An interview with authors who show how to use statistical techniques to understand pressing social issues.
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Data in the News: The Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis has dominated the U.S. news cycle for the past decade and in 2017 there were c. 50,000 opioid related deaths with no sign that the number of death will begin to decrease any time soon. Here Diana Almen helps interpret the data.
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Continue ReadingData Visualization Across Research Paradigms
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 […]
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Continue ReadingRMF Highlight: Big Data Research in the Social Sciences
The Economic and Social Research Center hosted the biennial Research Methods Festival at the University of Bath. If you weren’t able to attend in person, enjoy this series of posts. Today’s Festival highlight is from SAGE’s own Katie Metler, the Executive Head of Methods Innovation at SAGE Publishing. She has generously shared her presentation slides: Katie discussed […]
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Continue ReadingResearching Big Data – Podcast
The Podcast In a new installment of The Authority File podcast titled “Researching Big Data: Putting Data in an academic context,” host Bill Mickey interviews SAGE Publishing’s Head of Product Innovation, Ian Mulvaney, and three data academics from University of Southern California Libraries department, Caroline Muglia, Andy Rutkowski, and Eimmy Solis. This instalment is part […]
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Continue ReadingData Visualization & Presentation With Microsoft Office: Read on SRM
This series of posts corresponds to the 2018 SAGE Research Methods Open House. If you would like to access the SAGE e-books, articles, case studies, videos, and datasets mentioned in these posts, explore SAGE Research Methods with a free trial. Visual communications are more important than ever. We need to draw readers into our articles, […]
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Continue ReadingFree Data Webinar
There is data on the size of a room, on global monitoring of climate patterns, on flavors of ice cream eaten on a specific days. But data on its own is useless: students and educators to know how to collect, analyze and interpret data correctly. Fortunately SAGE is offering help to those who want to […]
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