Goldring & Julie Scott Jones 
Exploratory and Descriptive Statistics [PDF ebook] 

Introducing Descriptive and Exploratory Statistics
Finding Data to Describe
Measure everything – Learn something – Answer nothing: An exploration into variables and types of Measurement
I am not a number, I am a categorical variable
I like being average, I am an interval variable
Visualising Our Data
The story waiting to be told

Professor Julie Scott Jones is the Head of the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the MMU Q-Step Centre, which received £1.15 million in funding from the Nuffield Foundation-ESRC-HEFCE.  She joined Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003 and since 2018 has been the Head of department.  Julie is the author of ‘Being the Chosen; exploring a Christian Fundamentalist Worldview’ (2010) and co-author of ‘Ethnography in Social Science Practice’ (2010).  More recently, she has co-authored a number of journal articles on the pedagogy of quantitative methods teaching, based on her current research based in this field.  She is currently teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate research methods modules, with a particular interest in ethics and quantitative data analysis.