quantitativecoding
nounQuantitative coding is when you turn things into numbers so a computer can understand and work with them.
The scientist used quantitative coding to turn survey answers into numbers for the computer to analyze.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. In social science research, the process of assigning numbers to non-numeric data like interview responses so they can be analyzed statistically.
During the study, the researchers did quantitative coding of the interview transcripts to find patterns.
3. In machine learning, converting categories or text into numeric values that a model can process.
The team applied quantitative coding to label the images before training the neural network.
4. In education, scoring open-ended student answers with numbers to measure learning outcomes.
Teachers used quantitative coding to grade the essays on a five-point scale.