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Data, data, data. More data is available to us now than ever before. As work and private activities are increasingly facilitated and enacted by our digital devices, we leave traces that can be picked up and analyzed anytime and anywhere. Data collected through surveys, archives, and experiments also remain relevant, as digital traces do not necessarily reflect perceptions, attitudes, and intentions. What also has not changed is that data is meaningless until it is analyzed. That is what this book is about: analyzing data. More precisely: analyzing quantitative data. Numbers.
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Mertens, W., Pugliese, A., Recker, J. (2017). Introduction. In: Quantitative Data Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42700-3_1
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