Section 3 Coding of Personal Comments

This covers Section III of the methodology covered in my report.

We must now manually code the personal comments data according to their theme and direction of impact on anxiety levels.

3.1 Coding according to theme

Manually perform the following steps:

  1. Read through all comments and record, in one word, the primary theme that emerges from each comment.
  2. Group together similar themes.
  3. For each group of themes, identify the higher-level theme (again, in one word).

3.2 Coding according to direction of impact on anxiety

Manually perform the following steps:

  1. Read through all comments and classify the overall sentiment as positive or negative.

Following this process, the personal comments data will look something like this:

##          Date_time
## 1 2019-12-04 13:58
## 2 2019-12-04 13:59
## 3 2019-12-04 19:11
## 4 2019-12-04 19:15
## 5 2019-12-05 11:31
## 6 2019-12-05 18:52
##                                                                           ï..Note.x
## 1                                     There are some bikes moving very quickly here
## 2                                                     This park looks very peaceful
## 3 Still haven't gotten the hang of looking a different way when crossing the street
## 4                                             It's nice not to see any cars in here
## 5                              Almost didn't see that car coming around the corner 
## 6                         The pedestrian scale of this street is really comfortable
##     Theme Sentiment    X_coord  Y_coord  hr
## 1 Traffic  Negative -0.1263700 51.52482 130
## 2  Nature Positive  -0.1274354 51.52488 129
## 3 Traffic  Negative -0.1323954 51.52330 124
## 4 Traffic Positive  -0.1323954 51.52330 124
## 5 Traffic  Negative -0.1249467 51.52490 140
## 6 Visuals Positive  -0.1184381 51.52405 109