The Center for Social Science Computation and Research

March 29, 2022

CSSCR Newsletter Spring 2022

From the Director

Spring has arrived!  CSSCR is operating at pretty much normal levels and look forward to serving our old and new friends this Spring.  We are running our in-person drop-in consulting office in Savery Hall 119 as in the past except we have removed evening in-person hours and are only online in the evening from 6PM to 9PM Monday through Thursday.  Our Main Office (Savery 110) and drop-in computer lab (Savery 118) are open from 8AM to 5PM.   And our two computer classroom labs are open for reservations per usual.

While we are fully in-person, we are still providing access to online consulting during the hours from 8AM to 5PM — just send a note describing your problem/request to CSSCR@uw.edu.  For consulting online after 5PM send a note to CSSCR_evening@uw.edu.  You will be contacted in return to set up a zoom meeting or asked additional questions to ensure you are routed to the best consultant to serve your needs.

Also this Spring Quarter we will once again offer in-person workshops on a variety of topics (see list below).  These workshops are generally of an introductory nature and designed to get you started on a variety of software.   Registration for the workshops is provided below.

Hope you enjoyed your spring break and are relaxed and ready for another quarter.

Best regards,

Jerry Herting

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CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Spring Quarter 2022

***Workshops are listed in the order of the dates they are delivered***

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Introduction to SPSS

Description:   This workshop introduces the SPSS statistical package including reading in datafiles, as well as basic data management and introductory statistical procedures. Additional topics include computing and recoding variables and selecting and filtering cases.

  • Instructor:  Youngwon Kim, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Tuesday, April 12, 2022
  • Time:  1:30pm – 2:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • 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: Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Wednesday,  April 13, 2022
  • Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • 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, April 15, 2022
  • TIme:  9:30am – 10:30am
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab) Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • Register here.

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Introduction to Python

Description:  This introductory workshop is designed to introduce you to basic Python commands, including reading in datasets, basic data manipulation, and common statistical tests and procedures. This will also cover common Python IDEs and comparisons to other popular programming languages such as Stata and R.  This class will be ideal for users who have little to no experience with Python.

  • Instructor:  Kovid Puria, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Monday,  April 18, 2022
  • Time:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

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Basic Graphics and Data Visualization in R

Description:   This CSCCR workshop introduces students to ways of producing effect graphs and visualization 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.  A basic user level of R / Rstudio is assumed.

  • Instructor: Zhaowen Guo, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
  • Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • 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: Victoria Sass, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Wednesday,  April 20, 2022
  • Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • 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:  Thursday, April 21, 2022
  • Time:  2:30pm -3:30pm
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • Register here.

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Introduction to Text Analysis using R

Description:  This workshop will introduce the basics of text analysis in R using the tools from the “tidytext” package. Participants will learn how to manage and clean text data, perform sentiment analysis, and calculate descriptive statistics on a body of text.   Basic level of using R/Rstudio is assumed.

  • Instructor:  Steve Karceski, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Friday, April 29, 2022
  • Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • Register here.

 

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If you have questions or problems registering please send a note to CSSCR@uw.edu.

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Recent and New Data at CSSCR 

  • NEW DATA:
  • 2020 ACS 5-year Summary File estimates for Washington State (available in mid-April)
  • 2020 ACS 5-year Summary File estimates for US  (available in mid-April)
  • 2020 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State  (available in mid-April)
  • 2020 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US  (mid-available in April)
  • RECENT DATA:  
  • 2020 ACS 1-Year Experimental Data Tables
  • 2020 ACS 1-Year PUMS with Experimental weights for WA
  • 2020 ACS 1-Year PUMS with Experimental weights for US
  • 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

Also see news regarding data availability for Census 2020 at our website under Data Archive Decennial Census http://depts.washington.edu/csscr/census/

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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 (csscr@uw.edu) 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

CSSCR is an in-person service except for evenings (see below for hours)!  

Drop in In-Person Consulting (Savery 119) — no appointment needed just stop on by!

Monday-Thursday 8AM-6PM
Friday 8AM-5PM

If you prefer an online meeting during the above times…simply e-mail csscr@uw.edu  with your question/problem.

Evening on-line consulting — send requests for consulting help to csscr_evening@uw.edu

Evening hours are Monday-Thursday 6PM-9PM
Send requests to csscr_evening@uw.edu

Main office and other services (Savery 110)

Main office is open Monday-Friday 8AM-12PM and 1PM-5PM — Please send queries to csscr@uw.edu.

We are closed weekends and for all University holidays.

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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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