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Michael Todd wrote a new post, John Creswell on the Value of the Qualitative Approach 2 years, 10 months ago
Say the name John Creswell in the presence of social and behavioral scientists and almost immediately you’ll start hearing fond remembrances of one or more of his books on qualitative methodology, quite likely on the m
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Nick Seaver on Dissecting the Algorithmic Organism 3 years, 2 months ago
When discussing the nexus of computer science and social science, the transaction is usually in one direction – what can computer scientists do for social scientists. But a recent paper from Tufts University anthropologist N
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Janet Salmons Becomes Debut MethodSpace 'Methods Guru' 3 years, 5 months ago
The MethodSpace community continues to grow, and today we’re proud to announce that Janet Salmons is expanding her already large role as the pre-eminent MethodSpace blogger to become our first methods guru.
As such, S
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Greece's Honest Statistician Pays Price for Ethics 3 years, 8 months ago
A Greek appeals court has convicted Andreas Georgiou, the former president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority, known as ELSTAT, of violation of duty for his actions in recalculating national statistics and showing that
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Telling the Story About Narrative Inquiry and Its Value 3 years, 9 months ago
Jeong-Hee Kim says academics who use narrative inquiry as a research method still have lots of work to do if they hope to see their approach fully embraced by the larger methods community. But Kim, a professor of
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Methods in Action: Pioneering Work Inside Immigrant Detection Centers 3 years, 11 months ago
Immigrants are driving the narrative in politics in Western democracies, whether it’s background to the Brexit debate, a key plank in the Trump campaign or a failed strategy in the French presidential election. What often f
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Adapting Social Network Analysis to Age of Big Data 4 years, 1 month ago
“Social networks,” reads a passage in the new book, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples, “have been a defining feature of society since the early dawn of humanity – people have always interac […]
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, The ‘Edutainer’ of Data: Hans Rosling, 1948-2017 4 years, 2 months ago
Although he had an important career as a research epidemiologist and an academic, Hans Rosling’s global fame rested on two pillars: stats and hope. Starting with a TED talk a little over a decade ago, Ro […]
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Methods in Action: Visualizing Social Media Analysis 4 years, 9 months ago
There’s a lot of hope attached to idea that the use of big data-drivers like social media can create important social science. In a small scale test of that big idea, software developers, requirements engineers and s
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Workshop at CFHSS Calgary: The Right Tool for Each Job 4 years, 10 months ago
Some years ago, two great research traditions arose in social and behavioral science: talking to people and gathering data and numbers about people. A hybrid tradition, which goes by various names but which […]
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Methods in Action: Participatory and Community Research 4 years, 11 months ago
Homelessness is a major problem in many global cities, and research on the issue recognizes that urban aspect. But homelessness is not just a problem for cities, as criminologist Michael Young describes in his […]
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Please Excuse Our Teething Pains 4 years, 11 months ago
With the arrival of the revamped MethodSpace, some users have been reporting various issues with accessing their accounts or having their favorite group’s activity show up. We’re actively working on addressing […]
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Michael Todd wrote a new post, Methods in Action: Social Media Surveys 4 years, 11 months ago
Surely using Twitter to conduct social science surveys is a dream come true. From the comfort of the researcher’s desk, a series of questions go out to a wide and yet mostly targeted audience — and then r […]
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