Resources for students, graduate students, and faculty
Tips for Success
Technical resources
Writing, editing, and reviewing
Presentations
Studying and/or teaching
Research design and analysis methods
Information Systems theory, journals, conferences, and people
Notes:
[1] This list is not comprehensive; I have many other resources available for each of these topics.
[2] If any links are broken, please be courteous and let me know!
Technical resources
- W3 Schools - tutorial on SQL
- Codecademy - a favorite web site for learning new technologies and programming languages
- Datacamp - data analytics modules and practice using the R and Python languages
- Python Challenge - a set of puzzles to be solved using the Python language
- Project Euler - a set of math and logic problems that I use for practicing programming languages
- HTML5 elements list for webpage editing
Writing, editing, and reviewing
- Tips for writing an academic paper (mainly structure and grammar tips) from Fussy Professor Starbuck
- Logical fallacies to avoid
- LaTeX basic tutorial
- Citing papers using APA style
- Tips for reviewing a manuscript from Allen Lee
Presentations
- Cool alternatives to PowerPoint: Canva, Prezi and slid.es
- Excellent tips for creating nice presentations: here, here, and more here
- Excellent tips for creating a nice academic poster: here and here
- Easy photo-editing for using nice figures in papers and presentations: PicMonkey and PhotoFunia
Studying and/or teaching
- Quizlet and Card Kiwi - flash card tools for studying or for using with students
- Articles, news, and blogs about teaching: Chronicle of Higher Ed, Educause, Inside Higher Ed
- Tools for teaching partially-online, team-based, lecture-free classes: here and here
Research design and analysis methods
- Free Statistical Calculators
- Traditional methods: StatWiki (CFA, PLS, SEM resources for I.S. researchers); choosing the correct statistical test; tips and instructions for using SPSS, SAS, and Stata
- Data mining / analytics: basic list of resources; Weka software for data mining; resources for learning mining and analytics using SPSS and SAS JMP
- Interesting tools I've used for text analysis: Concordance tool, Google NGrams, Sentiment analysis tools, LightSide (text mining)
- Social network analysis tools I've used (contact me for more info): Pajek, Sci2, NodeXL, Network Workbench
Information Systems theory, journals, conferences, and people
- List of theories in IS research
- Bibliometric study in MISQ on top IS journals (YouTube abstract)
- V. Venkatesh site for IS journal rankings and authors (no longer free - must have institutional membership)
- Index of IS journals database
- Favorite conferences: AIS conferences, Collective Intelligence conference, ACM's CSCW
Notes:
[1] This list is not comprehensive; I have many other resources available for each of these topics.
[2] If any links are broken, please be courteous and let me know!
