701 DATA ANALYSIS.
IMPORTANCE OF DATA VISUALIZATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.
Visualizing social science research refers to the techniques, processes, and tools that allow
students, instructors, and investigators to understand, present, and frame research.
Includes maps, graphs, and diagrams that illuminate processes that are complex.
Graphic illustrations can demystify and clarify designs. Collect data. And explore
measurement.
SO WHY VISUALIZE SOCIAL SCIENCE?
Social science research seeks to understand, explain, and predict human behaviour by
observing, reflecting, and/or measuring social phenomena.
In science, it focuses on the study of society and relationships of individuals.
7 Principles for Good science Research Figure 1.1.
First six are the possibility of surprise.
All honest research acknowledges its limitations.
Always remain humble.
Visualization has been used for scientific reasoning, so it is an analytical tool for
sensemaking.
The bulk of what a. Research adults is an attempt to derive meaning from data. By
recognizing patterns.
Understanding the Research Process.
Social science attempts to measure what is intangible. Perceptions, behaviors, emotions, and
personalities.
Reliability considers the consistency of one's approach to measurement. Validity involves
assessing its accuracy and the conclusions we can draw as a result.
There are four elements. At the heart of the assumptions and differences among researchers
from different disciplines:
Theoretical perspective.: philosophical stance that provides research context and informs
the rest of the process.
Epistemology: theory of knowledge embedded in theoretical perspective. What is
knowledge and how do we know?
Methodology: the design strategy of Plan of action required to gather and analyze data.
Data collection: methodology directly affects this. Specific methods, techniques and
procedures used to collect data.
Common Theoretical and Epistemological Starting Points.
Different approaches to research are based how people understand reality and develop
knowledge about it.
Historically, Science has relied on positivism. The truth about the world.
Now it's post positivism. Knowledge is speculative and not. Rock solid.
the external world exists independently of an individual’s experience of it.
there’s also critical realists- believe hat some observations about world are correct, and
others are not. acknowledge that all research is incomplete somehow.
constructivist or interpretative tradition- reality is socially constructed and can be different
for different people. No universal truth.
These approaches in turn influence how researchers view the process of reasoning.
IMPORTANCE OF DATA VISUALIZATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.
Visualizing social science research refers to the techniques, processes, and tools that allow
students, instructors, and investigators to understand, present, and frame research.
Includes maps, graphs, and diagrams that illuminate processes that are complex.
Graphic illustrations can demystify and clarify designs. Collect data. And explore
measurement.
SO WHY VISUALIZE SOCIAL SCIENCE?
Social science research seeks to understand, explain, and predict human behaviour by
observing, reflecting, and/or measuring social phenomena.
In science, it focuses on the study of society and relationships of individuals.
7 Principles for Good science Research Figure 1.1.
First six are the possibility of surprise.
All honest research acknowledges its limitations.
Always remain humble.
Visualization has been used for scientific reasoning, so it is an analytical tool for
sensemaking.
The bulk of what a. Research adults is an attempt to derive meaning from data. By
recognizing patterns.
Understanding the Research Process.
Social science attempts to measure what is intangible. Perceptions, behaviors, emotions, and
personalities.
Reliability considers the consistency of one's approach to measurement. Validity involves
assessing its accuracy and the conclusions we can draw as a result.
There are four elements. At the heart of the assumptions and differences among researchers
from different disciplines:
Theoretical perspective.: philosophical stance that provides research context and informs
the rest of the process.
Epistemology: theory of knowledge embedded in theoretical perspective. What is
knowledge and how do we know?
Methodology: the design strategy of Plan of action required to gather and analyze data.
Data collection: methodology directly affects this. Specific methods, techniques and
procedures used to collect data.
Common Theoretical and Epistemological Starting Points.
Different approaches to research are based how people understand reality and develop
knowledge about it.
Historically, Science has relied on positivism. The truth about the world.
Now it's post positivism. Knowledge is speculative and not. Rock solid.
the external world exists independently of an individual’s experience of it.
there’s also critical realists- believe hat some observations about world are correct, and
others are not. acknowledge that all research is incomplete somehow.
constructivist or interpretative tradition- reality is socially constructed and can be different
for different people. No universal truth.
These approaches in turn influence how researchers view the process of reasoning.
