Problems
What will AGI do for Large-Scale Ethnographic Data Coding?
Qualitative research teams and corporate anthropologists collect thousands of hours of interview transcripts, field notes, and observational video. Extracting patterns from this unstructured data requires line-by-line manual coding against a complex, evolving codebook. A standard ethnographic study generates hundreds of thousands of words, forcing researchers to spend months acting as human text parsers rather than analysts.