Resources

Simulation games & System dynamics resources

Free games

• Forio Games 

• isee Exchange games 

Demo Games

• Strategy Dynamics Games 

Data Mining Resources

Data Sources

• Promisedata - Data for reusable SE experiments

• UK data services - Discover

• EUDAT

Data Mining Courses & Instructions

• Neural Networks and Machine Learning

• Knowledge Discovery in Databases

• Digital Humanities Data Mining with Weka 

• Data Mining Map

Data Mining Software

• Cluto - clustering software

• Semantria

Data Mining Case studies

• https://semantria.com/case-studies

• https://www.jmp.com/en_us/academic/case-study-library.html

Network manipulation

• https://snap.stanford.edu/

• http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

Mining the social web

• http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/i400-590-mining-the-social-web/

Text mining

• Text Mining, Scraping and Sentiment Analysis with R - Udemi course

• A survey of the applications of text mining in financial domain

Industrial Careers in the Age of Machine Learning

• https://teguar.com/industrial-careers-in-the-age-of-machine-learning/ 

Statistical and Machine Learning Methods

How to choose the statistical method

• Choosing the correct statistical analysis

• Different variable types

JASP software tutorials & SEM

• Comparing two groups in laavan - multigroup analysis - Measurement Invariance Testing Using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Module in JASP

• How to conduct SEM in JASP

• Calculation of the sample size for SEM

• PLS in JASP

• Example of the research

  • IMPACTS OF DISTRIBUTION INTENSITY ON PERCEIVED QUALITY, BRAND AWARENESS BRAND LOYALTY - STRUCTURAL MODEL

SEM & PLS-SEM

• PLS-SEM (9): Second-order PLS-SEM in SmartPLS || Reflective to Formative modeling

• Reflective and formative constructs

• Comparison of SEM and PLS methodology

Machine learning classification

• Supervised Machine Learning: A Review of Classification Techniques

• Top 10 algorithms in data mining

Self-organizing maps

• Viscovery software information

• Segmenting the market of West Australian senior tourists using an artificial neural network

• Clustering the ecological footprint of nations using Kohonen’s self-organizing maps

• A comparison of supervised and unsupervised neural networks in predicting bankruptcy of Korean firms

Cluster analysis

• Explanation of the method

  • StatSoft Text Book - cluster analysis

  • Simple explanation of K-means

  • Practical Guide to Cluster Analysis in R

• Examples of the research

  • Example of research paper with cluster analysis on binary variables

Association rules

• Explanation of the method

  • Simple example

• Examples of the research

  • Finding association rules in semantic data

  • Assessment of data quality in accounting data with association rules

  • Mining association rules to support resource allocation in business process management

Logistic regression

• Explanation of the method

  • Logistic regression in SPSS

  • http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/output/logistic.htm

• Examples of the research

  • Self-employment and innovation. Exploring the determinants of innovative behavior in small businesses

Odds ratio

• Explanation of the method

  • Explaining Odds ratio

  • Odds ratio in SPSS

• Example of the research

  • Role of birthplace in chronic disease in adults and very old individuals: national cohorts in the UK and, 2009-2010

Path analysis

• Explanation of the method

  • Example of Very Simple Path Analysis via Regression (with correlation matrix input)

  • Step your way through Path Analysis 

  • Chapter of the book with case study example

• Example of the research

  • The effects of co-brand marketing mix strategies on customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty for medium and small traders and manufacturers 

  • An assessment of the use of partial least squares structural equation modeling in marketing research 

  • Firm Innovativeness and Its Performance Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review and Theoretical Integration 

Microdata Resources

Data providers

• Administrative Data Network

• UK Data Service

• Data Without Boundaries

• GENES - France

• Federal Statistical Office, Germany

• German Microdata Lab, GESIS

• Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute of Employment Research (IAB)

• Statistics Netherlands

• UK Office for National Statistics Virtual Microdata Laboratory

• Eurostat-microdata

• Portal Epidemiology

• MISSY (Microdata Information System)

• CIMES - Centralising Integrating Metadata

Conferences

• 4th European User Conference for EU-Microdata

• 3rd European User Conference for EU-Microdata

• 2nd European User Conference for EU-Microdata

• 1st European Data User Conference for EU-Microdata

Qualitative reserach

Sample size direction

• Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps