Here is a very synthetic list of links related to the course “2.0 Tools for Social Research” at the Scuola di Dottorato di ricerca in Studi comparativi ed internazionali in scienze sociali (SCISS) of Milano-Bicocca University (an initiative of three PhD courses UrbEur, Qua_Si e Applied sociology & Methodology).
Reference Management Systems and Metrics Tools
- Zotero (Reference Management System): download page, word processor plugins, word processor troubleshooting, Zotero Styles Library
- H-Index and definitions and calculation
- Firefox add-on to calculate H-Index with Google Scholar
- IGoogle Gadget for H-Index calculation
- Worldcat, the World’s largest library catalogue
- CiteULike, a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references
- B.O.A. : Bicocca Open Archive
Data Visualization
- Trulia Public Schools Map (NY)
- Trulia Real Estate Market Trends Map (NY)
- Tableau Software, data visualization online tools (free)
- Tableau Software, government and public data galleries
- OK Cupid data blog
- Density Design (Milano Politecnico Lab for Data Visualization)
- My Delicious Tag Boundle for Data Visualization
- They Rule: Corporations Board Members
- What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York (on Wired)
- KONY2012: See How Invisible Networks Helped a Campaign Capture the World’s Attention (on Socialflow)
Digital Methos, Open Data, Digital Data
- Summer School in Digital Methods
- Winter School in Digital Methods
- Gephi, data and networks visualization software
- Milano Open Data
- A revew of “Beyond Wikileaks” (in Italian)
- Centro Studi di Etnografia Digitale
Presentation and Collaboration Tools
- Prezi
- A Prezi presentation on the Relativity Theory
- A Prezi presentation on Open Source and Free Culture
- Mindmister: collaborative mapping tool
- Lord of the flies on Mindmister
Sociology blogs and teaching blogs
Academia Jobs RSS
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