Online Collections and Presentation (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) The American Folklife Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections.
Online content may include audio samples of music and stories, digital images of rare letters and photographs, and video clips. To use the featured collections in their entirety, please visit our Collections & Research Services page for information about doing research in our Reading Room. AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays American Folklife Center online archive of websites and materials from past events. After the Day of Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 A presentation of approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from over two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. Captain Pearl R. The Civil Rights History Project This site presents interviews with civil rights activists conducted beginning in 2010.
THOMAS (Library of Congress) StoryCorps. About Us - DSC / SSRI / Duke University. The DSC serves as a statistical information center for research and quantitative analysis.
We offer in-depth consulting on statistical software, quantitative methods, social science data resources, geospatial resources and analysis, databases and online data interfaces, as well as many other issues relevant to Social Science research and computing. Our ongoing workshops cover a wide variety of topics including: introductions to relevant software applications, statistical methodologies, and database management.
Our Team Each DSC team member has a unique set of skills that help promote and facilitate research and quantitative analysis at Duke. Outside of DSC, there are a number of additional people throughout Duke who may be able to assist you with your data/statistical/research questions. Jerry Reiter Director Expertise: Statistical Modeling, Confidential Data Access Solutions 919-668-5227 | Faculty Page | Email Jerry Gary Thompson Associate Director Rob Cooper Database and Web Specialist. ICPSR. Human Relations Area Files. Anthropology as BIG DATA: Making the case for ethnography as a critical dimension in digital media and technology studies.
YouTube. The Ethnographer’s Complete Guide to Big Data: Small Data People in a Big Data World (part 1 of 3) Statistics House, Kampala, Uganda Research is hard to do.
Much of it is left to the specialists who carry on in school 4-10 more years after completing a first degree to acquire the proper training. It’s not only hard to do, it’s also hard to read and understand and extrapolate from. Mass media coverage of science and social research is rife with misinterpretations – overgeneralizations, glossing over research limitations, failing to adequately consider the characteristics of subject populations. Does more data or “big data” in any way, shape, or form alter this state of affairs? Being an ethnographer makes me more of a “small data” person. Leading into a data science conference my department (DataEdge) is hosting this week, I want to list some questions that I (and maybe other ‘small data’ people) have about the big data / data analytics trend.
For good measure, a couple of interesting, probing takes on big data: Like this: Like Loading...