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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, 'Research Design in Social Data Science' and 'Collecting Social Media Data' Courses Launch Soon 6 months, 1 week ago
SAGE Campus is launching two new courses to our suite of online data science courses for social scientists. The new short courses, Research Design in Social Data Science and Collecting Social Media Data, are aimed at those
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Archived Webinar: Introduction to R 8 months, 4 weeks ago
The rise of big data has given social scientists access to vast datasets. To fully realize this opportunity, many social scientists are changing the way they work and adopting the R programming language to allow for further
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Free Paper: Using Lean Methods to Build Effective E-Learning Solutions 9 months, 4 weeks ago
To download the paper, please visit the whitepaper landing page HERE
The teaching and learning of social research methods, and quantitative skills in particular, is of growing importance. Several high-profile
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Big Data and Social Research Roundup No. 29 10 months, 1 week ago
This month’s big data newsletter includes several top-flight free resources for readers, including an article on “The social imaginaries of data activism” drawn from the journal Big Data & Society; a chapter from The SAGE
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Methods Minute: Getting Comfortable with Statistics 1 year ago
The latest edition of SAGE Publishing’s Methods Minute newsletter encourages viewers to get comfortable with statistics, offering a video from the late Neil Salkind on coping with statistics anxiety, offering a students g
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Big Data and Social Research Roundup No. 28 1 year ago
Two must-read blog posts and a report on the latest SAGE Ocean speaker series event are key draws in the latest big data newsletter, viewable below.
The blog posts include “The Computation/Context Trade-Off?” by Laura K.
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Big Data and Social Research Roundup No. 26 1 year, 2 months ago
Among the free resources offered in this month’s Big Data newsletter are a free issue of the journal Organizational Research Methods built around the theme, “Big Data and Modern Data Analytics;” a free chapter from the
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, SAGE Unveils Innovation Labs for Quick-Sprint Experiments 1 year, 3 months ago
SAGE Publishing believes that experimenting with cutting-edge technologies could lead to a range of innovative services and opportunities to build bridges to scholarly knowledge. SAGE Publishing Innovation Lab attempts to do
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Archived Webinar: A Practical Approach to Applied Conversation Analysis 1 year, 3 months ago
In this archived webinar — “A Practical Approach to Applied Conversation Analysis” — held on September 7, 2018, Jessica Lester and Michelle O’Reilly address the definition and uses of conversation analysis, which they d
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Submissions Open for Early Career Excellence in Teaching Evaluation Awards 1 year, 3 months ago
Have you ever wanted to engage with thousands of individuals from the evaluation community? Perhaps gather for a shared experience to discuss the practice of evaluation itself? If so, look no further than the 32nd American
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, R You Interested in R? Take Our Survey 1 year, 3 months ago
Calling all instructors who have opinions on R software. Do you use R in your intro stats class? Do you want to make the jump but haven’t yet? SAGE Publishing, the parent of MethodSpace, invites you to help develop new R
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Grants Offered Computational Social Science Software Developers 1 year, 5 months ago
A grant program that provides early stage funding for innovative software ideas that support social science researchers working with big data and new technology is now accepting applications.
The first Concept Grants from
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Methods Minute Newsletter: Professional Networking 1 year, 5 months ago
The latest edition of SAGE Publishing’s Methods Minute newsletter includes its usual wealth of interesting- and free! – content to peruse. This includes a listing of top tips for stellar student-supervisor meetings, a way to
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Big Data and Social Research Roundup No. 23 1 year, 5 months ago
This month’s edition of the big data newsletter includes links to one story in Die Welt asking if artificial intelligence can ever be free of bias and another story from The University Network wondering if we use our
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Big Data and Social Research Roundup No. 22 1 year, 6 months ago
This month’s big data newsletter opens with a description of the launch of the 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and held at Duke
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Big Data and Social Research Roundup No. 21 1 year, 7 months ago
This month’s big data newsletter, viewable below, includes a recounting of the new Social Data Initiative that the Social Science Research Council and Facebook have launched alongside a variety of non-profit organizations.
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Archived Webinar: A Social Science Perspective on Data Science 1 year, 7 months ago
In this archived webinar, Claudia von Vacano and Geoff Bacon, both at the University of California, Berkeley D-Lab and both instructors for SAGE Campus’s “Introduction to Data Science for Social Scientists” course discu
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Archived Webinar: Text Mining for Social Scientists 1 year, 7 months ago
Text mining refers to digital social research methods that involve the collection and analysis of unstructured textual data, generally from internet-based sources such as social media and digital archives.
In the webinar
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Video: Key Skills in Writing a Qualitative Research Proposal 1 year, 8 months ago
“No matter what your research goal, all research proposals present three common elements,” says qualitative methodology professor Nathan Durdella in the video segment below. “These are the introduction, the background or li
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SAGE Publishing wrote a new post, Where Should I Start – R or Python? 1 year, 8 months ago
If you conduct social science research and you are using Stata, SAS, or SPSS, you might be looking to learn how to use some of the new tools on the block.
R and Python are the two popular programming languages used
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