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Katie Metzler wrote a new post, Big Data rich and Big Data poor 1 year, 7 months ago
“Data is the new oil.” Clive Humby, mathematician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard, is credited with saying this first in 2006, and it’s been repeated numerous times in the last decade. The comparison between data and
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Katie Metzler wrote a new post, Big Data Research: What’s Holding Us Back? 2 years, 3 months ago
We social scientists are at the threshold of a period of dramatic change — change that comes with both opportunity and challenge.
Mark KenneyEveryday a massive amount of information is being created and collected t
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Katie Metzler wrote a new post, The New Digital Divide: Big Data Rich and Big Data Poor 2 years, 10 months ago
“Data is the new oil.” Clive Humby, mathematician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard, is credited with saying this first in 2006, and it’s been repeated numerous times in the last decade. The comparison between […]
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Katie Metzler posted an update in the group
Big Data – interesting reads 2 years, 10 months agoLoving these data science podcasts http://partiallyderivative.com/podcast/
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Katie Metzler posted an update in the group
Big Data – interesting reads 2 years, 11 months agoLooking for datasets? Here’s a great list http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/a-plethora-of-data-set-repositories
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Katie Metzler posted an update in the group
Big Data – interesting reads 2 years, 11 months agoThis is interesting in terms of tracking trends of growth (or not) in data science jobs http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/opinion/Data-science-jobs-not-as-plentiful-as-all-the-hype-indicates
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Katie Metzler wrote a new post, Quantitative Skills conference 26th March 2012 7 years, 6 months ago
On Monday, I attended an excellent conference at the British Academy on Quantitative Skills, with a focus on international comparisons. The main question posed by the conference was, ‘How well trained are UK s […]
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I have sent you a chapter where I discuss some of my HIV-test data. For my book on this topic, see DISCOURSES OF COUNSELLING (Sage 1997).
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Dear Silverman
First off all” enjoy your holidays. Allow me to say thank you again, coz our ideas and theories on qualitative research are FABULASTICO: more than great.
This semester I teach three classes of first year undergraduate students, the discipline of scientific methodology to first year, “beginner“ for them to use the book[Read more] -
Hi Ann
Nice to hear from you. Did you know I spend November and part of December every year in Sydney, teaching PhD and staff workshops in quali research? -
Thanks to David and SAGE Methodspace for the link to chapter 2 – a generous gift, thank you. The copy ordered for my University library still has not arrived, so this is a treat.
And – on the weather – here in southern Australia it has been VERY VERY hot but today a little reprieve from the heat – its only 30degrees celcius today Helmi!!!
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Thank you Helmi [and Dulce Maria last October]. It is great to hear that my books are useful. The new edition of my Very Short Book will be out in about nine months. It includes a Glossary of Received Ideas – a list of what I see as dead ends in qualitative research. I’m currently on holiday somewhere warm but I’m afraid Helmi’s freezing weather is[Read more]
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Hello David and the others,
I joined today the ‘Silverman’. I am using ‘Interpreting Qualitative Data’ regularly in my teaching — very very useful.
Cheers from a very cold winter morning (minus 32 Celsius) in Finland, Helmi
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Hi Ann
You are right: searching for deviant cases and amending your analysis as necessary is one remedy for anecdotalism. Analysing sequences of interview talk helps – don’t just pull a line or two out of an interview because the positioning of talk is very important.More generally, I worry that treating what interviewees say as a transparent guide to[Read more]
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Thanks Kate for the links to the first chapter. I have asked my university library to purchase the latest edition but it will be some time before it arrives in my eager hands so having the fristc hapter is very useful.
David, for my own research I was interested in what you said about anecdotalism. I have written up case studies using interview ex[Read more] -
Welcome to the new members of the group! It would be great to hear feedback about the book and also the companion website, which I hope you’ve all had a chance to check out. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/silvermaniqd/home.htm As Editor for Research Methods at SAGE, I am interested in your feedback so we can keep improving our books!
Enjoy!
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Dear Silvermam
Yours books really help me during my master thesis and during my lessons with my students.
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