John Fox on R software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students

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Cees van der Eijk on “Contextualising Research Methods

Cees van der Eijk gives a talk for the Sociology seminar series. Cees van der Eijk discusses teaching quantitative methods, focussing on the need in successful methods teaching to locate methods topics in (a) the context of substantive research questions and examples, but also (b ...  Show more

Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences

Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, and (b) using "big data" examples to generate and maintain students' interest. 

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