Editing Designing Internet Research (Winter 2020)

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# '''Basic skills in a general purpose high-level programming language used for Internet-based data collection and analysis.''' I strongly recommend the Python programming language although other programming languages like Ruby and Perl are also good choices. Generally speaking, statistical programming languages like R, Stata, Matlab are not well suited for this.
# '''Basic skills in a general purpose high-level programming language used for Internet-based data collection and analysis.''' I strongly recommend the Python programming language although other programming languages like Ruby and Perl are also good choices. Generally speaking, statistical programming languages like R, Stata, Matlab are not well suited for this.
# '''Familiarity with the technologies of web APIs.''' In particular, students should understand what APIs are, how they work, and should be able to read, interpret, and process data in JSON.
# '''Familiarity with the technologies of web APIs.''' In particular, students should understand what APIs are, how they work, and should be able to read, interpret, and process data in JSON.
# '''Knowledge of how to process and move data from a website or API into a format that they will be able to use for analysis.''' The final format will depend on the nature of the result but this might be a statistical programming environment like R, Stata, SAS, SPSS, etc or a qualitative data analysis tools like ATLAS.ti, NVivo or Dedoose.
# '''Knowledge of how to process and and move data from a website or API into a format that they will be able to use for analysis.''' The final format will depend on the nature of the result but this might be a statistical programming environment like R, Stata, SAS, SPSS, etc or a qualitative data analysis tools like ATLAS.ti, NVivo or Dedoose.


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