such as interpretation based on hunches, insights, and intuition. It also might be an interpretation within a social science construct or idea or a combination of personal views as contrasted with a social science construct or idea. At this point in their analyses, researchers step back and form larger meanings of what is going on in the situations or sites.
In the final phase of the spiral, researchers present the data, a packaging of what was found in text tabular or figure form. For example, creating a visual image of the information, a researcher may present a"comparison' table(see Spradley, 1980) or a matrix-for example, a 2 x 2 table that compares men and women in terms of one of the themes or categories in the study(see Miles& Huberman, 1994) The cells contain text, not numbers. A hierarchical tree diagram rep- resents another form of presentation. This shows different levels of abstraction, with the boxes in the top of he tree representing the most abstract information and those at the hottom represent the least abstract themes. Figure 8.2 illustrates the levels of abstraction that we used in the gunman case(Asmussen& Creswell, 1995).