Digital Research Methods Workshop 2: Visual exploration of statistical data with Mondrian

Description:

This workshop introduces Mondrian, a tool for exploring statistical data, which allows users to display and interact with tabular data through a visual and interactive interface. Mondrian's capacity to link different "views" on the data allows for complex forms of exploration without users having to make any actual calculations. Questioning the possibilities and limitations of this form of data analysis will be an important part of the workshop.

These two workshops are dedicated to the digital research methods. Doctoral students and early career researchers with an interest in how computational turn with its emphasis on digitization, networks and data affect objects, methods and outcomes of research across disciplines are welcome to attend. Practical training in software environments will be accompanied by a conceptual and critical exploration of the methodological and epistemological challenges of the new era.

Bernhard Rieder is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He studied communication, philosophy and history at Vienna University and earned a PhD in information and communication science at the University Paris VIII where he later served as Assistant Professor. He works with the Digital Methods Initiative led by Prof. Richard Rogers, which collaborates with Sciences-Po's médialab, directed by Prof. Bruno Latour.

Bernhard Rieder combines expertise in sociology, political and cultural theory with a profound technical understanding of computational data and networks and has recently emerged as a core thinker on computational and natively digital methods. In his work, he critically explores not only the use of software tools for the analysis of networks, data, and digital platforms, but also questions epistemology of concepts behind and inside those tools.

All attendees are required to bring their own laptops and pre-install Gephi and Modrian (both free software; https://gephi.org; http://www.theusrus.de/Mondrian/). Both tools require Java (http://www.java.com/getjava/).

 

Cost:

£15

Website and registration:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/news/digitalresearchmethods/

Region:

West Midlands

Keywords:

Frameworks for Research and Research Designs, Epistemology, Case Study, Participatory Research, Analysis of official statistics, Mixed Methods, Survey and Questionnaire Design, Visual Methods, Online Data Collection , Data Collection (other), Visual Data Analysis, Qualitative Approaches (other), Quantitative Approaches (other), Social Network Analysis, Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Mixed Methods Approaches (other), Quantitative Software, Research and Project Management, Research Policy, Research Management and Impact (other), Alternative Methods of Dissemination, E-learning

Related publications and presentations:

Frameworks for Research and Research Designs
Epistemology
Case Study
Participatory Research
Analysis of official statistics
Mixed Methods
Survey and Questionnaire Design
Visual Methods
Online Data Collection
Data Collection (other)
Visual Data Analysis
Qualitative Approaches (other)
Quantitative Approaches (other)
Social Network Analysis
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Mixed Methods Approaches (other)
Quantitative Software
Research and Project Management
Research Policy
Research Management and Impact (other)
Alternative Methods of Dissemination
E-learning

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