Introduction to Internet-based Research
Week 4: Mining Big Data, Experimental Research and Data Collection via the Internet
(05.11.2021)
Mandatory reading
| Reips, U. D. (2012). Using the Internet to collect data. |
| Khan, N., Yaqoob, I., Hashem, I. A. T., Inayat, Z., Mahmoud Ali, W. K., Alam, M., ... & Gani, A. (2014). Big data: survey, technologies, opportunities, and challenges. The scientific world journal. |
Optional reading
Brown, B., Chui, M., & Manyika, J. (2011). Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’. McKinsey Quarterly, 4(1), 24-35. |
| Davis, R. N. (1999). Web-based administration of a personality questionnaire: Comparison with traditional methods. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31(4), 572-577. |
| Chang, R. M., Kauffman, R. J., & Kwon, Y. (2014). Understanding the paradigm shift to computational social science in the presence of big data. Decision Support Systems, 63, 67-80. |
| Reips, U. D. (2001). The Web experimental psychology lab: Five years of data collection on the Internet. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33(2), 201-211. |
| Sanchez, S. M. (2014, December). Simulation experiments: Better data, not just big data. In Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014 (pp. 805-816). IEEE. |