This repository serves as documentation of the evolution of codes and categories in a team-based [1] Grounded Theory Method investigation of data mental models. Rules are adapted from Alex Bigelow's sanitized-wrangling-codes repository.

In the spirit of open science and reproducibility, this repository is publicly visible and will be archived on osf.io, along with the participants' sketches and sanitized notes from interview sessions. As such, please make sure:

1. No idenifiable information about participants is included in the memo/code/anything you are committing.
2. Partially-formed codes are allowed, but in the spirit of active citation [2], please include at least one of the following pieces of evidence with your code commit:

• for sketch observations, the osf link to the sketch and the number of the interview (e.g. Interview 007)
• for quotes, the number of the interview and the participant's words in quotations
• a link or paper title when the evidence is coming from a publication

3. You commit to a separate branch (other than main) and request a review from another author before merging the pull request.

Github's record of our discussions, linked to the evolution of codes, is an important part of our audit trail so creating branches and reviewing teammember's merges is paramount.

[1] Wiener, C., & Bryant, A. (2010). Making teams work in conducting grounded theory. The Sage handbook of grounded theory, 293-310.

[2] Moravcsik, A. (2010). Active citation: A precondition for replicable qualitative research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 43(1), 29-35.