GESIS Guides

GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data (DBD)

GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data (GESIS Guides to DBD) bieten Expertise und strukturierte Übersichten zu digitalen Verhaltensdaten und den für die erfolgreiche Arbeit mit diesen Daten erforderlichen computerbasierten Methoden.

GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data decken die Bereiche Erhebung digitaler Verhaltensdaten, Aufbereitung und Analyse digitaler Verhaltensdaten sowie Datenmanagement und Forschungsethik ab. Die Formate der Guides sind modular konzipiert und reichen von kurzen Checklisten bis hin zu umfassenderen Einführungen und Übersichten. Die GESIS Guides to DBD sollen sich zu einer Wissensbox zusammenfügen, die Forscher*innen aller Disziplinen offensteht und keine tiefgreifenden technischen Kenntnisse erfordert – die Guides können jedoch Code Snippets enthalten, auf Datensätze oder Notebooks verweisen.

Die ersten Guides der Reihe sind seit 2024 verfügbar. Sie werden ergänzt duch technisch tiefergehende Methoden-Tutorials im Methods Hub.

GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data ist ein englischsprachiger Service.


Allgemein und themenübergreifend


What is Digital Behavioral Data? (519 kB)

What is Computational Reproducibility? (361 kB)

Expert Insights into Social Media and Democracy. An Interview with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (297 kB)

Overview of Large Language Models for Social and Behavioral Scientists (470 kB) previous 1.0 version (436 kB)

How to Find and Explore Data Quality Frameworks for Digital Behavioral Data (450 kB)

What is Prompting? (0.93 MB)
 

Meet the Experts-Talks

A Short Introduction to Computational Social Science and Digital Behavioral Data  Talk Slides (2.55 MB)

Digital Traces of Human Behavior from Online Platforms – Research Designs and Error Sources  Talk Slides (4.16 MB)

Auditing Algorithms: How Platform Technologies Shape our Digital Environment  Talk Slides (4.37 MB)

Combining Survey Data and Digital Behavioral Data  Talk Slides (3.39 MB)

Large Language Models as a Source of New Data: Methods and Challenges  Talk Slides (2.25 MB)
 


Datenerhebung


Overview of Approaches for Collecting Data from Online Platforms (393 kB)

Overview of Working with Data from YouTube (701 kB) 

Expert Insights into Collecting Data with Mobile Applications. An Interview with Lukas Otto and Mareike Wieland (332 kB)

Expert Insights into Crowdsourcing and Studying Human Coordination. An Interview with Mark E. Whiting (344 kB)

How to Collect Web Data via APIs (383 kB)

How to Collect Online Data through Web Scraping (387 kB)

How to Collect Data from Dynamic Websites with Selenium (374 kB)

How to Collect Data with the YouTube Data API (829 kB)

How to Collect Search Trend Data from Google (353 kB)

How to Set up and Monitor App-based Data Collections (486 kB)

Overview of Working with Web Tracking Data (432 kB)
 

Meet the Experts-Talks

Introduction to Online Data Acquisition  Talk Slides (6.41 MB)

The German Federal Election: Social Media Data for Scientific (Re-)Use  Talk Slides (2.92 MB)

Collecting and Providing Web Data for the Social Sciences  Talk Slides (5.85 MB)

Utilizing Mobile Technology to Uncover Intra-individual Processes and Situational Dynamics  Talk Slides (4.62 MB)
 


Datenaufbereitung und -analyse


Overview of Adapters for Tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) (785 kB)

Expert Insights into Concepts of Network Analysis. An Interview with David Schoch (288 kB)

Expert Insights into Analyzing Images from Political Online Communication. An Interview with Cody Buntain (352 kB)

Expert Insights into Studying Misinformation with Natural Language Processing Methods. An Interview with Arkaitz Zubiaga (269 kB)

Expert Insights into Digital Behavioral Data for Health Analytics. An Interview with Sanja Šćepanović (354 kB)
 

Meet the Experts-Talks

Introduction to Text Mining  Talk Slides (4.37 MB)

Social Network Analysis with Digital Behavioral Data  Talk Slides (3.06 MB)

Altmetrics – Analyzing Academic Communications from Social Media Data  Talk Slides (5.41 MB)

Political Behavior and Influence Dynamics in Online Networks  Talk Slides (1.80 MB)

Linking Surveys and Web Tracking Data for Social Science Research  Talk Slides (2.41 MB)
 


Datenqualität und Forschungsethik


How to Find and Explore Data Quality Frameworks for Digital Behavioral Data (450 kB)

Expert Insights into Studying Vulnerable Communities Online. An Interview with Kyriaki Kalimeri and Yelena Mejova (393 kB)

Expert Insights into Fairness Issues in Computational Social Science Research. An Interview with Allison Koenecke (265 kB)

Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data (421 kB)
 

Meet the Experts-Talks

Research Ethics and Data Protection in Social Media Research  Talk Slides (3.31 MB)

Introduction to Domain-specific Data Infrastructures: DP-R|EX  Talk Slides (1.16 MB)
 

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