Dr. Stephen Gorard defines and explains randomness in a research context.

Images contain information absent in text, and this extra information presents opportunities and challenges. It is an opportunity because one image can document variables with which text sources (newspaper articles, speeches or legislative documents) struggle or on datasets too large to feasibly code manually. Learn how to overcome the challenges.

Situational analysis invites researchers to explore relationships and patterns in the data by creating visual maps as part of the analytic process. Co-authors of the book on this analytic method presented a webinar - view it here.

How can you study digital culture and activism? Watch this interview with Dr. Lyndon Wray.

How can you use Excel in your data analysis? Charlotte Brookfield explains!

This collection of open-access articles includes qualitative examples of analysis strategies to use with multimedia video data.

The baby crying next door. Chaotic street life that permeates the apartment. Music. The tone of voices in the interview recording. Whether intentional or not, sometimes important data can be heard. How do we analyze and interpret aural data? These open-access articles offer some examples.

Have you seen Dr. Gorard use card tricks to teach research methods? Watch this video!

Whether you call it ‘content analysis’, ‘textual data labeling’, ‘hand-coding’, or ‘tagging’, a lot more researchers and data science teams are starting up annotation projects these days. Learn how to avoid potential pitfalls.

What does it all mean? Analysis and interpretation of data are difficult practices to learn. These open-access articles from SAGE journals offer practical how-to steps for new researchers.

Learn what to do when you are faced with next steps after coding qualitative data.

Listen to Dr. Stephen Gorard discuss his no-nonsense approach to statistics.

Qualitative data analysis can only get you so far - then you need to make sense of what you have found. Find open-access examples and guidance in this curated collection of articles.

Find strategies for setting up a codebook for qualitative data analysis.