The exultation!

Finally, I have data. I have RESULTS!

I've got through 30 blogs in the last 2 days, 10 of which have actually fit my criteria for analysis, so I have a serious chunk of data.

Plus, my previous pilots (all 3 of them!) have produced enough statistics to make some nice, wavy graphs.

I also found a uni library blog which links to my research.

It's a good feeling. I will plow on later today, and maybe until the end of August, before I start tying up the loose ends and trying to figure out what all of this actually means!

I have just given up most of a bank holiday weekend to do research. I must be a potential PhD candidate, surely? ;)

Title: an exploration of the categorisation and labeling of things

I have had a title kicking around for months.

In fact, I've already written large amounts of my final dissertation, in a kind of hypothetical (my supervisor termed it "brain-dump") fashion.

Today I sifted through the huge piles of data I already collected, learned some new statistical functions of Excel, and realised I can get this thing off my back a lot sooner than I expected.