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General Quantitative Ethnography

Foundational resources on the field of Quantitative Ethnography and links to the Zotero repository and QE YouTube channel

Shaffer, D. W. (2017). Quantitative ethnography. Madison, WI: Cathcart Press

This book is an introduction into the field of Quantitative Ethnography and covers, among others:

  • Integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods
  • Taxonomy of observations (thick and thin descriptions)
  • Issues related to data collection, coding, segmentation and modeling
  • The rationale behind Epistemic Network Analysis
LAK’18 Keynote: Going Beyond Mixed Methods to Turn Big Data into Real Understanding by David Williamson Shaffer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This talk is an introduction of the field of Quantitative Ethnography and covers, among others:

  • Learning as a process of enculturation
  • Integration of quantitative and qualitative research method
  • Turning data into understanding
  • Introduction to Epistemic Network Analysis
ICQE’20 Keynote: QE Visualizations as Tools for Thinking by Simon Buckingham Shum, University of Technology Sydney

This talk covers, among others:

  • Visualisations as communication tools in research and beyond
  • ENA and other QEgenerated visuals analysed from the Human-Computer Interaction perspective
  • Thoughts on current and future techniques for presenting QE analyses
  • Participatory forms of sense-making
International Society for Quantitative Ethnography YouTube Channel

On this channel you will find:

  • ISQE webinars
  • Selected presentations from QE events, such as QEurious meet-up and QE conferences
QE Zotero

Zotero library listing current Quantitative Ethnography research.

QE Tutorial: Introduction and Overview

A short introduction to the Quantitative Ethnography.

Learning analytics methods and tutorials. A practical guide using R

This book includes all the basics of R as a programming language as well as the basics of data cleaning, statistics, and data manipulation.