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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2023
      March 2023
      ISBN:
      9781108990424
      9781108845670
      9781108964784
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      Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 242 Pages
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 242 Pages
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    Book description

    The 'data revolution' offers many new opportunities for research in the social sciences. Increasingly, social and political interactions can be recorded digitally, leading to vast amounts of new data available for research. This poses new challenges for organizing and processing research data. This comprehensive introduction covers the entire range of data management techniques, from flat files to database management systems. It demonstrates how established techniques and technologies from computer science can be applied in social science projects, drawing on a wide range of different applied examples. This book covers simple tools such as spreadsheets and file-based data storage and processing, as well as more powerful data management software like relational databases. It goes on to address advanced topics such as spatial data, text as data, and network data. This book is one of the first to discuss questions of practical data management specifically for social science projects. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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    Contents

    • Frontmatter
      pp i-iv
    • Dedication
      pp v-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-x
    • Preface
      pp xi-xiv
    • Part I - Introduction
      pp 1-2
    • 1 - Motivation
      pp 3-13
    • 2 - Gearing Up
      pp 14-22
    • 3 - Data = Content + Structure
      pp 23-36
    • Part II - Data in Files
      pp 37-38
    • 4 - Storing Data in Files
      pp 39-58
    • 5 - Managing Data in Spreadsheets
      pp 59-73
    • 6 - Basic Data Management in R
      pp 74-86
    • 7 - R and the tidyverse
      pp 87-100
    • Part III - Data in Databases
      pp 101-102
    • 8 - Introduction to Relational Databases
      pp 103-120
    • 9 - Relational Databases and Multiple Tables
      pp 121-134
    • 10 - Database Fine-Tuning
      pp 135-144
    • Part IV - Special Types of Data
      pp 145-146
    • 11 - Spatial Data
      pp 147-165
    • 12 - Text Data
      pp 166-186
    • 13 - Network Data
      pp 187-206
    • Part V - Conclusion
      pp 207-208
    • 14 - Best Practices in Data Management
      pp 209-218
    • Bibliography
      pp 219-222
    • Index
      pp 223-228

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