{"id":74,"date":"2006-05-15T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=74"},"modified":"2006-05-15T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T10:48:00","slug":"being-quantitative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Being quantitative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a Visual Basic program to help me with my data analysis. How quantitative is that \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m picking out words and phrases in my data which are likely to be indicative of the appropriate coding, then I&#8217;m inserting a note by them with a suggested coding. It would be better if I could highlight the text in some way &#8211; underline it, or make it blue, but I couldn&#8217;t work out how to make Visual Basic do that for me.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s an extraordinarily long program for what it does. It doesn&#8217;t have the elegance of a programmer who knows how to loop their program up tidily into sub-routines. Still, it functions. I can always learn a bit more later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a Visual Basic program to help me with my data analysis. How quantitative is that \ud83d\ude09 I&#8217;m picking out words and phrases in my data which are likely to be indicative of the appropriate coding, then I&#8217;m inserting a note by them with a suggested coding. It would be better if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}