MethodsNews Summer 2012

Contents: Teaching quantitative methods, by Malcolm Williams;

Is there a single ‘right’ way to study political text?, by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey;

Open data: problems and promise, by David J. Hand;

After the Census, by David Martin;

Volunteered information, geospatial data and agent-based models of criminal behaviour, by Nick Malleson and Mark Birkin;

Are you sure that’s the answer? Uncertainty in evaluation questions, by Mike Brewer;

New ‘What is?’ series launched, by Graham Crow; and

NCRM Annual Lecture by Sir John Beddington: The challenges of the 21st century - the ineluctable need for multidisciplinarity.