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Fieldwork effort, response rate and the distribution of survey outcomes: a multi-level meta-analysis
No full textStructural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a powerful and flexible approach to modeling a broad range of data types and formats. It combines aspects of measurement theory, latent variable modeling, simultaneous equations and path analysis, within a single modeling framework
Strategies in Computer-Assisted Text Analysis
Get PDFThis paper reviews the logic of attempts to automate the processes involved in computer-assisted text analysis in the social sciences. Bayesian estimation methods in spatial analysis of variations in positions of political parties over time and Latent Dirichlet Allocation from the developing field of latent topic analysis are compared with the analysis of structures of word co-occurrences in the tradition of content analysis, using Procrustean individual differences scaling. Each depends in practice on concentrating attention on a limited number of word tokens regarded as meaningful while most are disregarded as inessential. By applying apparently competing strategies to the same set of party contributions to the 1997 budget debate in the Italian parliament, they can be shown to be complementary in character and should be applied as such in comparing material of this kind
Grounded Theory and Big Data
No full textCarl Miller , Research Director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos talks about the Grounded Theory and Big Data. This seminar is part of the QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) series www.quest.soton.ac.u
Situating Pedagogies: Researching the Teaching and Learning of Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
Get PDFThis paper reports developments in new research investigating the teaching and learning of advanced research methods in the social sciences. Based on expert panel interviews with international expert teachers of qualitative methods, we observe pedagogic approaches that characterize advanced qualitative teaching and discuss methods designed to both examine and spur development of pedagogical culture in this nascent field. This paper reports our early findings, elucidating the connections between pedagogy, method, processes, approaches and reflectivity. We argue that through analysis of expert responses to the distinct pedagogic challenges of the methods classroom, the insights generated can form the knowledge and understanding required to enhance pedagogical culture and practice. Whilst qualitative methods might dictate pedagogical structure to some extent, we find that methods alone are insufficient as a pedagogic guide
What is big data?
No full textProfessor Mark Birdin, of Leeds University makes a presentation on big dat
Data collection in zones of violence and conflict
No full textA panel session structured around a dialogue between the relative merits and limitations of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods in zones of violence and armed conflict and the potentiality for more mixed methods collaborations
Using Omics data in the social sciences; NCRM, UKHLS and ICLS Autumn School 2016: The use of biomarkers in social science research. Speaker: Professor Kris Mekli
No full textNCRM podcast: How are we influenced by the information we are exposed to?
No full textThe media environment, including the way we consume our news has been radically changed by the advent of the Internet. What does this mean for the type of content we look at and how we share it with our off and online networks? And how does it influence our opinions? Iulia Cioroianu from the University of Exeter discusses research undertaken as part of the NCRMfunded ExpoNet project which is producing a set of tools to make it possible to examine these ideas more closely