{"id":178,"date":"2013-11-30T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evst399.coolsociology.net\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:57:20","slug":"youtube-videos-on-quantitative-data-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/?page_id=178","title":{"rendered":"Resources on Quantitative Data Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Redlands Instructional Videos: &#8220;Working with Statistics&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>This is a (very) small collection of videos that show how statistics can help us discover things about our society and our environment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.microsoftstream.com\/video\/a1ccb841-deda-4e36-a80b-14bf9105a43d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Every Child Should Know<\/a>&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>This video uses survey data to find out how people rank 5 traits that everyone agrees that kids need to learn, but that different people value differently.\u00a0 It uses simple distributions and cross-tabulations to show what kinds of people rank each of those traits highest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Software<\/h3>\n<p>Here are two software resources for learning how to use quantitative analysis.\u00a0 Each comes with an online guidebook.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/Docs\/Soc%20Insights.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sociological Insights<\/a> (software zip file) and Thinking Through Statistics (book), both by Jim Spickard.\u00a0 Written in 2005.\u00a0 Now free for downloading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/socviz.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction<\/a>, by Kieran Healy.\u00a0 This is the book.\u00a0 It starts by showing you how to build the software in R.\u00a0 Very cool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>YouTube<\/h3>\n<p>YouTube hosts a rather bewildering array of videos on quantitative data analysis. \u00a0Some of it is good, some is bad, and some is just boring. \u00a0Here are some places to begin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(please note that Jim checks this list about once a year for broken links)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a Correlation? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ypgo4qUBt5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ypgo4qUBt5o<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Z-scores: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mai23vW8uFM&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mai23vW8uFM&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Linear Regression (correlation), with a bit of multiple at the end:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MIqyiGvrUXE&amp;feature=related \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MIqyiGvrUXE&amp;feature=related\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Other videos in this series, based on a textbook. \u00a0<em>(Talking head alert.)<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Comparing populations: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RWeOg5C1sZY&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=3&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RWeOg5C1sZY&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=3&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sampling: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LfgPmKTdUsE&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=19&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LfgPmKTdUsE&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=19&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Probability Distributions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yng9pQQmJUE&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=20&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yng9pQQmJUE&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=20&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Probability: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhOTjLOPWbU&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=21&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhOTjLOPWbU&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=21&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Measurement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NIhU9HB1NwM&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=22&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NIhU9HB1NwM&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=22&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Presenting Data: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qKPhtBIsyIY&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=23&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qKPhtBIsyIY&amp;list=UUBnL9f20RQV-Bbr8jwIE-Pg&amp;index=23&amp;feature=plcp<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Also Hypothesis Testing, Estimation, Introduction:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL3D44D9D8397977AE&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL LIST IS HERE<\/a>: \u00a0(except regression &amp; population comparison)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redlands Instructional Videos: &#8220;Working with Statistics&#8221; This is a (very) small collection of videos that show how statistics can help us discover things about our society and our environment. &#8220;What Every Child Should Know&#8221; This video uses survey data to find out how people rank 5 traits that everyone agrees that kids need to learn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}