Whether you call it ‘content analysis’, ‘textual data labeling’, ‘hand-coding’, or ‘tagging’, a lot more researchers and data science teams are starting up annotation projects these days. Learn how to avoid potential pitfalls.

Interested in applying for a SAGE Concept Grant? We’ve put together the following advice for applicants based on our feedback for previous years’ applicants, and the criteria we’ll be using to judge this year’s applications.

In the day-to-day of political communication, politicians constantly decide how to amplify or constrain emotional expression, in service of signalling policy priorities or persuading colleagues and voters. We propose a new method for quantifying emotionality in politics using the transcribed text of politicians’ speeches. This new approach, described in more detail below, uses computational linguistics tools and can be validated against human judgments of emotionality.

A growing number of social science researchers are shifting to digital methods, but it’s not an easy task, and this has been even more evident in lockdown. We’ve selected 14 software tools that you can start using immediately to run your social or behavioral experiments online.

SAGE Concept Grant winner Dr Nechama Brodie introduces the Homicide Media Tracker, a tool currently under development that will enable the collection, curation and analysis of crime data in media. Why is it needed? What kind of data will the tool be able to collect? And what insights can this data afford researchers?

Virtual reality offers a realistic and controlled research environment, presenting an opportunity for the future of valid and reliable research in the social sciences. This blog introduces a new tool that enables real-time experience measurement in VR, under development with support from the SAGE Concept Grant.

Last month we announced the winners of the 2020 SAGE Concept Grant, which supports the development of new software tools for social science research. In the latest edition of our newsletter we introduce our six winners: Read it here and sign up for future updates.

The 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant program drew over 140 applications from all over the world. In this blog post, we’re giving you an insight into our judging criteria and sharing the most common reasons why applications did not progress further, to serve as feedback for this year’s applicants and guidance for future applicants.

AI is susceptible to misuse and has been found to reflect biases that exist in society. Fortunately, there are a number of organizations committed to addressing ethical questions in AI. We list our top 10.

This summer we've had the pleasure of welcoming four Masters students from UK universities to work with the SAGE Ocean team. All four students have been quite incredible, and have managed to produce a variety of outputs and substantially contribute to our work. In this blog post, they share testimonials of their time in the team.

Sam Gilbert demonstrates the value of big search data for social scientists, and suggests some practical steps to using internet search data in your own research.

As part of Scotland’s annual DataFest, the 2019 Data Summit conference took place in Edinburgh on 21-22nd March and was packed full of eye-opening sessions from speakers at the cutting edge of data driven innovation.