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Koch, Alex; Speckmann, Felix; Unkelbach, Christian – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Measuring the similarity of stimuli is of great interest to a variety of social scientists. Spatial arrangement by dragging and dropping "more similar" targets closer together on the computer screen is a precise and efficient method to measure stimulus similarity. We present Qualtrics-spatial arrangement method (Q-SpAM), a feature-rich…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Proximity, Social Science Research, Social Sciences
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Munch, Elizabeth – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2017
Topological data analysis (TDA) is a collection of powerful tools that can quantify shape and structure in data in order to answer questions from the data's domain. This is done by representing some aspect of the structure of the data in a simplified topological signature. In this article, we introduce two of the most commonly used topological…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Topology, Graphs, Proximity
Lin, Van-Kim; Madill, Rebecca – Administration for Children & Families, 2019
"Spatial analysis" is an analytic method that uses location-based variables or maps to understand how places, the characteristics of places, and the people and things in places are arranged in space, as well as the reasons for these arrangements. This resource focuses on how spatial analysis can be used to understand early care and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Geographic Location