September 26, 2019
CSSCR Newsletter, Autumn 2019
From the Director
Academic Year 2019-20 is upon us—welcome to and welcome back to campus and Autumn Quarter!
This is our Autumn 2019 CSSCR announcement/newsletter. Below you will find our listing of workshops for the quarter. 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. We did change our address last year so insure you are pointed to — http://csscr.washington.edu/
If you plan on using the computer labs for the Autumn Quarter, or more importantly, for the coming Winter and Spring Quarters 2020 make your reservations now! We have limited space for Autumn and space for Winter is rapidly disappearing and Spring space begins to disappear sooner than one would think. 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, and other academic events.
Above all enjoy the beginning of the new academic year and the new quarter… Fall is some of the best weather and times to be on campus!
–Best wishes,
Jerry Herting
CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Autumn 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
course 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: Monday, October 7, 2019
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
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: Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
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
course 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, October 16, 2019
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Introduction to SPSS
Description:
This courses 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: Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Data Manipulation/Data “Wrangling” in R
Description:
This course 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: Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Basic Graphics in R
Description:
This course 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: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, October 21, 2019
Time: 8:30am – 9:30am
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: Monday, October 21, 2019
Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link:
Additional News/Information
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
Autumn Quarter 2019
Consulting/Computers: Drop-in consulting and computer labs 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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