Data analysis in social sciences
- 2. The process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information and supporting decision-making
- 3. Data Data are simply raw & meaningless facts or figures DATA & INFORMATION Information Processed, organized, structured data presented meaningfully • The history of temperature readings all over the world for the past 100 years is data. • If this data is organized and analyzed to find that global temperature is rising, then that is information
- 4. DOMAINS OF DATA ANALYSIS Social Science To answer questions of cultural, social, economic policy interest Science For Scientific Investigations Business To make business decisions To grow business
- 5. DATA ANALYSIS in Social Science
- 6. Qualitative/Categorical data Quantitative/Numerical data Data Types Nominal and Ordinal Discrete and Continuous
- 7. Cross section Time series Dataset Types Panel Collected at the same point of time for several individuals Collected at different points of time at fixed intervals for an individual A mixture of time series data and cross-section data. Collected for same individuals at different points of time
- 8. Descriptive Analysis - Used to summarize the data Frequency chart (Histogram) Summary statistics (Mean, Median, Mode, Max, Min)
- 9. Graphical Analysis - Used to visualize the data Pie chart Bar chart Box-whisker plot Scatter plot
- 10. Regression Analysis - Used to analyze the dependence of one variable on other variables Regression model Estimation
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