As dedicated data curators, we’re excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: A New Long-Term Perspective on the Environment and Sustainability – The GLEN Study What do people in Germany think about phasing out internal combustion engines, renewable energy, or …
As dedicated data curators, we’re excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: Thematic Data Collection: Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020–2022 (TGCPD) During the COVID-19 pandemic, protest movements against containment measures emerged in many countries. In German-speaking contexts, these protests were …
In the first blog post of the KODAQS Toolbox series, we discussed how data quality issues can affect survey data. Similar challenges arise in digital behavioral data (DBD), though they often manifest differently. Researchers may encounter missing or deleted posts, inconsistent annotation schemes across datasets, or preprocessing decisions – such …
What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? At GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, a dedicated team has documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv preprints, revealing surprising twists and the evolving relationship between speedy online sharing and formal journal publication. The newly …
Using a dataset of the GESIS Panel.dbd from 2023, this article examines AI use and attitudes in Germany. Almost half of the respondents had tried ChatGPT while one in five had not heard of it. Both positive and negative attitudes toward AI were common. Most agreement was found on the …
Digital technologies have profoundly changed our lives. Social media, online platforms, and smartphones are a taken-for-granted part of our everyday life. They generate quantities of so-called Digital Behavioral Data, DBD — traces of human and algorithmic actions in the digital space. The problem is that DBD arise as a by-product …