Matt Jans

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Can anyone recommend a good overview article comparing methods of sentiment analysis?

This isn't my specialty area, and I'm not in a position to conduct an extensive lit review, so I'm hoping you all can point me to your favorite sentiment analysis articles. By "sentiment analysis"...

20 September 2021 8,339 10 View

What cities and metro areas have active, recurring health surveys?

I've been developing a research interest in state and local data sources from working with CHIS for the past few years. We all know about the BRFSS and state-level data like that, but I'm...

27 March 2017 5,165 1 View

Are there accepted geographic definitions of ethnic enclaves and areas with racial/language concentrations in California?

Demography is not my specialty, and I'm new to the study of "neighborhood effects" and geographic clustering by race/ethnicity and language. I'm wondering if there are some (even if more than one)...

14 February 2016 5,292 5 View

What should I display on caller ID to maximize survey response?

Alternatively worded, "What caller ID messages/labels and phone numbers are most likely to be answered?" This topic comes up from time to time in my field, but I don't recall ever seeing any...

19 March 2015 1,922 7 View

Who has a good workflow for reviewing articles and note taking on Android devices?

I've worked out a great workflow for taking summary notes on articles on my PCs, but am having trouble transferring it to Android due to the lack of good screen capture options within PDFs. Here's...

04 March 2015 1,229 3 View

Has anyone seen (or calculated themselves) performance benchmarks between Stata and SAS?

I have a good sense of how Stata and SAS differ in how they handle data files (with SAS reading only one observation into memory at a time and being able to handle multiple files at one, and Stata...

26 February 2015 1,710 7 View

What are your favorite books and papers on quantitative/statistical analysis in sociolinguistics or psycholinguistics?

I did my PhD in survey methodology and coded question-answer sequences from recorded interviews for my dissertation data. I built my coding scheme on some of the common schemes in my field and...

05 February 2015 7,865 12 View

What are the proper techniques for analyzing reliability of categorical variables with a large number of categories?

The specific context is industry and occupation codes. These are 6-digit codes that are hierarchical and categorize a person's industry and occupation based on what they report to an open-ended...

27 January 2015 9,123 8 View

Has anyone conducted a survey of school teachers and administrators asking about how they develop or choose their bullying prevention programs?

My wife and I were talking about this tonight. There are some programs that work and some that don't (and many others that haven't been evaluated). Bullying intervention is her area of research,...

23 January 2015 3,848 6 View

Does anyone have a survey collecting sexual orientation data on teens or older adults?

Do you know of or have a survey that collects sexual orientation (i.e., LGB or "sexual identity") data from teens or older adults? I've been gathering some info on LGB questions broadly, so I'd...

02 December 2014 7,739 4 View

Can anyone help with this possible misunderstanding about p-values in multiple testing?

Here is one example of an analysis and reviewer response I've seen a few times, and I'm wondering what you all thing about it. I want to see if I can find a good way to explain it to people, to...

24 November 2014 2,936 14 View

Do you like to use 0 or 1 as the base category for your categorical (nominal and ordinal) variables?

I realize there are some situations where a true dummy coding (0, 1) is needed to make coefficients interpretable (and situations where you have to do contrast coding, etc), but in terms of...

21 August 2014 6,526 11 View

What are your favorite/model surveys for the extensiveness and instructiveness of data collection and/or data analysis documentation?

The survey I work on has a lot of online documentation and we often get positive feedback on it from users, because we explain in detail how the data was collected, how cases were sampled,...

05 June 2014 7,555 2 View

Are gay and lesbian people less likely than straight people to report their sexual orientation in surveys?

I'm doing some research on this right now, and finding an interesting relationship. Has anyone out there studied this (directly or through lit review)? Any expectations one way or the other? Do...

27 February 2014 9,951 10 View

Why do parents refuse to let their teenage kids participate in surveys?

I've seen some qualitative work on this, and I'm in the process of tracking down quantitative work as well. I've seen reasons cited like privacy (i.e., "I don't want him talking to strangers"),...

31 January 2014 554 3 View

What is the relationship between age and nonresponse bias?

Looking for one or two model papers for a conference paper. Does anyone have a favorite paper on nonresponse bias (unit and/or item) in elderly populations...or papers correlating age with...

06 January 2014 4,652 4 View

What is an effective amount to offer a teenager (13-18) to do a 15 min phone survey?

I'm designing an incentive experiment for a survey of teen respondents. I'm wondering what amount of incentive will work for a short phone survey. The incentive will be promised (rather than...

15 October 2013 7,508 3 View

Has anyone put together an Emacs starter kit for social scientists like Kieran Healy's, but for PC?

I found Kieran's paper describing his Emacs program and version control guidelines last week and fell in love! http://kieranhealy.org/resources/emacs-starter-kit.html Then had my heart broken when...

27 February 2013 2,032 1 View