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What to do when survey data is not available or not trustworthy? An application of novel ecological inference techniques to the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920
Ecological inference techniques, as advocated and codified by Gary King, provide a way forward when survey data is biased or unavailable and researchers need to infer individual behavior from conte...
The Science and The Politics
Janet Bowstead, one of our #DataImpactFellows, shares her thoughts on how the often-made distinction between “the science” and “the politics” is not as simple as it might ap...
Human Rights – Erosion of a Human History Milestone?
On 10 December is Human Rights Day. This year, the United Nations has given the day the motto “Recover Better – Stand Up for Human Rights.” Especially now, we need to tackle the shortcomings reveal...
#CiteTheData: How persistent identifiers for data can enhance Research Excellence Framework impact case studies
With three months to submission find out why citing data in impact case studies is a great way to enhance their ‘FAIR-ness’ and support the persistence of their components, REF to REF as its digita...
Preliminary findings of the German Emigrants Overseas Online Survey – What did we learn about the Germans we reached through social networking sites?
In another GESIS blog post, Steffen Pötzschke and Bernd Weiß have provide some information on their recent survey that used Facebook and Instagram to reach Germans abroad. In this text we present p...
Data for Good – an ESRC Festival of Social Science workshop
Patty Doran introduces a recent co-produced event which explored how different types of data can be used for good by the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector.