My focus on this page/website is mostly related to the science of reading and research about reading, this page takes on a more general discussion about data analysis.
In the following slides is a presentation about data analysis with focus on qualitative research and data sets such as transcribed interviews and open-ended questionnaire, fieldnotes and observation sheets.
Data analysis workshop
Here is the worksheet that accompanies the slide presentation above.
Data Analysis workshop activities.docx
Here is a figure that outlines the processes followed during qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research.
There are various software that can help researchers analyse their data. For qualitative research there is Atlas.ti and for quantitative research there are various programmes such as SPSS and R. Here are a few videos on such programmes.