Colleen A McClain
Biographic Data
| ID | 10439840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen A McClain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen A |
| FAMILY NAME | McClain |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLAIN C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who’s Tweeting About the President? What Big Survey Data Can Tell Us About Digital Traces
Researchers hoping to make inferences about social phenomena using social media data need to answer two critical questions: What is it that a given social media metric tells us? And who does it tell us about? Drawing from prior work on these questions, we examine whether Twitter sentiment about Barack Obama tells us about Americans’ attitudes toward the president, the attitudes of particular subsets of individuals, or something else entirely. Spe…
A Typology of Web Survey Paradata for Assessing Total Survey Error
This article reviews the existing literature on the collection of paradata in web surveys and extends the research in this area beyond the commonly studied measurement error problem to paradata that can be collected for managing and mitigating other important sources of error. To do so, and in keeping with the nature of paradata as process-oriented, we develop a typology of web survey paradata that incorporates information from all steps in the w…
A Typology of Web Survey Paradata for Assessing Total Survey Error
This article reviews the existing literature on the collection of paradata in web surveys and extends the research in this area beyond the commonly studied measurement error problem to paradata that can be collected for managing and mitigating other important sources of error. To do so, and in keeping with the nature of paradata as process-oriented, we develop a typology of web survey paradata that incorporates information from all steps in the w…
Who’s Tweeting About the President? What Big Survey Data Can Tell Us About Digital Traces
Researchers hoping to make inferences about social phenomena using social media data need to answer two critical questions: What is it that a given social media metric tells us? And who does it tell us about? Drawing from prior work on these questions, we examine whether Twitter sentiment about Barack Obama tells us about Americans’ attitudes toward the president, the attitudes of particular subsets of individuals, or something else entirely. Spe…
A Typology of Web Survey Paradata for Assessing Total Survey Error
This article reviews the existing literature on the collection of paradata in web surveys and extends the research in this area beyond the commonly studied measurement error problem to paradata that can be collected for managing and mitigating other important sources of error. To do so, and in keeping with the nature of paradata as process-oriented, we develop a typology of web survey paradata that incorporates information from all steps in the w…
Who’s Tweeting About the President? What Big Survey Data Can Tell Us About Digital Traces
Researchers hoping to make inferences about social phenomena using social media data need to answer two critical questions: What is it that a given social media metric tells us? And who does it tell us about? Drawing from prior work on these questions, we examine whether Twitter sentiment about Barack Obama tells us about Americans’ attitudes toward the president, the attitudes of particular subsets of individuals, or something else entirely. Spe…
Computer Science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Statistics (2 works) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Big data (1 work) · Data mining (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Demographics (1 work)