Resources

Resources

Chapter 3: Intro to Survey Design

Online survey sites

Kwik Surveys, http://www.kwiksurveys.com

Free Online Surveys, http://www.freeonlinesurveys.com

Google Forms, http://www.google.com/google-d-s/createforms.html

Survey Gizmo, http://www.surveygizmo.com

Survey Monkey, https://www.surveymonkey.com

Survey Planet, https://www.surveyplanet.com

Chapter 4: Types of Survey Questions

Conducting Surveys

Dierckx, Didier. "The Case of 'Likert Scales v. Slider Scales,' Market Research (blog) Checkmarket.com, https://www.checkmarket.com/2012/08/likert_v_sliderscales/

Fink, Arlene. How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide, 3rd ed., Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006.

Fowler, Floyd J. Survey Research Methods, 5th ed., Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014.

Gray, George and Neil Guppy. Successful Surveys: Research Methods and Practice, 3rd ed., Scarborough, Ontario: Thomson Nelson, 2003.

"Scaled Questions," Instructional Assessment Resources, The University of Texas at Austin, http://www.utexas.edu/academic/ctl/assessment/iar/teaching/plan/method/survey/responseScale.pdf

Chapter 7: Getting Data Ready for Cleaning

Splitting delimited text into columns in Excel

"Split text into different cells," Microsoft Office Support, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-text-into-different-cells-HA102809804.aspx

Splitting strings

JavaScript

"JavaScript String split() Method," W3Schools, http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp

Visual Basic

"Split Function (Visual Basic)," Microsoft Developer Network, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6x627e5f(v=vs.90).aspx

String Operations in Python

"Common string operations," The Python Standard Library, Python Software Foundation, https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html

Missing Data

Osborne, Jason W., "Dealing with Missing or Incomplete Data: Debunking the Myth of Emptiness," Ch 6, Best Practices in Data Cleaning, Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2013:

Chapter 8: Data Cleaning

Spreadsheet software

"List of spreadsheet software," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spreadsheet_software

Regular Expressions

Guides and Testers

"Regular Expressions - User Guide," Zytrax, http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm

RegExr v2.0, http://www.regexr.com

JavaScript

"JavaScript RegExp Reference," W3Schools, http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp

Python

"Regular expression operations," The Python Standard Library, Python Software Foundation, https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

Chapter 10: What Data Cleaning Can and Can't Catch

Data Transformations

"Transformations to Achieve Linearity," Stat Trek, http://stattrek.com/regression/linear-transformation.aspx#