GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data (GESIS DBD Guides) are a service in development that will offer expertise and structured overviews on digital behavioral data and the computational methods needed for successfully working with these data. The areas covered are the collection and acquisition of digital behavioral data, the pre-processing and analysis of digital behavioral data, data quality and documentation of digital behavioral data. Guide formats are conceived to be modular and range from short checklists to more comprehensive introductions and overviews.
The DBD Guides will add up to a knowlegde box that is open for use to researchers from all disciplines and do not require deep technical skills. However, they can contain lines of code and outlink to datasets for training or executable notebooks.
Our first guides will be available by the end of 2023. They will be complemented by more technical and in-depth method tutorials via our new Methods Hub in 2024 and are part of our broader efforts in computational social science capacity building.
For a start, we envisage these formats:
The first guides will be available by the end of 2023.
Upcoming topics:
Overview on Generative Language Models | Overview on Approaches for Data Collection from Online Platforms
How to Collect Data with the YouTube API | How to Collect Data from Online Platforms
Checklist for Documenting Digital Behavioral Data | Checklist for Reproducibility
Expert Insights into Concepts of Network Analysis | Expert Insights into Collecting Data from Mobile Devices
… and more