Peter Grimbeek online : A fine blend of work & pleasure

 

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This website serves as a notice board and advertorial.

An initial aim was to make available an analysis of site usage for the Griffith University Research methods forum at a time when I was still managing that site. I'm no longer manager of the research methods forum, and the analysis is somewhat dated, but it lingers on in the form of a number of linked pages.

The site serves in part to advertise an interest in things methodological, and you're welcome to enquire about more specific statistical or advice and assistance.

The site provides links to papers that canvas methodological matters such as:

  • using Rasch analysis to screen data prior to factor analyses (exploratory or confirmatory)
  • using a multivariate version of Correspondence analyis (SPSS Optimal scaling) to generate demographic profiles ala Pierre Bourdieu
  • using the automated text analysis software, Leximancer, to identify categories (nodes, concepts) in various types of text-based data sets, and, more importantly, to view the associations between these via a two-dimensional concept map that uses spatial distance to map the extent of their co-occurrences.

The site provides elementary guides on the use of selected quantitative and qualitative software programs (SPSS, AMOS, Leximancer, or NVivo) either in terms of how to do specific analyses or on how to report the outcomes of such analyses.

On a more personal note, the site provides links to websites by friends and acquaintances, as well as to a couple of other websites of general interest. A largely future venture is to add photos from family and friends.

As a matter of historical interest, I've included a couple of links to webpages that refer to my stay in New Zealand in the late 1960s. I should add that some of the detail is not entirely accurate. For example, the 1969 issue of the University of Canterbury poetry magazine, Plastic, was edited by me, Kathy Healam, and Malcolm Brown. Elsewhere Denis List (until recently at the University of South Australia) endearingly but not entirely correctly describes me as missing (I moved to Australia in January 1970). From my perspective, it's NZ friends and associates from those days such as John Hales, Kathy Healam, and Malcolm Brown that are missing.

Another friend from that era, Alistair (Alister) Hallum, has done quite well. Alistair started out as an industrial design student in NZ and, as far as I can tell, ended up working for the BBC after making a film, Mud and Water Man, about a well-known potter, Michael Cardew), to whom he was briefly apprenticed.

If you want more information about any of the stuff mentioned on this page, feel free to contact me directly.

Peter Grimbeek