Download or read book Statistical Models for Data Analysis written by Paolo Giudici and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this book cover issues related to the development of novel statistical models for the analysis of data. They offer solutions for relevant problems in statistical data analysis and contain the explicit derivation of the proposed models as well as their implementation. The book assembles the selected and refereed proceedings of the biannual conference of the Italian Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG), a section of the Italian Statistical Society. ​

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Download or read book Discourse Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication written by Giuliana Garzone and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic between individual and society. The authors start from a detailed analysis of discourse practices as evidenced in texts, their production and the professional performance patterns which underlie such practices, and explore the way the actors, roles and identities are constructed in language and discourse. In particular, by highlighting discursive attitudes and aptitudes, they underscore the need to understand discourse in light of norms of professional responsibility, showing that not only do professionals and academics use discourse to create self-identity, but they also use identity constructed through discourse to influence society.

Download or read book L analisi automatica e semi automatica dei dati testuali I written by Luca Giuliano and published by LED Edizioni Universitarie. This book was released on 2012-05-15T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. INTRODUZIONE ALL’ANALISI DEI DATI TESTUALI 1.1. Informazioni e dati (p. 9). – 1.2. Testo, significato e interpretazione (p. 19). – 1.3 Classificazione dei testi e formazione del corpus (p. 23). - Approfondimenti tematici (p. 27). – Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 29). 2. TESTI ON LINE: LUOGHI E PROCEDURE 2.1. I luoghi della Rete (p. 32). – 2.2. I blog (p. 36). – 2.3. Il download e la sua etica (p. 40). – 2.4. Documento-testo, selezione e pre-trattamento (p. 44). – 2.5. Il corpus utilizzato negli esempi: “Bullismo” (p. 48). - Approfondimenti tematici (p. 49). – Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 51). 3. LA GROUNDED THEORY 3.1. Le origini della Grounded Theory (p. 53). – 3.2. La costruzione delle teorie (p. 57). – 3.3. Il processo di codifica e di concettualizzazione (p. 61). – Approfondimenti tematici (p. 66). – Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 67). 4. LAVORARE CON ATLAS.TI5 4.1. La barra degli strumenti (p. 69). - 4.2. La preparazione dei documenti (p. 71). - 4.3. Creazione di una unità ermeneutica (p. 72). - 4.4. Codificare un testo (p. 79). - 4.5. Le famiglie e le super famiglie di codici (p. 85). - 4.6. Le query (p. 88). - 4.7. I network - Rappresentazioni di relazioni (p. 93) 5. LAVORARE CON NVIVO7 – ORGANIZZARE E CODIFICARE IL TESTO 5.1. Creare un progetto di lavoro (p. 97). - 5.2. L'organizzazione dei dati: i casi e gli attributi (p. 102). - 5.3. La barra degli strumenti (p. 105). - 5.4. La formattazione del testo (p. 107). - 5.5. La creazione di nodi di codici (p. 108). - 5.6. Ri-organizzare codici e nodi (p. 118). - 5.7. I rapporti di lavoro (p. 124). - 5.8. Creare elementi di lavoro aggiuntivi (p. 125) 6. LAVORARE CON NVIVO7 – INTERROGARE E RAPPRESENTARE IL TESTO 6.1. Le query (p. 129). – 6.2. I modelli (p. 141). 6.3. Le relazioni (p. 145). 7. L’ANALISI QUANTITATIVA DEL LESSICO 7.1. I pionieri della linguistica quantitativa (p. 150). - 7.2. La costruzione dei lessici di frequenza (p. 153). - 7.3. La scuola francese della statistica testuale (p. 154). - 7.4. Estrazione dell'informazione e tecnologie di Text Mining (p. 155). - 7.5. Gli elementi costitutivi del testo: le parole (p. 156). - Approfondimenti tematici (p. 161). - Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 162) 8. LAVORARE CON LEXICO3 8.1. Preparazione del corpus (p. 166). - 8.2. Le chiavi di partizione corpus (p. 168). - 8.3. La barra degli strumenti (p. 170). - 8.4. Frammentazione del corpus e formazione del vocabolario (p. 172). - 8.5. Analisi delle partizioni del corpus (p. 174). - 8.6. Grafico di distribuzione per la partizione (p. 176). - 8.7. Analisi di specificità (p. 177). - Raggruppamenti di forme grafiche (p. 180). - 8.9. Concordanze (p. 182). - 8.10. Cartografia dei paragrafi (p. 185). - 8.11. Altre funzioni e salvataggio del rapporto (p. 186). - Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 187) 9. LAVORARE CON TALTAC2: IL TRATTAMENTO DEL TESTO 9.1. La barra degli strumenti (p. 189). - 9.2. Preparazione del corpus (p. 191). - 9.3. Creazione di una sessione di lavoro (p. 193) - 9.4. Fase di pre-trattamento: normalizzazione (p. 196). - 9.5. Analisi del vocabolario (p. 200). - 9.6. Il riconoscimento delle forme grammaticali (p. 209). - 9.7. La lemmatizzazione (p. 211). - Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 213) 10. LAVORARE CON TALTAC2: L’ANALISI LESSICALE 10.1. Text Data Mining ed esplorazione delle tabelle (p. 215). - 10.2. Estrazione dei segmenti ripetuti e lessicalizzazione (p. 219). - 10.3. Estrazione delle forme specifiche (p. 223). - 10.4. Estrazione delle forme peculiari (p. 227). - 10.5. Confronto con un dizionario tematico: aggettivi positivi e negativi (p. 231). - Riferimenti bibliografici (p. 234) 11. LAVORARE CON TALTAC2: L’ANALISI DEL CONTENUTO 11.1. Il recupero di informazione: le concordanze (p. 238). - 11.2. L'estrazione di informazione per parole chiave (p. 239). - 11.3. Categorizzazione del corpus da regole (p. 241). - 11.4. Esportazione di tabelle e ricostruzione del corpus (p. 243) - Esempi di ricerca (p. 246)

Download or read book Theories Methods Practices and Fields of Digital Social Research written by Gabriella Punziano and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital, in the form of technologies, scenarios, objects, processes, and relational and interactional structures, is increasingly becoming central to understanding culture, society, human experience, and the social world. It permeates our society’s practices, symbols, and shared meanings, and it makes old distinctions, such as the one between online and offline, real and virtual, and material and immaterial, obsolete. It also introduces digitally native objects of research, such as cyber-bullying and digital identities, which have a direct impact on mainstream sociological problems.

Download or read book Tracing the Life Cycle of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences written by Arjuna Tuzzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how quantitative methods for text analysis can successfully combine with qualitative methods in the study of different disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The book focuses on learning about the evolution of ideas of HSS disciplines through a distant reading of the contents conveyed by scientific literature, in order to retrieve the most relevant topics being debated over time. Quantitative methods, statistical techniques and software packages are used to identify and study the main subject matters of a discipline from raw textual data, both in the past and today. The book also deals with the concept of quality of life of words and aims to foster a discussion about the life cycle of scientific ideas. Textual data retrieved from large corpora pose interesting challenges for any data analysis method and today represent a growing area of research in many fields. New problems emerge from the growing availability of large databases and new methods are needed to retrieve significant information from those large information sources. This book can be used to explain how quantitative methods can be part of the research instrumentation and the "toolbox" of scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences. The book contains numerous examples and a description of the main methods in use, with references to literature and available software. Most of the chapters of the book have been written in a non-technical language for HSS researchers without mathematical, computer or statistical backgrounds.

Download or read book L analisi automatica dei dati testuali Software e istruzioni per l uso written by Luca Giuliano and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Albergo Diffuso Model written by Maurizio Droli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospitality model called "Albergo Diffuso" (AD), or "scattered hotel," has been engneered by Mr Giancarlo Dall'Ara and described by The New York Times as a way of bringing life back to historic towns and rural hamlets by utilizing unused rooms for tourism. This "simple but genial" model devised in Italy in the mid-90's received an award from the UNDP for its sustainability, but despite the spread of AD's, no peer-reviewed books have previously been published in English focusing on this innovation. In this book, the author therefore begins by exploring the AD as a community-based hospitality model, examining both its pros and cons. He then considers conviviality, sense of security, and other factors that Hans Magnus Enzensberger referred to as luxuries of our time for urban dwellers. These represent the key pre-requisites a location must possess to be deemed suitable for this innovation. Next, investors and co-interested private, public and not-for-profit associations are provided with a structured framework to help them achieve a defensible competitive advantage by harnessing the economic potential of valuable, rare, inimitable and non-substitutable (VRIN) resources. The final section assesses the AD as a business model, evaluating various aspects at the heart of any business plan.

Download or read book Constructing Survey Data written by Giampietro Gobo and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and informative, this book provides students and researchers with a pragmatic, new perspective on the process of collecting survey data. By proposing a post-positivist, interviewee-centred approach, it improves the quality and impact of survey data by emphasising the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. Extending the conventional methodology with contributions from linguistics, anthropology, cognitive studies and ethnomethodology, Gobo and Mauceri analyse the answering process in structured interviews built around questionnaires. The following key areas are explored in detail: An historical overview of survey research The process of preparing the survey and designing data collection The methods of detecting bias and improving data quality The strategies for combining quantitative and qualitative approaches The survey within global and local contexts Incorporating the work of experts in interpersonal and intercultural relations, this book offers readers an intriguing critical perspective on survey research. Giampietro Gobo, Ph.D., is Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Evaluation Methods at the Department of Social and Political Studies - University of Milan. He has published over fifty articles in the areas of qualitative and quantitative methods. His books include Doing Ethnography (Sage 2008) and Qualitative Research Practice (Sage 2004, co-edited with C. Seale, J.F. Gubrium and D. Silverman). He is currently engaged in projects in the area of workplace studies. Sergio Mauceri, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Methodology of Social Sciences and teaches Quantitative and Qualitative Strategies of Social Research at the Department of Communication and Social Research - University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. He has published several books and articles on data quality in survey research, mixed strategies, ethnic prejudice, multicultural cohabitation, delay in the transition to adulthood, worker well-being in call centres and homophobia.

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Download or read book L analisi automatica e semi automatica dei dati testuali II written by Luca Giuliano and published by LED Edizioni Universitarie. This book was released on 2012-05-04T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo volume rappresenta un completamento del manuale pubblicato nel 2008: L'analisi automatica e semi-automatica dei dati testuali. Software e istruzioni per l'uso (L. Giuliano e G. La Rocca, LED). Le ricerche qui presentate fanno uso delle tecniche e dei software illustrati là con dettaglio e sulla base degli approcci metodologici argomentati e discussi con riferimento all'integrazione tra qualità e quantità, alla Grounded Theory e all'analisi lessicometrica. La conoscenza approfondita degli strumenti di analisi statistica dei dati testuali e dei CAQDAS (Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Softwares) non è strettamente necessaria per acquisire una conoscenza critica dei risultati delle ricerche e dei temi affrontati. Tuttavia, le applicazioni qui presentate hanno lo scopo di fornire all'utente una descrizione dei percorsi e delle strategie che sono state adottate per compiere il consueto cammino che dalla formulazione delle ipotesi porta al loro controllo empirico. Parimenti è illustrato anche il cammino che porta all'emergere della teoria dai dati (percorso bottom up). Complessivamente le ricerche presentate coprono, sia per i contenuti che per le tecniche utilizzate, una gamma molto ampia di temi e interessi: dal linguaggio politico al linguaggio giornalistico, dai testi delle canzoni del Festival di Sanremo alla rappresentazione della famiglia nella pubblicità. Le tecniche di analisi utilizzate si offrono come sussidio a diversi approcci come la sociologia visuale, l'etnografia, l'analisi del contenuto dei media, la linguistica computazionale e l'analisi della comunicazione mediata dal computer.

Download or read book Online Political Communication written by Gianluca Giansante and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides research findings and practical information on online communication strategies in politics. Based on communication research and real-world political-campaign experience, the author examines how to use the Web and social media to create public visibility, build trust and consensus and boost political participation. It offers a useful guide for practitioners working in the political arena, as well as for those managing communication projects in institutions or companies.

Download or read book A New History of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities Paradigms and Phenomena written by Daniel, Ben Kei and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book satisfies the need for methodological consideration and tools for data collection, analysis and presentation in virtual communities, covering studies on various types of virtual communities, making this reference a comprehensive source of research for those in the social sciences and humanities"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Qualitative Data Analysis written by Carol Grbich and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this book is exactly what you need to get you started in qualitative research. The new edition covers analytical approaches including: - grounded theory - classical, existential and hermeneutic phenomenology - feminist research including memory work - classical, auto- and cyberethnography as well as ethnodrama - content, narrative, conversation and discourse analysis - visual interpretation - semiotic, structural and poststructural analyses A one-stop-shop for students new to qualitative data analysis!