April 2, 2021
CSSCR Newsletter Spring 2021
From the Director:
CSSCR’s key services remain online for Spring 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. We are here to help with your students, your research, your courses!
Below you will find our proposed CSSCR workshops for Spring quarter and the links to register for the workshops.
If there is a workshop you’d enjoy seeing this quarter or one for future quarters please send us your suggestion.
Best wishes,
Jerry Herting
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CSSCR Short Workshops for Spring 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: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
- TIme: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
- Format: synchronous
- Register here.
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Introduction to Using Tableau
Description: This is an introductory workshop demonstrating the use of Tableau for analyses and visualization of data. Emphasis will be on using Tableau for mapping/displaying geographic based data. No prior knowledge of Tableau is assumed.
- Instructor: Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- TIme: 10:30am – 11:30am
- Format: synchronous
- 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: Thursday, April 15, 2021
- TIme: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
- Format: synchronous
- Register here.
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Introduction to Qualitative Analysis using ATLAS.ti
Description: This workshop 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. The course assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti
- Instructor: Baishakhi Basu, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2020
- TIme: 3:30pm -4:30pm
- Format: asynchronous – video link will be distributed prior on 4/16 and Q&A will be held at the scheduled time 4/21 starting at 3:30pm.
- Register here.
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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: Mike Babb, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Monday, April 26, 2021
- TIme: 11:30am – 12:30pm
- Format: synchronous
- Register here.
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Graphics in Stata
Description: This workshop is designed to introduce you to the basics of creating and editing graphs in Stata; the workshop illustrates simple descriptive graphs (e.g. boxplots), common practices for bivariate and time-series displays, and standard regression fit plots. Some base introductory knowledge of Stata is assumed.
- Instructor: Zhe Liu, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Monday, April 26, 2021
- TIme: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
- 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: Tuesday, April 27, 2021
- TIme: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
- Format: synchronous
- Register here.
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Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link.
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Recent and New Data at CSSCR
- Recent data:
- 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
- 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
- NEW DATA:
- 2019 ACS 5-year Summary File estimates for Washington State
- 2019 ACS 5-year Summary File estimates for US
- 2019 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State
- 2019 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US
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ICPSR access at CSSCR and ICPSR Summer Programs
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.
Also ICPSR at U. of Michigan has summer workshops and trainings that are available through our membership; their are fees but also scholarships at ICPSR are available. The ICPSR Summer Program webpage is at: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/sumprog/.
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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
SPRING 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@uw.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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