Resources

ORGANIZATIONS

Institute for Social Research (ISR) -- The Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan is one of the nation's longest-standing laboratory for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences

University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC) -- The mission of the Survey Center is to assist researchers by providing the highest quality survey research services.

Population Association of America

American Statistical Association

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington

Population Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania

NORC - University of Chicago

American Association of Public Opinion Research

SITES

Quantitative Methodology Program -- an interdisciplinary program at the Survey Research Center (SRC) of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. QMP promotes innovative research at the intersections of social science and statistical science.

Counterfactual Causal Analysis in Sociology -- Website that provides access to articles on causal analysis methods

The Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association -- Homepage of the Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.

INSNA -- Website for the International Network for Social Network Analysis

TRAINING

Short Courses offered by Paul Allison -- Professor Allison teaches a two-day course on Missing Data, and five-day courses on Event History Analysis and Categorical Data Analysis.

ICPSR Summer Training Program -- The Summer Program provides a comprehensive, integrated program of studies in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology.

The Center for Research on Families Workshop -- The Center for Research on Families (CRF) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is offering a three-day July workshop on MODELING LONGITUDINAL AND DYADIC DATA WITH HLM taught by Dr. Aline Sayer, professor and director of CRF’s Methodology Program at UMass Amherst.

SRC Summer Institute -- The Summer Institute provides rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys.

Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences (SICSS)

Arizona Methods Workshops

ASA SECTIONS

Section on Mathematical Sociology

Economic Sociology

Communication and Information Technologies

JOURNALS

Sociological Methodology

Sociological Methods and Research

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Microsoft Dissertation Grant

AERA Dissertation Grant for dissertation research using rigorous quantitative methods to examine large-scale, education-related data

ICSPR (various fellowships)

RESEARCH TOOLS

Web-scraping tools:

  • Import.io: point-and-click webscraper! Also works to do point-and-click data cleaning for HTML files.

  • ChromeScraper (a point-and-click webscraper like Import.io)

  • NodeXL: import network data from sites like Twitter and Youtube, and do network analysis

  • Gephi's Plug-In StreamingTwitterImporter: Gephi is a point-and-click network analytic/visualization program, and has a plug in to stream Twitter data Scraper

  • SelectorGadget

  • BeautifulSoup: Python library for webscraping. Here's a very clear intro tutorial.

Text Mining and other Digital Humanities tools:

  • Tapor Tools: text analysis tool

  • Mallet: tool for topic modeling, also usable in a point-and-click format

  • Voyant: simple point-and-click text analysis tool. Note that data uploaded to this becomes public.

  • Great, extensive list at USC text mining libguide

Data Visualization tools:

  • Tableau: excellent point-and-click data visualization, free version available to public (Tableau public) and students (Tableau desktop).

  • Gephi: point-and-click network analysis/visualization, also has a plug in to scrape data from Twitter!

Miscellaneous tools:

  • OpenRefine: point-and-click data cleaning!

  • Overleaf: nice site to create and keep your LaTex documents. It also lets you collaborate on LaTex documents, and see the PDF updated as you update your LaTex document

  • Jupyter Notebooks in Python - nice interface to work with Python, especially if you're just getting started.