The Center for Social Science Computation and Research

June 27, 2022

CSSCR Summer Sessions 2022 Newsletter

From the Director

Summer has arrived—we have seen the sun two or three times and crossed the 70 degree threshold at least twice!  CSSCR is operating on our reduced summer schedule. We are running our in-person drop-in consulting office in Savery Hall 119 from 9AM to 5PM Monday through Friday.   Our Main Office (Savery 110) and drop-in computer lab (Savery 118) are open from 9AM to 5PM.   And our two computer classroom labs are open during these times for reservations per usual.

While we are fully in-person, we are still providing access to online consulting during the hours from 9AM to 5PM — just send a note describing your problem/request to CSSCR@uw.edu.

As per usual we suspend our evening consulting for the summer.

Also this Summer Quarter we will offer a limited set of in-person workshops (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 also get to enjoy a bit of summer along with your research and course work!

Best regards,

Jerry Herting

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CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Summer Quarter 2022

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

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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,  July 19, 2022
  • Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

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Introduction to QGIS

Description:   This workshop will provide a basic overview of foundational concepts in Geographic Information Systems. Topics include data acquisition and management, geoprocessing tools, and simple cartographic displays. For this brief analysis we will be working exclusively with vector datasets.

  • Instructor:  Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Wednesday, July 20, 2022
  • TIme:  11:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location:  Savery 117 (Big 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:  Wednesday, July 20, 2022
  • Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • 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, July 21, 2022
  • Time:  1:30pm -2:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big 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!  

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

Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM

If you prefer an online meeting during the above times…simply e-mail csscr@uw.edu  with your question/problem and we will arrange a Zoom meeting or answer your questions via e-mail.

NOTE:  Evening on-line consulting is not in operation during the summer.

Main office and other services (Savery 110)

Main office is open Monday-Friday 9AM-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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