Finding My Way Through Data

So, one thing I knew from the very beginning was that the process of pursuing a PhD is a lonely journey. In the sense that one has got to figure out the ideas, and pave some kind of writing to express your novel contribution to the scientific community. Moral and academic support is always there, but...it is up to oneself to sort out the mess of ideas, and write them out.

See, I am currently doing data analysis for what is supposed to be valuable input to my research. I am using grounded theory, GT (a story for another day). Working with qualitative data i.e. words instead of figures, is appealing to my mind, but it is a very long, iterative process that sometimes leaves you feeling lost as I happen to be feeling now. Btw, I could handle figures too if I wanted to, but after a double major BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics, I decided I did not want to have a deep friendship with Maths again.

Anyway, back to my sense of loss in overwhelming amount of data - I know I just need to keep at it, and somehow, in the process....the pieces of data will fall in place. But you see, I ain't got much time, so I kinda need to get this done before things run out of hand.

Have to go back to my data now....I will be back.

Transition...continued

So, it has been over two years since my last blog. I got inspired to reconsider blogging again after reading a friends blog. The reason I have not been active is that I feel I will not have time to write and post blogs. But, I promised myself, and my inspiring friend that I would give it a try again.

Here I am. Just as I had sensed that a move would soon befall me, it happened that half a year later, I was on my way back to Finland. Back to school again, this time to pursue a PhD, after a lot of thought and prayer, and faith that I was actually doing the best thing for me at the time. A lot has happened since then, and I hope that I can feature some of it as time goes.

I am at a good place in my life right now...and I am thankful to God for his love, grace and faithfulness.

I will try to keep posting..