Researching Society and Culture
Weblinks
Broaden your understanding of chapter topics and link to real conversations about social research.
A way of using Google to search the academic literature only. Contains a variety of tools to help find relevant literature
Social Research Update 61. Internet Research and Unobtrusive Methods, by Christine Hine
An archive of past websites
National Centre for Research Methods: Exploring Online Research Methods
Brings together a group of interdisciplinary researchers interested in analysing social media images and online visual cultures
Help with designing web questionnaires
Statistics software
As well as SPSS, there are a number of other general statistics software applications. Links to some are shown here, as well as useful SPSS sites
Using Excel for statistical analysis
A tutorial on how to use Excel for statistical analysis
Excel Statistics Tutorial on YouTube
The commercial site of Minitab statistical software
‘R’ is free software for doing statistical analysis. This site has plenty of information about how to use it
Social Research Update 55. R and Quantitative Data Analysis, by Paul Webb
Provides an overview of R
The commercial site for SPSS, containing guides to its use
How2stats is a great site for learning about statistics, as well as SPSS
SPSS for Beginners 1 – Introduction
Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE at UCLA: Resources to Help You Learn SPSS)
General statistics sites
StatTrek Teach Yourself Statistics
Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study
Hyperstat Online Statistics Textbook
Statistical Associates Publishing: Free, Downloadable, Statistics Guides
Fun stuff on statistics
Hans Rosling is a highly engaging presenter of ways to display statistical information. Here are three videos which show him at his best
1. Hans Rosling: Stats That Reshape Your Worldview
2. Hans Rosling: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The World Visualized