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Ramsey3 Final Report <br />Grant No. OS-1237 <br />City of Ramsey <br />In an article in Sociological Research Online, "Choosing Quantitative Data Analysis Software," <br />Christine Barry notes AtlasTI's strength is "its simplicity of operation. It is easy to grasp what it does <br />and how it works." <br />Using the Atlas list, participants culled down the almost 200 codes groups into. code families and what <br />were termed "components" of the vision. To accomplish this we initially used a process known as "rapid <br />OST" which allows for participants to come to consensus in a relatively short time. However, this <br />method proved too cumbersome and we switched to using, a variation of Nominal Group Technique <br />using weighted voting to prune down the components and their ingredients. <br />'I'o help participants visualize the process we used the following visual. <br />TI!~~ I:a~~~~~:~ ~;~iEi~at~~:~~ ~"a•~r~~~~ <br />c~n~ ~~~ <br />.- <br />Vision` <br />E~raluation <br />. __ <br />__ <br />This graphic illustrated the process as a pyramid in which we moved from the broad baseprovided by <br />the extensive citizen participation in the OST process, to the code families that were identified using <br />Atlas, to the vision components the group gleaned from the Atlas analysis, to the visioning process, the <br />affirmation of share values by the group and the community, and f pally evaluation and the vision 'itself. <br />-15- <br />-206- <br />