Analysis is a systematic, deductive process of looking for key elements or essential features and their relationships in your data. It is a process that focuses on breaking the information into parts.

Your analysis might be of one item, such as one interview transcript; one type of data, such as all of the interview transcripts; or the entire set of data collected through various methods. Regardless of the unit of analysis, you are looking for key parts and their relationships. You will use different analytic methods
depending on whether you have quantitative or qualitative data.

Here is an example of analyzed data from the STEM CLIP.