e-science/Data management Methods
eResearch is research enabled by the application of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs). Ten years ago the emphasis was on the Grid, that is, the hardware, software and standards necessary to co-ordinate geographically distributed compute and data resources and deliver them over the internet to researchers regardless of location. Find out more...
An e-Lab is a secure, online environment that brings together data, research methods, analytical tools, references and people at the point of investigation or decision making. Find out more...
- GIS
The 1987 Committee of Enquiry into the Handling of Geographic Information concluded that a Geographical Information System (GIS) is ‘a system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analysing and displaying data which are spatially referenced to the Earth’. In many respects this definition still holds true. Find out more...
Weblogs, or ‘blogs’, are websites that allow authors to maintain ongoing, reverse-chronological entries for an audience, link to other webpages and interact with readers via comments. Find out more...
- Visual Analytics
We are living in a world which faces a rapidly increasing amount of data to be dealt with on a daily basis. Consequently, research into the automated processing and analysis of data (e.g., data mining) has received much attention in recent years and justly so. Find out more...
In recent years, the internet has become an increasingly popular tool for researching social life. This talk draws on my experience of using e-mail interviews (or asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC)) to research popular music and the life course. Find out more...
The method is an adaptation of content analysis techniques that have been used to code and interpret political campaign advertising on television and radio for the Web environment. Find out more...
Spatial data can be referred to as geographic data or geospatial data. Spatial data provides the information that identifies the location of features and boundaries on Earth. Spatial data can be processed and analysed using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) or Image Processing packages. Find out more...
There is a huge amount of data valuable to research published on the web. However, there is an ever increasing volume of this data and it is usually contained in PDFs, spreadsheets or other discrete documents, disconnected from the people, places and things they describe. This can make finding, accessing and using these data a difficult and time-consuming process. Find out more...