01585nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000130007608200200008910000240010924500890013326000300022230000180025250000180027052010230028854600080131165000340131965000380135320260421110330.0260421s2025    |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781071929421  cPK-LaUMT  a320.0285bHOL-I1 aHolbrook, Thomas M.13aAn introduction to political and social data analysis (with R) /cThomas M. Holbrook  aCalifornia :bSage,c2025  axxiii, 450 p.  aIndex present  aOrigin story I have probably used a half a dozen or so different textbooks over the years in my Political Data Analysis course, always thinking that I had finally found the right one, only to inevitably decide that I needed to find something else. I suppose I was a bit like Goldilocks: Most books had many things to recommend them, but none were quite right. Some books had a social science orientation but not much to say about political science. Some books were overly technical, while others were not technical enough. Some books were essentially programming manuals with little to no research design or statistics instruction, while others were very good on research design or statistics but offered very little on the computing side. In the back of my mind, I figured I would eventually have to put up or shut up: I was going to have to put together my own textbook. This book started as a collection of lecture notes that I put online for my undergraduates in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in March of 2020.  aEng  aR (computer program language)  aPolitical science-data processing