dear Philip I just realized that Balouch Hal the first english on line news paper  from baluchistan is banned in pakistan,  how ever it still continues to publish probably from out side pakistan . i had collected about 6 articles from there   but now i really dont know  that should i focus on this news paper [...]

Pretested one of the Articles

pretested an article from The news on our newly developed spreadsheet.It looks fine. I have read three articles from the news paper Baloch Hal as well.Wangchucla is reading the articles from The News . Bradley is looking after the tweets and Aruchi is preparing the final spreadsheet so that we can do few other pretests [...]