June 25, 2019
CSSCR Newsletter, Summer 2019
From the Director
Welcome to the somewhat lazy days of summer!
This is our Summer 2019 CSSCR announcement/newsletter. Do make note we are in our limited hours mode for the summer quarter—basically we are 9AM to 5PM through the summer months. Below you will find our listing of workshops for the quarter. As always, registration is open and free to anyone in the UW community. Please let your colleagues, staff, and students know by sharing this newsletter. Individuals can subscribe to the newsletter here, and our newsletter archive is found here. A reminder we did change our website configuration and location. If you do have a saved link to us you should insure it is for the new site— http://csscr.washington.edu/
If you plan on using the computer labs for the Summer Sessions or for the coming Fall Quarter make your reservations now! You can verify your lab reservations and check for space availability on our online calendar. Give us a call (206-543-8110) or drop us an email at csscr@u.washington.edu. The labs can be reserved by faculty in our member departments. Students and student groups from our member departments are also welcomed to reserve the labs for workshops, experiments, group projects, and other academic events.
Above all enjoy the summer quarter…be frivolous and take a day or two off to relax a bit!
–Best wishes,
Jerry Herting
CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Summer Quarter 2019
(listed in order of scheduled
appearance)
Introduction to R using Rstudio
Description:
This class will teach you how to get started
with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The
course 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: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Time: 11:30am- 12:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Introduction to Python
Description:
This class will provide you the basics of PYTHON
for both gathering data from public sources and providing analyses.
Instructor: Mike Babb, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, July 15, 2019
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
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: Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to R using Rstudio
Description:
This class will teach you how to get started
with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The
course 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: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Time: 12:00pm- 1:00pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to STATA
Description:
This course will introduce you to the basic Stata statistical package including
reading in STATA datasets, basic data manipulation in Stata, and common
statistical procedures.
Instructor: Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Data Wrangling in R
Description:
This course 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: Yuan Hsiao, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Place: Savery 117.
Register here.
Introduction to Qualitative Research and ATLAS.ti
Description:
This course provides a brief, practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti,
covering basic terminology and functionality of the program. This will include
importing text documents, coding and annotating documents, and exploring
relationships through analysis and query tools. Time permitting, we may also
briefly discuss best practices for data management. The course assumes no prior
use of Atlas-ti.
Instructor: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link:
Additional News/Information
ICPSR Summer Program and Workshop announcements:
ICPSR Summer Program: Founded in 1963, the ICPSR Summer Program offers rigorous,
hands-on training in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis for
students and researchers of all skill levels and backgrounds. Participants in
the ICPSR Summer Program learn how to understand data and gain valuable
research skills that help them to advance their education and careers.
From May through August
2019, the ICPSR Summer Program will offer more than 80 courses in Ann Arbor,
Michigan and other cities around the world. Registration is now open for all
courses.
For information about
the ICPSR Summer Program, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/
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.
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
Summer Quarter 2019
Consulting/Computers are available Monday to Friday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Main Office: Monday to Friday: 9:00am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 5:00pm
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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