Weekly schedule
This page gives you general indications about the course schedule. Reading refer to the course reading list. Precise chapters and page numbers will be indicated during the term. The * mark priority readings.
Week |
Topic |
Reading |
Miscellaneous |
1 (6.1) |
The role of data in the social sciences before and since the Internet (1) |
Rosenberg in Gitelman 2013, chap. 1* |
Slides week 1 |
2 (13.1) |
Course postponed to Tuesdays 20-1, 27-1 and 3-2, from 13-14, in room F25a, Millburn House. |
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3 (20.1) |
The role of data in the social sciences before and since the Internet (2) |
de Vaus 2007 |
Slides week 3 |
4 (27.1) |
Surveys in social and political research Questionnaire design and implementation |
Sturgis 2008* Schaeffer and Presser 2003* Blair et al. 1977* Belson et al. 1981 Bryman 2012, chap. 10-11 Lee 1993, chap. 5-6 Payne 1951 |
Slides week 4 |
5 (3.2) |
Analysis of secondary datasets Introduction to basic statistics with Excel |
Hill, Dean and Murphy 2014: chap. 6, chap. 7 & chap. 8 |
Presentation of the UK Data Service by Jo Wathan (University of Manchester) with crime dataset as an example Slides Jo Wathan |
6 (10.2) |
Reading week |
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7 (17.2) |
Presentation of summative essay |
On 17.02, bring your laptop with battery loaded Deadline for formative essay submission: 18.2 |
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8 (24.2) |
Students' oral presentations and feedback on formative essays Hands-on session: treating your data |
Presentation of a case from conflict studies by Vincenzo Bove (PAIS, University of Warwick) |
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9 (3.3) |
Hands-on session: treating your data |
Slides week 9 | |
10 (10.3) |
Data treatment: discussion about Jiang 2013 'Big data', administrative data and social media data |
Thelwall, Sud and Vis 2012* Wilkinson and Thelwall (in press)* Hill and Murphy 2014 |
Deadline for summative essay submission: 5.5 |
Updated 12.01.2014