SUMMARY
This chapter presented data analysis and representation. I began with a review of data analysis procedures advanced by three authors and noted the general process that starts with sketching ideas and taking notes, and I moved to broad analytic frameworks. I then advanced a spiral of analysis that captures the general process. This spiral contains aspects of data management; reading and memoing; describing, classifying, and interpreting; and representing and visualizing data. I next introduced the traditions of inquiry and related them to this spiral, and I presented procedures of analysis found in discussions about biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case studies. Finally, I suggested that computer programs aid in the analysis and representation of data and discussed one program, as illustration of using computer analysis within traditions to write qualitative narratives. To show the utility of NUDIST, I created a template for each of the five traditions of inquiry, and I suggested procedures that interrelate data analysis, writing objectives, and use of NUD.IST.