Analysing Data... Is there more beneath the surface?

I have written things up, started trying to organise things, listened and transcribed important aspects of interviews that seem to be the most important and have starting thinking about all the things I have seen, and heard and I’m beginning to analyse what I have.

I don’t know whether it is the data that I have collected or whether I am looking at things with a closed mind but I am struggling to find anything other than the glaringly obvious, I have had no great revelations, or sat there and thought… “this is amazing this is exactly what I hoped to achieve with this inquiry”!

Honestly I am feeling a little bit flat, searching literature is going better than it had but again I haven’t found anything where I have though…“wow this is fascinating”. More digging is required here, and I have a plan to expand my search criteria and think “outside the box” I am hoping that this will help me to feel more encouraged and motivated again. But I am starting to worry that maybe there isn’t enough depth to my inquiry, maybe I chose the wrong topic or I need to adjust the plan, but I am also aware that time is, as always on this course, marching on!

I ordered a book earlier in the week that Rosemary had suggested on her blog it s called “Freakonomics” and I began to have a read of it this morning, it is as she suggested, a really interesting read about how when you analyse data and trends things aren’t always as they first seem, and that further investigation, and again the all important “thinking outside the box” can lead you to discover more than you first thought, well this is what I think its about I have only read the first chapter or so. But I am hoping that perhaps this is what I need to get moving again with the inquiry, perhaps there is more beneath the surface of my data that I have yet to discover….

Anyone else having similar problems of feeling a little bit in limbo, feeling like the data isn’t enough or struggling to see the answers in the information they have got? Would love to hear from you, maybe we can share some thoughts or have some discussions that might help?