Philadelphia: Sage Publications, Inc, 2012. — 376 p. Collecting Qualitative Data: A Field Manual for Applied Research provides a very practical, step-by-step guide to collecting and managing qualitative data. The data collection chapters focus on the three most often used forms of qualitative data collection: participant observation, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The book...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-199669-24-4. Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers,...
2nd Ed. — Business Expert Press, 2019. — 118 p. — ISBN10: 1948976056, 13 978-1948976053. Survey research is a powerful tool used in business, health care, government, and other fields that seek to understand how and why individuals behave the way they do. Properly conducted, surveys can provide accurate insights into areas such as attitudes, opinions, motivations, and values...
2nd Ed. — Business Expert Press, 2019. — 106 p. — ISBN: 1949991288. Survey research is a powerful tool to help understand how and why individuals behave the way they do. Properly conducted, surveys can provide accurate insights into areas such as attitudes, opinions, motivations, and values, which serve as the drivers of individual behavior. This two-volume book is intended to...
London: Sage Publications, 2014. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4462-6774-5. Qualitative text analysis is ideal for these types of data and this textbook provides a hands-on introduction to the method and its theoretical underpinnings. It offers step-by-step instructions for implementing the three principal types of qualitative text analysis: thematic, evaluative, and type-building....
Polity, 2020. — 224 p. — ISBN 1509529314, 9781509529315. To analyse social and behavioural phenomena in our digitalized world, it is necessary to understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital data. This book presents an overview of the many techniques that are part of the fundamental toolbox of the digital social scientist. Placing...
Springer, 2018. — 158 p. — ISBN: 9811321450. This book presents various recently developed and traditional statistical techniques, which are increasingly being applied in social science research. The social sciences cover diverse phenomena arising in society, the economy and the environment, some of which are too complex to allow concrete statements; some cannot be defined by...
Springer, 2018. — 228 p. — ISBN: 3319790102. This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods. Providing starting tools for using and analyzing a file once a survey has been conducted, it addresses fields as diverse as advanced weighting, editing, and imputation, which are not well-covered in corresponding survey books. Moreover, it...
No Starch Press, 2020. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-59327-916-5. BuzzFeed News Senior Reporter Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language. Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit archives tell us about human behavior? In Mining Social Media,...
SAGE Publications, 2018. — 328 p. It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others. That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in which we live. Social scientists call this practice "commercial sociology". Richard Webber originated Acorn and Mosaic, the two most successful...
Wiley, 2023. — 419 p. — ISBN 9781119906025. Oриентированная на человека структура для управления операциями на переднем крае Explore the real future of work in this expert tech implementation guide that goes beyond automation. In Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations, serial startup founder Dr. Natan Linder and futurist podcaster Dr. Trond...
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