January 9, 2020

CSSCR Newsletter, Winter 2020

From the Director

Welcome to the New Year 2020 and the new decade! Hope all enjoyed the long winter vacation and are moderately prepared for the new quarter!

This is our Winter 2020 CSSCR announcement/newsletter. Below you will find our listing of workshops for the Winter 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.

If you plan on using the computer labs for the Winter Quarter, or more importantly, for the coming Spring Quarter and Summer Sessions 2020 make your reservations now! We have very limited space for Winter and space for Spring is rapidly disappearing. 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.

For those using and assigning use of our poster printing service, note we do have new policies regarding POSTER printing. Please insure you and your students review them before submitting requests!

Above all enjoy the beginning of 2020 and the new quarter…

–Best wishes,

Jerry Herting

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CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Winter Quarter 2020

(listed in order of scheduled appearance)

Introduction to R using R Studio

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: Thursday, January 23, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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: Monday, January 27, 2020
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

Introduction to Qualitative Research 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. Time permitting we may also discuss best practices for data management. The course assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti.

Instructor: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

Data Manipulation/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: Charles Lanfear, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Time: 8:30am – 9:30am
Place:  Savery 117
Register here.

Introduction to R using R Studio

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: Youngwon Kim, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Place: Savery 117
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: Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Place: Savery 117
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: Amelia Patrice, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link:

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Recent and New Data at CSSCR

• 2018 ACS 1-year Summary File estimates for Washington State

• 2018 ACS 1-year Summary File estimates for US

• 2018 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State

• 2018 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US

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.

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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

Winter Quarter 2020

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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