In spite of advances in technologies for working with data, analysts still spend an inordinate
amount of time diagnosing data quality issues and manipulating data into a usable form …

Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning,
sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of …

A complete guide to carrying out complex survey analysis using R As survey analysis
continues to serve as a core component of sociological research, researchers are …

We are living in a world which faces a rapidly increasing amount of data to be dealt with on a
daily basis. In the last decade, the steady improvement of data storage devices and means …

Data analysts must make sense of increasingly large data sets, sometimes with billions or
more records. We present methods for interactive visualization of big data, following the …

Praise for the Second Edition:" The authors present an intuitive and easy-to-read book.…
accompanied by many examples, proposed exercises, good references, and …

Data quality issues such as missing, erroneous, extreme and duplicate values undermine
analysis and are time-consuming to find and fix. Automated methods can help identify …

Data from complex surveys are being used increasingly to build the same sort of explanatory
and predictive models used in the rest of statistics. Although the assumptions underlying …

This book is about using interactive and dynamic plots on a computer screen as part of data
exploration and modeling, both alone and as a partner with static graphics and non …

Information visualization (InfoVis) is now an accepted and growing field, but questions
remain about the best uses for and the maturity of novel visualizations. Usability studies and …