Going to an academic conference is an exciting opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and exchange stimulating ideas. However, to make the most of a conference requires a lot of hard work before, during, and after the meeting itself. Marta Teperek provides a checklist of things to do at each of these stages.
Categories: Research
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What’s the secret to a productive spell of writing? Chris Smith shares insights gleaned from interviews with a diverse group of academics, from which a number of common academic writing habits stood out. These range from the simple acts of scheduling and setting self-imposed deadlines, to the use of “free-writing” techniques which help authors write their way out of blocks.
Categories: Writing
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The Virtual Open House is your opportunity to access resources on SAGE Research Methods, and learn to use them here. See the whole series of Open House posts. Visit http://methods.sagepub.com with this special Open House log-in from February 1 to March 18. Find what you need with guidance for navigating SRM. Username: SRMbundle Password: winter2018 (Use the Institution login button) This is […]
Categories: MentorSpace, Research, Students, Teaching, Tools and Resources
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The Virtual Open House is your opportunity to access resources on SAGE Research Methods, and learn to use them on Mentorspace. Visit http://methods.sagepub.com with this special Open House log-in from February 1 to March 18: Username: SRMbundle Password: winter2018 (Use the Institution login button) If you have read my posts on Methodspace, you know I have an interest in visual communication […]
Categories: MentorSpace, Research, Tools and Resources, Uncategorised, Visual Maps
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Katherine Wood, a graduate student in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Psychology Department and advocate for open science, walks through a basic overview of how to overcome and accomplish some operations commonly encountered when initially getting a data set. “By generating the data yourself” she says, “you can make your life easier by saving it in the format you want.” She explains step by step multiple ways to accomplish this and highlights packages that will make things easier for anyone with similar issues.
Categories: Big Data, Blogs, Quantitative
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November is Academic Writing Month #AcWriMo at Methodspace! The theme of week five is: Publishing and Presenting. One way to publish your work is to create a book that includes writings by other researchers. As illustrated below, editing a book is a complex and lengthy project. Learn about your options in this this four-part series about editing […]
Categories: ACWRIMO, Editorial, Uncategorised, Writing
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Professor Davina Cooper explains how to differentiate your writing style to make your work standout and be more relevant. Academic writing doesn’t necessarily aspire to represent what is, as if the material world can be imitated point for point in thought, but to create.
Categories: ACWRIMO, Editorial, Writing
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One of the most frequent questions I get about logistic regression is “How can I tell if my model fits the data?” There are two general approaches to answering this question. One is to get a measure of how well you can predict the dependent variable based on the independent variables. The other is to […]
Categories: Quantitative
Continue ReadingOver the last decade, multiple imputation has rapidly become one of the most widely-used methods for handling missing data. However, one of the big uncertainties about the practice of multiple imputation is how many imputed data sets are needed to get good results. In this post, I’ll summarize what I know about this issue. Bottom […]
Categories: Big Data
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Designing for Emergence in Focus Groups One of the most common pieces of advice in introductions to qualitative research is the need to alternate between data collection and data analysis. The common metaphor here is a cyclical rather than a linear process. Another name for this strategy is emergent design, where the original […]
Categories: Qualitative
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