The Center for Social Science Computation and Research

December 30, 2023

CSSCR Newsletter Winter 2024

Welcome back from winter holiday break!

CSSCR will be providing our same quality consulting, data, and classroom/computer services in 2024 to our undergraduate, graduate, and staff/faculty clientele. We are running our drop-in in-person consulting in Savery 119 Monday through Friday from 8AM to 6PM (Friday 5PM) and also providing drop-in virtual services during the day and in the evening (M-Th 6PM-9PM). Access daytime virtual service by sending an email to CSSCR@uw.edu requesting help and in the evening (6PM-9PM) contact us at CSSCR_evening@uw.edu. Of course we do enjoy seeing you in person at Savery 119 or at our main office Savery 110.

As usual, we are offering a slate of introductory workshops this Winter Quarter. See the list below. Registration is simple and open to the broad UW community; each workshop has a link to the registration form.

Hope winter break was refreshing and that you are looking forward to the New Year and Winter Quarter!

Best wishes,

Jerry Herting

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CSSCR Workshop Offerings Winter Quarter 2024

***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: Dadmehr Digbar, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Monday,  January 22, 2024
  • 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:  Monday, January 22, 2024
  • Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

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Introduction to Git and GitHub

Description: This workshop will teach you how to get started using Git and GitHub. The workshop will cover a) the motivation for using Git/GitHub, b) the concepts of “remote, local, push and pull”, and c) using R Studio for cloning and pushing within the GitHub framework. No GitHub experience required; some familiarity with R is helpful.

  • Instructor: Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Tuesday,  January 23, 2024
  • Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

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Basic Graphics and Data Visualization in R

Description:   This CSSCR 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: Thursday, January 25, 2024
  • Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • Register here.

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Introduction to SPSS

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

  • Instructor:  Shaena Brun, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Thursday, January 25, 2024
  • Time:  3:30pm – 4:30pm
  • 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: He Ren, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date: Friday,  January 26, 2024
  • Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
  • Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
  • 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:  Victoria Sass, CSSCR Consultant
  • Date:  Monday, January 29, 2024
  • Time:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • 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:  Tuesday, January 30, 2024
  • Time:  11:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location:  Savery 117 (Big Lab)
  • 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 . 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:  Thursday, February 1, 2024
  • Time:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
  • 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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New and Recent Data at CSSCR 

  • NEW DATA:
  • 2022 ACS 1-Year Summary File for WA
  • 2022 ACS 1-Year Summary File for US
  • 2022 ACS 1-Year PUMS for WA
  • 2022 ACS 1-Year PUMS for US
  • RECENT DATA:  
  • 2020 Census 2020 Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) for US
  • 2020 Census 2020 Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) for WA
  • 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) Summary File for WA
  • 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) Summary File for US
  • 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) PUMS for WA
  • 2021 ACS 5-Year (2017–2021) PUMS for US
  • 2021 ACS 1-Year Summary File for WA
  • 2021 ACS 1-Year Summary File for US
  • 2021 ACS 1-Year PUMS for WA
  • 2021 ACS 1-Year PUMS 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 for our constituent members.

Hours of Operation

CSSCR is an in-person service!  

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

Winter Hours Monday-Friday 8AM-6PM (5PM on Friday)

 

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:  Winter Quarter Evening on-line consulting is available Monday – Thursday from 6PM-9PM just send a request to csscr_evening@uw.edu.

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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