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Data Visualization Across Research Paradigms

3rd May 201914th May 2019 Janet Salmons

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A MethodSpace focus for May is about ways to use visuals to represent key ideas, themes in the data, and results of the study, in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research and evaluation. Find all posts in this unfolding series. Let’s start thinking about visualization. The term “data visualization” is commonly used to describe the […]

Categories: Big Data, Creative Methods, Evaluation, Focus Series, Multimodal, Qualitative, Quantitative, Students, Teaching, Tools and Resources, Uncategorised, Visuals

Tags: Data Visualization, Visualize

We Looked at 4 Million Pitches to See How Many Mistakes Umpires Make

9th April 20199th April 2019 Mark T. Williams

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Baseball is back, and fans can anticipate another season of amazing catches, overpowering pitching, tape-measure home runs – and, yes, controversial calls that lead to blow-ups between umpires and players. Home plate umpires are at the heart of baseball; every single pitch can require a judgment call. Yet ask any fan or player, and they’ll […]

Categories: Big Data, Qualitative, Quantitative

Tags: Baseball, Methods in Action

Using Topology to Untangle Big Data

20th February 201920th February 2019 Ittay` Weiss

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Your brain is made up of billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. And how they’re arranged gives rise to the brain’s functionality and to your personality. That’s why scientists in Switzerland recently produced the first-ever digital 3D brain cell atlas, a complete mapping of the brain of a mouse. While this is a […]

Categories: Big Data

Tags: Geometry, The Conversation, Topology

The #tenyearchallenge and Public Awareness of Data and Algorithms

13th February 201913th February 2019 Helen Kennedy

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Facebook, Instagram and other platforms recently set their users a 10 year challenge: post your first ever Facebook photo and another one of you today. Whilst some users were quick to comply, others responded in unexpected ways. Some reactions were funny: Jennifer Aniston in 2009 is Iggy Pop in 2019. Some had a political message: an […]

Categories: Big Data, Data Collection, Research

Tags: Facebook, Public Awareness

The Shutdown is Over, But the Data Loss Reverberates

28th January 201928th January 2019 Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

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The U.S. government shutdown may be over – for now – but its consequences will linger on. One of those concerns is the dizzying amount of economic data the federal government collects on everything from the state of the economy and investment to the cost of college and the quality of nursing homes. During the […]

Categories: Big Data, Editorial

Tags: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Government Data, Shutown

Big Data Often Flips Scientific Method on Its Head. That’s Bad

14th December 201814th December 2018 Kai Zhang

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There’s an increasing concern among scholars that, in many areas of science, famous published results tend to be impossible to reproduce. This crisis can be severe. For example, in 2011, Bayer HealthCare reviewed 67 in-house projects and found that they could replicate less than 25 percent. Furthermore, over two-thirds of the projects had major inconsistencies. […]

Categories: Big Data, Editorial

Tags: Data Analysis, Reproducibility Crisis, Reproducible Data

Computation and Context Are Not a Zero-Sum Game

4th December 2018 Laura K. Nelson

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I recently got jazzed about two findings coming out of the world of computational social science, primarily because they hit so close to my home (hello, junior faculty feeling the pressure to produce): Dashun Wang looked at the career trajectories of 30,000 artists across multiple types of field: art, film, and science. He found that […]

Categories: Big Data, Editorial, Mixed

Tags: CHC, Computational Grounded Theory, Context

Data in the News: CDC Recommends Injectable Flu Shots

26th November 201826th November 2018 Diana Aleman

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As another flu season crosses the U.S., the question on many parents’ minds is one as old as time: to vaccinate my child or not? Young children and the elderly are particularly susceptible to influenza and the flu. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, reported a record of 180 pediatric flu […]

Categories: Big Data

Tags: CDC, Epidemiology, Flu, Tips With Diana

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