Likert scales are often used in visualization evaluations to produce quantitative estimates of
subjective attributes, such as ease of use or aesthetic appeal. However, the methods used to …

Rating scales and rubrics are commonly used measurement tools in educational contexts.
Unfortunately, there is a great deal of controversy surrounding how data derived from these …

Text preprocessing is not only an essential step to prepare the corpus for modeling but also
a key area that directly affects the natural language processing (NLP) application results. For …

Recommender systems are an important part of the information and e-commerce ecosystem.
They represent a powerful method for enabling users to filter through large information and …

Today, depending on topic, goal and budget, all kinds of sampling methods are being used,
in order to collect consumer data for research in the wine business. However, it is …

Word embeddings are real-valued word representations able to capture lexical semantics
and trained on natural language corpora. Models proposing these representations have …

Prior to undertaking a descriptive study on attrition and retention of students in two online
undergraduate health administration and human service programs, a pilot test was …

This article presents nearly 10 year's worth of System Usability Scale (SUS) data collected
on numerous products in all phases of the development lifecycle. The SUS, developed by …

This book evolved from a series of Ph. D. seminars presented to students both at Tsinghua
University in Beijing and at the University of Illinois—Chicago. My lectures, in turn, grew out …

Supply chains play an integral role in today׳ s globalised economy. Hence, in order to truly
pursue sustainable business development, the underlying dynamics and influential themes …