ISSN: 2360-7866

 International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review
 

International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 8(1), pp. 1-27. March, 2020.

ISSN: 2360-7866

DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2020.015

Review

An Overview of Data Analysis and Interpretations in Research

Dawit Dibekulu Alem

Lecturer at Mekdela Amba University, College Social Scinces and Humanities , Departement of English Languge and Literature. Email: dawitdibekulu7@gmail.com

Accepted 16 March 2020

Research is a scientific field which helps to generate new knowledge and solve the existing problem. So, data analysis is the crucial part of research which makes the result of the study more effective. It is a process of collecting, transforming, cleaning, and modeling data with the goal of discovering the required information. In a research it supports the researcher to reach to a conclusion. Therefore, simply stating that data analysis is important for a research will be an understatement rather no research can survive without data analysis. It can be applied in two ways which is qualitatively and quantitative. Both are beneficial because it helps in structuring the findings from different sources of data collection like survey research, again very helpful in breaking a macro problem into micro parts, and acts like a filter when it comes to acquiring meaningful insights out of huge data-set. Furthermore, every researcher has sort out huge pile of data that he/she has collected, before reaching to a conclusion of the research question. Mere data collection is of no use to the researcher. Data analysis proves to be crucial in this process, provides a meaningful base to critical decisions, and helps to create a complete dissertation proposal. So, after analyzing the data the result will provide by qualitative and quantitative method of data results. Quantitative data analysis is mainly use numbers, graphs, charts, equations, statistics (inferential and descriptive). Data that is represented either in a verbal or narrative format is qualitative data which is collected through focus groups, interviews, opened ended questionnaire items, and other less structured situations.

Key Words: Data,data analysis, qualitative and quantitative data analysis

Cite This Article As: Dawit DA (2020). An Overview of Data Analysis and Interpretations in Research. Inter. J. Acad. Res. Educ. Rev. 8(1): 1-27