The Center for Social Science Computation and Research

January 14, 2021

CSSCR Newsletter, Winter 2021

From the Director:

As we have previously announced CSSCR services largely remain online again for Winter quarter. Our “drop in” consulting services can simply be accessed by sending a request to csscr@uw.edu with a brief description of your question/problem; this allows us to route you to the most appropriate consultant on duty. Consultants are on duty from 8AM to 9PM M-Th and 8AM to 5PM on Friday; we are closed weekends and on all university holidays. Requests for data services, other services, and general questions can also be addressed at csscr@uw.edu.

Below you will find our proposed CSSCR workshops for Winter quarter and the links to register for the workshops.

So welcome to 2021! We plan to provide excellent service whether online or in person… we just hope to be in person again sometime in 2021!

Best wishes,

Jerry Herting

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CSSCR Short Workshops for Winter Quarter 2021

(Workshops are listed in order of their scheduled appearance. All workshops are online and those registered will be sent Zoom links the day before the workshop—questions??? please send a note to csscr@uw.edu)

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Introduction to R using R Studio

Description:   This workshop will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The workshop will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.

  • Instructor:  Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Wednesday, January 20, 2021
  • TIme:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • Format:  synchronous
  • Register here.

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Introduction to GIS/ArcGIS

Description:   This course will provide students with a broad overview of what geographic information systems (GISs) are and how social scientists can benefit from using them in their research. Students will explore basic GIS concepts through hands-on exercises using ArcGIS, a widely used GIS software package, as well as freely available data sets.

  • Instructor:  Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Friday, January 22, 2021
  • TIme:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • Format:  asynchronous – video distributed two days prior and this date provides Q&A opportunity. Must register to receive the video link.
  • Register here.

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Data Wrangling in R

Description:   This workshop will cover some of R’s useful tools for data management and exploration. Most of class will be devoted to learning Hadley Wickham’s excellent “tidyr” and “dplyr” packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R/Rstudio.

  • Instructor:  Youngwon Kim, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Monday, January 25, 2021
  • TIme:  10:30am – 12:00 (noon)
  • Format:  synchronous
  • Register here.

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Introduction to Stata

Description:   This workshop is designed to introduce you to the basic Stata statistical package including reading in STATA datasets, basic data manipulation in Stata, and common statistical procedures.

  • Instructor:  Zhe Liu, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Wednesday, January 27, 2021
  • TIme:  1:30pm – 2:30pm
  • Format:  synchronous
  • Register here.

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Basic Graphics in R

Description:   This CSCCR workshop introduces students to ways of producing effect graphs in R.  Topics covered will include basic plotting functions (e.g. histograms, scatter plots), production of multi-panel graphs, and various means of exporting graphs to other presentation packages.

  • Instructor:  Yuan Hsiao, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Friday, January 29, 2021
  • TIme:  10:30am – 11:30am
  • Format:  synchronous
  • Register here.

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Direct Coding of Audio Data using ATLAS.ti

Description:   This workshop focuses on the ability to directly code audio data (e.g. interviews) using ATLAS.ti software.  Direct coding of the data can make transcripting unnecessary, hence, can be initiated soon after data collection.  If time permits, some visualization techniques ( such as Word Clouds) will be introduced.  The workshop assumes a base knowledge of ATLAS.ti (see an Introduction to ATLAS.ti workshop from Fall 2020 here). While the workshop does not require having access to Atlas-ti it is helpful.  For UW students/researchers/faculty access to ATLAS.ti on CSDE terminal server is available, please contact CSDE (Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology).

  • Instructor:  Baishakhi Basu, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Tuesday, February 2, 2021
  • TIme:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • Format:  synchronous
  • Register here.

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Introduction to Python

Description:   This workshop will provide you the basics in getting started with Python for both data gathering from public sources and providing analyses.  No prior experience necessary.   

  • Instructor:  Mike Babb, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Thursday, February 4, 2021
  • TIme:  11:30am – 1:30pm (2 hour workshop)
  • Format:  synchronous
  • Register here.

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Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link.

Recent and New Data at CSSCR 

  • Recent data:  
  • 2018 ACS 1-year Summary File estimates for Washington State
  • 2018 ACS 1-year Summary File estimates for US
  • 2018 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State
  • 2018 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US
  • 2018 ACS 5-year Summary File estimates for Washington State
  • 2018 ACS 5-year Summary File estimates for US
  • 2018 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State
  • 2018 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US
  • NEW DATA:  
  • 2019 ACS 1-year Summary File estimates for Washington State
  • 2019 ACS 1-year Summary File estimates for US
  • 2019 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State
  • 2019 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US

ICPSR access at CSSCR 

CSSCR maintains the UW membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). All members of the UW community have direct access to ICPSR’s data archive of over 9,900 studies. Please contact us if you have questions or need more information about using this resource for accessing data or adding your data to the ICPSR repository. ICPSR new data releases and other news can be found here.

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The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) is an interdepartmental computer center in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington. CSSCR provides facilities and consulting support for computing activity related to teaching and research at the University.

Hours of Operation/Online Access

Note: CSSCR is primarily operating online this quarter
Winter Quarter 

Online Consulting

Monday-Thursday 8AM-9PM
Friday 8AM-5PM
Send requests to csscr@uw.edu

Main Office and other services

Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
Staffing is primarily online; some services are available by appointment.  Please send queries to csscr@uw.edu.

We are closed weekends and for all University holidays.

Contact Us:

Center for Social Science Computation & Research
University of Washington
110 Savery Hall
Box 353345
Seattle, Washington 98195 U.S.A.
(206) 543-8110    csscr@u.washington.edu   http://csscr.washington.edu

If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services, 448 Schmitz, 543-8924 (V/TDD). If you have a letter from Disabled Student Services requesting academic Accommodations, please present the letter to Jerald Herting at CSSCR so we may discuss the necessary classroom accommodations.

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