Conference PaperHow We CodeShaffer, David W.; Ruis, Andrew R.Ruis, Andrew R.; Lee, Seung B.Coding data—defining concepts and identifying where they occur in data—is a critical aspect of qualitative data analysis, and especially so in quantitative ethnography. Coding is a central process for creating meaning from data, and while much has been written about coding methods and theory, relatively little has been written about what constitutes best practices for fair and valid coding, what justifies those practices, and how to implement them. In this paper, our goal is not to address these issues comprehensively, but to provide guidelines for good coding practice and to highlight some of the issues and key questions that quantitative ethnographers and other researchers should consider when coding data.2021-01-0110248625Advances in Quantitative Ethnography: Second International Conference, ICQE 2020, Malibu, CA, USA, February 1-3, 2021, Proceedings62 - 77https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67788-6_51661036National Science Foundation