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The purpose of this chapter is to illuminate different approaches to analyzing process data that are grounded in a strong process approach, which considers phenomena such as strategy or organization to be in continuous flux (Langley, Smallman, Tsoukas, & Van de Ven, 2013). One of the biggest challenges to analyzing empirical research in this approach is the treatment and display of data in order to show processes in an ongoing state of becoming (Tsoukas & Chia, 2002). That is, to explain how moment-by-moment enactments shape the flow of experience over time (becoming) and to place those aspects that are enacted in the moment (the ‘doing’) into the foreground of the analysis. The longitudinal data typically associated with process studies facilitates the retrospective reconstruction of process into a pattern of actions and may explain particular outcomes of relevance to organizations such as identity …