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owner:
    hid: 347
    name: Jeramy Townsley
    url: https://github.com/bigdata-i523/hid347
    Latitude: 39.773739
    Longitude: -86.175216
    City: Indianapolis, IN, USA
paper1:
    abstract: >
        Qualitative research has been and continues to be an important research approach in the social sciences.  Some of the most important qualitative approaches are ethnography, surveys, and textual analysis, with data coding being a fundamental analytic process.  Sociology has used qualitative research to describe interactions between individuals (the micro-level), community and institutional-level dynamics (the meso-level), and structures and processes of entire societies (the macro-level).  Big data may have the unique potential to allow researchers to look at all three of these layers together in combination, in ways that have not been possible before. Similarly, big data has been used to combine qualitative and quantitative research in novel ways.  Uniquely, big data gives researchers the ability to get large amounts of real-time and ongoing data about human behavior as it exists in actual social situations, unfiltered by the somewhat artificial instruments designed by researchers.
    author:
        - Jeramy Townsley
    chapter: Lifestyle
    hid:
        - 347
    status: Oct 21 17 100% 
    title: Sociological Applications of Big Data
    url: https://github.com/bigdata-i523/hid347/tree/master/paper1
paper2:
    review: Nov 6 2017
    author:
        - Jeramy Townsley
    hid:
        - 347
    title: Sociological Qualitative Methods Using Big Data
    abstract: >
        Qualitative research has been and continues to be an important research approach in the social sciences.  Some of the most important qualitative approaches are ethnography, surveys, and textual analysis, with data coding being a fundamental analytic process.  Sociology has used qualitative research to describe interactions between individuals (the micro-level), community and institutional-level dynamics (the meso-level), and structures and processes of entire societies (the macro-level).  Big data may have the unique potential to allow researchers to look at all three of these layers together in combination, in ways that have not been possible before. Similarly, big data has been used to combine qualitative and quantitative research in novel ways.  Uniquely, big data gives researchers the ability to get large amounts of real-time and ongoing data about human behavior as it exists in actual social situations, unfiltered by the somewhat artificial instruments designed by researchers.
    url: https://github.com/bigdata-i523/hid347/tree/master/paper2
    status: Nov 05 17 100%
    chapter: Lifestyle
project:
    review: 
    author:
        - Jeramy Townsley
    hid:
        - 347
    title: Killings by Police in the United States
    abstract: >
        With the rise of camera phones that allows citizens to videotape law enforcement brutality against citizens,
        and the ability to immediately make those videos public through social media, there has been an increased 
        awareness of police killings of citizens, and a number of systematic attempts to document these events, 
        since there is no government database that has been shown to be credible on this issue. These events can be 
        mapped at the county level (3,143 counties in the US are listed in the 2015 Census Tiger Shapefiles) with the 
        open source software QGIS.  Further, demographic and economic data gathered by the Census at the county level 
        (5-year estimates as of 2015 with the American Community Survey) can be collected and tested against the 
        police-killings data to determine if a regression model can be used to describe a significant pattern among 
        these variables.
    url: https://github.com/bigdata-i523/hid347/tree/master/project
    type: project
    status: Nov 29 17 100%
    chapter: Lifestyle