January 4, 2019
CSSCR Newsletter, Winter 2019, Number I
CSSCR Winter 2019, Number I
From the Director
Welcome back to campus after an extended holiday break and Happy New Year!
This is our Winter 2019 CSSCR announcement. Below you will find our listing of workshops for the quarter and some new data sources. Do check out our new website http://csscr.washington.edu/ for updates and for changes in our workshop scheduling! 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 Winter Quarter or for this coming Spring Quarter make your reservations now! Lab space is filling up; we have some available time still for this Winter Quarter and it is always good to get your next quarter requests in early. 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, etc.
Above all enjoy the start-up Winter quarter… always starts out a bit cold and dreary but typically ends up with cherry blossoms!
–Best wishes, Jerry Herting
Short Workshop Offerings Winter 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 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: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Friday, January 18, 2019
Time: 9:00am- 10:00am
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: Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to GIS/ArcGIS
Description:
This workshop 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, January 23, 2019
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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 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: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
Time: 2:30pm- 3:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
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: Galen Kerrick, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Friday, January 25, 2019
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to STATA
Description:
This workshop 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: Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Introduction to Qualitative Research and 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. Time permitting, we may also briefly discuss best practices for data management. The workshop assumes no prior use of Atlas-ti.
Instructor: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, January 28, 2019
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
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: Yuan Hsiao, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here..
Intermediate SPSS
Description:
This workshops builds from CSSCR’s introductory SPSS workshops and includes additional data management topics as well as more statistical procedures.
Instructor: Gabbs Gorsky, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link:
Recent and New Data at CSSCR
- Recent data updates—
- 2017 ACS 1-year Summary File for Washington State
- 2017 ACS 1-year Summary File for US
- 2017 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for Washington State
- 2017 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for US
- Previous updates—
- 2012-2016 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for Washington State
- 2012-2016 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for the US
CSSCR provides complete ACS-SF & ACS-PUMS files in SPSS, STATA, R and SAS formats for Washington State and US. They are accessible through CSSCR’s ACS site. Data specialist, Tina Tian (contact at csscr@uw.edu), can provide help on using ACS estimates and other census data.
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
Winter Quarter 2019
Consulting and Computers are available Monday to Thursday: 8:00am to 9:00pm, Friday: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Main Office: Monday to Friday: 8:00am 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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