Social scientists are increasingly drawing on new forms of data beyond the traditional genres of surveys and interviews. These data include administrative records, commercial transactions, social media and internet data, geo-spatial data, and image and audio data. These types of new data present challenges for technical infrastructure, legal governance, and ethically responsible research and digital preservation.
Our research on New Forms of Data
- linking digital behavioral data (e.g., social media) with survey data
- digital preservation of social media data to enable access while protecting privacy
- georeferencing surveys to link them to small-scale neighborhood information found in geo-spatial data
- Daikeler, Jessica, Leon Fröhling, Indira Sen, Lukas Birkenmaier, Tobias Gummer, Jan Schwalbach, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Katrin Weller, and Clemens Lechner. 2024. "Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review." Social Science Computer Review online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241245395.
- Zens, Maria, Katrin Weller, and Claudia Wagner, ed. 2023. Expert Insights into Studying Vulnerable Communities Online. An Interview with Kyriaki Kalimeri and Yelena Mejova. GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data 4. Köln: GESIS. https://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/admin/Dateikatalog/pdf/dbd-guides/dbd_guide_04_studying_vulnerable_communities_online_kalimeri_mejova.pdf.
- Kohne, Julian. 2023. "ChatDashboard - A Framework to collect, link, and process donated WhatsApp Chat Log Data." European Survey Research Association Conference (ESRA), University of Milano - Bicocca, Mailand, 2023-07-18.
- Génois, Mathieu, Maria Zens, Marcos Oliveira, Clemens Lechner, Johann Schaible, and Markus Strohmaier. 2023. "Combining Sensors and Surveys to Study Social Interactions: A Case of Four Science Conferences." Personality Science 4 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.9957.
- Lietz, Haiko. 2022. "Identifying endogenous time to slice longitudinal network data." XLII Sunbelt International Social Network Conference, Cairns, Australia, 2022-08-30.
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Analyzing Digital Behavioral Data
Methods, tools, frameworks and infrastructures for analyzing digital behavioral data.
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CSS Capacity Building
Talks, tutorials, materials on computational methods for the collection, processing, and analysis of digital behavioral data.
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Digital Behavioral Data: Datasets
Curated digital behavioral data – datasets for scientific re-use.
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GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data
Expertise and hands-on advice on the acquisition and analysis of digital behavioral data and the computational methods needed.