The teaching and learning of social research methods, and quantitative skills in particular, is of growing importance. Several high-profile capacity-building initiatives, such as Nuffield and the ESRC’s Q-Step initiative in the UK, have launched in recent years with an aim of improving research skills of postgraduates and undergraduates. This SAGE white paper is co-authored by […]
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SAGE Campus has released an official beginner’s guide to start learning R and all it has to offer. If you are interested in using R and are not sure where to get started, this free guide is for you. R programming language is widely accessible language that can connect to other languages and can run […]
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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 discuss why data science is important to the social sciences, and what social scientists add to this vibrant conversation in the webinar. This […]
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Quantitative text analysis, or QTA, is the automated, systematic method for processing large amounts of text. This means we can easily carry out tasks such as extracting policy positions from election manifestos or speeches, or even study attitudes or emotion in newspaper articles. The common focus across all methods used in QTA is that they […]
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Data in a table or spreadsheet is valuable, but as human beings, seeing patterns or being able to summarize tabular data can be challenging. Visualizations allow us to do exactly that – create a visual representation of the data, giving us a chance to see it and interpret complex data efficiently at a glance. Now, […]
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Continue ReadingDr. Jason Jackson is an independent scientist and director of Jackson Research Institute. He recently completed the SAGE Campus “Introduction to Python for Social Scientists” course and has shared his insight on the role that data science plays in the future research, and how he to intends to use his new Python skills. This post originally appeared […]
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Continue ReadingThis month’s issue of SAGE’s Big Data Newsletter includes a 25 percent discount for the SAGE Campus online data science course on Practical Data Management with R for Social Scientists (use the discount code dsnewsletter). SAGE Campus serves researchers itching to work with large datasets, such as it debut class, Introduction to Python. The reviews so far have been […]
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Continue ReadingSAGE Campus is SAGE’s new online data science courses for social scientists aimed at helping researchers gain the skills they need to embrace the data revolution. We’ve talked about SAGE Campus before at MethodSpace, and this issue of the the big data newsletter includes a special code for a 25 percent discount on the classes. Just […]
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