Why use Microsoft Excel for Social Research Projects?
How can you use Excel in your data analysis? Charlotte Brookfield explains!
Analyzing Video Data: Qualitative
This collection of open-access articles includes qualitative examples of analysis strategies to use with multimedia video data.
Analyzing Video Data: Quantitative
This collection of open-access articles includes quantitative examples of analysis for video data.
Interview: Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression
The report from PEN America, Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression, connects dots that are important to academic writers: intellectual freedom, and protection of intellectual property. Summer Lopez, PEN’s Chief Program Officer for Free Expression agreed to talk about these issues and controversies.
Sage Concept Grants: Shop Builder from Gorilla
The Shop Builder is a unique product that allows researchers to easily create a simulated and interactive online shop to study consumer behaviour.
Sage Concept Grants: Annotiva
Qualitative researchers face ongoing challenges in consistently identifying and addressing potential ambiguity in collaborative data annotation processes. Annotiva can help.
Sage Concept Grants: Swara
Swara is a web-based/mobile self-completion survey software/application that utilizes voice user interface technology.
Sage Concept Grants: GailBot
GailBot is an automated dialogue transcription tool that uses machine learning and heuristics to annotate essential paralinguistic details of talk such as overlaps, sound stretches, speed changes, and timed silences.
Interview: Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?
This must-read article in The Scholarly Kitchen caught my attention: “Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?” See this thought-provoking interview with the author, Joseph Esposito.
Analyzing Visual Data
How do we understand and interpret visual or video data? See these open-access articles for ideas and examples.
Analyzing Photos in Photovoice Studies
Find a collection of open-access articles about analyzing and interpreting photos generated by participants using photovoice mmethods.
Photovoice: An Introduction to the Method and Analysis Tips
How do you analyze data in photovoice studies? Jean M. Breny, Shannon L. McMorrow offer an introduction.
Analyzing Aural and Sound Data
The baby crying next door. Chaotic street life that permeates the apartment. Music. The tone of voices in the interview recording. Whether intentional or not, sometimes important data can be heard. How do we analyze and interpret aural data? These open-access articles offer some examples.
Learn about Photovoice with Drs. Jean Breny and Shannon McMorrow
Learn about photovoice in this interview with Jean Breny, and Shannon McMorrow.
Confident assessment in research-oriented classes, Part 2
Tips on grading and marking to make it relevant and useful for students’ future research.
Confident assessment in research-oriented classes, Part 1
Tips on assessing a course to make it relevant and useful for students’ future research.
Creative ways to teach from Dr. Gorard
Have you seen Dr. Gorard use card tricks to teach research methods? Watch this video!
The five pitfalls of coding and labeling - and how to avoid them
Whether you call it ‘content analysis’, ‘textual data labeling’, ‘hand-coding’, or ‘tagging’, a lot more researchers and data science teams are starting up annotation projects these days. Learn how to avoid potential pitfalls.