To interested parties of Cory Kind and my Master Tutorial at SIOP this year, “Advanced Uses of Mechanical Turk for Data Collection”, please find our slide pack and R code here. Happy Turking friends!
I’d like to share a solution for collecting linked/dyadic data from a simple online survey. The following instruction is specific to the open-source LimeSurvey application, but could be used as a template for expansion to other survey platforms. Notably, LimeSurvey is free. First things first, you’ll need generate and save...
Do you collect occupation or job titles and recode to O*NET? If you do, you know the process is tedious and time-consuming. Multiple raters should be used and even in the best cases, unnecessary error is added by the re-coding process. In an effort to let survey respondents decide on...
Now for the good stuff–follow-ups with MTURK! After completing your first survey, you have your set of workers to follow-up with for one or more additional waves of data collection. Here’s how to make it work: First, you are going to need CRAN-R (free, open-source software) and the MTurkR package...
Amazon’s MTURK is a promising way to collect data in the social sciences . The sample (as compared to other convenience samples), timeliness, ease, and cost are all strong positive attributes of the service (Landers & Behrend, 2014). However, there is not a convenient method to collect multiple waves of...
Vertical editing (or column selection) is a very helpful tool available in many text editors. It allows for columns to be selected and edited instead of rows. This can be great for copying and pasting in table information for an entire column that otherwise would need to be copied and...
There is not a singular way to mix down a song. Nevertheless, there is a logical flow to getting a song where you want it. Here’s mine: EDITING/TIMING Flatten and merge comps (compilations of takes) Establish phase-locked groups (for any instruments recorded with multiple tracks) Bus groups (for applying effects...
If you still want to use MS Word for equations (instead of LaTeX), but at least want to decrease the hassle (i.e. scroll, point, click, scroll, point, click, etc. etc.). Here’s my contribution: First, some quick keyboard tips from Microsoft: To make text appear slightly above (superscript) or below (subscript) your regular...
If you don’t yet know, Zotero is a fantastic choice for reference management. If you manage references you should use it. It does everything at least as well as the competition and does one thing the competition does not–it clips not only citations, but also full text PDFs from all major...
For stat students (or anyone) wanting a fast refresh on calculus with a few different learning options, allow me to share my suggestions. 1. 20 minutes. And who knew learning Calculus could be this entertaining? It’s worth it for the sound effects alone. http://youtu.be/di_bzYD0Mkg 2. I like P. Lutus, he’s an interesting fellow...
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