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Higher education institutions traditionally used SPSS when teaching social science. But there’s a shift toward R; a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Find out the top reasons why your institution should switch to R.
In addition to SAGE Campus online data science courses for social scientists, SAGE are launching another online course - this time on critical thinking, by Tom Chatfield. Find out more…
What is social data science and how is it done? Taha Yasseri, course instructor on the SAGE Campus Research Design in Social Data Science online course, explains the big data-driven approach to social science research that everyone is talking about.
SAGE Campus are soon launching two brand new online data science courses for social scientists; Research Design in Social Data Science and Collecting Social Media Data. Register your interest for the courses today to get 25% off when they launch this summer.
Dr. Maja Založnik, Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, answers questions from SAGE Campus’ recent free Introduction to R webinar about the R programming language.
The ability to work with digital research methods and data analysis is opening up a whole new world of research potential for social scientists. Dr. James Allen-Robertson, Digital Sociologist at the University of Essex, tells us how computational social science has given him and his research output a new lease of life.
Guest blog from Matt Denny, Research Scientist at Facebook Core Data Science, on the benefits of learning data science as a social scientist. Get started in data science with SAGE Campus’ Practical Data Management with R online course, authored by Matt.
We spoke to one of our SAGE Campus learners, a PhD candidate in the humanities, to find out what motivated her to learn data science skills, and how she’s putting her new skills to use.
The majority of social scientists and social researchers report that they want or need to learn data science skills, according to a recent survey by SAGE Campus. What does this mean for higher education institutions?
Learn the basics of the R programming language in this free introductory webinar recording, by Dr. Maja Založnik, Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Free webinar, intro to R.
Learning Python can be daunting for social scientists who don’t have a technical background. Dmitrijs Martinovs, assistant at SAGE Campus, tells us his experience of switching from SPSS to Python to better conduct analyses when undertaking a research masters in social policy.
To accompany the launch of our new course on November 26, Introduction to Text Mining for Social Scientists we’ve put together this handy video collection with SAGE Campus course instructor Gabe Ignatow. We’ve broken them down into useful sections to help give you a quick overview of Text Mining; we hope you find them useful. Sign up now for Introduction to Text Mining for Social Scientists.
Online learning done well can remove barriers to learning by offering flexible ways to learn new skills, whenever you want and wherever you are. But creating effective online learning isn’t easy and the challenges are especially pronounced when teaching complex and advanced topics. Read our top tips for designing effective online learning based on our experience of developing SAGE Campus courses.
PhD candidates from the University of Nottingham ESRC Doctoral Program told us about their experience with our Introduction to Python e-learning course.
To accompany the launch of our new course on November 26, Introduction to Text Mining for Social Scientists we’ve put together this handy video collection with SAGE Campus course instructor Gabe Ignatow. We’ve broken them down into useful sections to help give you a quick overview of Text Mining; we hope you find them useful. Sign up now for Introduction to Text Mining for Social Scientists.
All of the information you're going to find here has been extracted from the online course Introduction to Text Mining for Social Scientists. The chosen topics will provide you with a taster of what text mining is and we hope this guide is your first step to learning more about this exciting field.
What is text mining and how is it used in social research?
This guide includes carefully chosen topics that are perfect for people who have no experience of R. Each topic is intended as a taster to introduce you to R, the terminology, and to share useful resources to aid your further adventures with R. We hope this guide is a great starting point for you to learn about R!
This webinar discusses why data science is important to the social sciences, and how to gain computational skills with the Introduction to Data Science course.
Whether your looking to improve the visualisation of your data or master your next programming language we've got you covered. Explore all our free webinars in one place
