Archivo de la etiqueta: methodology

FROM QUANTITATIVE TO QUALITATIVE: INVENTORY OF NEWLY BUILT RAILWAY DWELLINGS IN SPAIN (1939-1990)

In 2019 we had the methodological approach and organisation of our inventory of newly built railway housing in Spain during the second half of the 20th century (Cuéllar and Martínez-Corral, 2021). The results of that proposal have been totally satisfactory and have been the methodological framework on which several publications and participations in congresses have been made (Cuéllar and Martínez-Corral, 2018a; 2018b; 2019a; 2019b; 2020; Martínez-Corral and Cuéllar, 2020; 2021), and the edition of this academic blog to contribute to debate and disseminate all the information we are handling.

From the outset, we have conceived this inventory more as a methodological project than as a simple ordered list of data, although this is also very important. In other words, we have been interested in establishing a methodological support that gives greater rigour to data collection, as well as the use of as much data as possible in order to obtain a wide range of information on what has been studied. The statistical vocation and the dissemination of the data are the other characteristics that we have tried to imprint on the inventory from the outset. It is a “microbigdata” of social railway housing. Sigue leyendo

REGISTRO DE VIVIENDAS / HOUSINGS RECORD

El estudio sobre la evolución de la vivienda ferroviaria en España tiene un fundamento central en el registro de los datos y su clasificación. La interpretación y posterior análisis precisa de un volumen suficiente de datos que ayude a un conocimiento profundo de su desarrollo. De ahí que, tras la localización de fuentes primarias (expedientes y proyectos de construcción, registros de información de las empresas y cooperativas) y secundarias (legislación, memorias de empresas y cooperativas), la lectura de la bibliografía sobre el tema, y las visitas de campo para conocer los edificios y dejar registro fotográfico de su estado, se realice un vaciado de todo esta información para trasladarla a una hoja de datos que, en la actualidad, contiene más de 150 campos para un total de 260 promociones de viviendas, localizadas entre 1949 y 1989. Es decir, disponemos de casi 40.000 datos. Sigue leyendo