10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Upon my experience at the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, I realized the following:

- Important to utilize on-line tools for managing literature reviews and academic articles
- One of the presentations that I attended touched upon the notion of reflexivity. Namely, the process of constantly reflecting upon thoughts and ideas about research, as well as the data collection process. This can be done with blogs, memos, and digital tools, and in qualitative research they may be utilized as sources of data during the analysis. It is something that I would like to get proficient and eventually become efficient with managing my research thoughts and reflecting upon these thoughts.
- My presentation on topic modeling reinstated my interest in this amazing new technique for finding hidden variables within large sums of text. Comments from audience were productive and engaging. Important to utilize further animation and visualization within the power point, so the concepts would be better understood by the audience. It is indeed a complex topic.
- Overall, the University of Illinois campus was great, I established some excellent contacts within the qualitative research field, and I am excited to go back next year!