TheSocRes has created a little 'chaos video' (for a bit of a fun activity) for conveying how challenging in real terms it is to collect data when one's research may be ethnographically based and undertaking unstructured interviews, observation, participant observation or any other format of raw data collection.
The real world is chaotic and unorganised; the Social Science Researchers must be properly prepared in their methodology and being effectively grounded. It is always recommended a pilot scheme/research data collection trial be undertaken to see how effective you will perform in research fieldwork.
What can be done to reduce the chaos? How can you discipline yourself to pick out the gleanings of necessary data for the Social Science Research? What hardware can help you? How much time to collect, collate, analyse? Is the Research project undertaken too overwhelming.
Has this video helped highlight these issues?
