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Data Analysis

The Prompt That Couldn’t Work: An AI Literacy Breakdown for Qualitative Researchers

Susanne Friese, November 23 2025

In mid-2023, there were only a handful of academic articles on using generative AI in qualitative research. Early pieces included work by Anis and French (2023), Gao et al. (2023), and Christou (2023). Now there are hundreds of papers, both preprints and peer-reviewed publications. The rapid growth, however, has not been matched by an equivalent...

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How AI Understands Qualitative Research: Conversations from Inside the AI Mind

Susanne Friese, June 11 2025

How AI Understands Qualitative Research: Conversations from Inside the AI Mind is a series of thought-provoking articles where I engage in dialogue with a chatbot to explore the nuances of qualitative research—particularly the process of data analysis. The goal is to uncover how a large language model (LLM) “thinks” when it analyzes data and...

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