Welcome to the 2026-2027 Academic year. CSSCR was founded in 1972, making this our 54th year serving the social sciences in research and teaching at the UW. The nature of computing has changed radically since CSSCR was founded. Recent developments include new computationally intensive statistical methods, availability of new technologies for collection, handling and analysis of large data sets, and practical advancements in artificial intelligence. Indeed, computational techniques are more important in the social sciences than ever. CSSCR is here to serve you, through our data and analytical consulting services, through secure data facilities, by access to teaching computer labs, training in our workshops (see below), or through our poster printing service. <\/p>\n
There are some new faces at CSSCR. Our new consultants this year are Kefan Yu (Education), Ramses Llobert (Political Science), Carly Perryman (Social Work) and Edward Stuart (Anthropology, starting in Winter quarter). CSSCR also has a new team member, Karoliina Kuisma, who serves as the Administrator for CSSCR, CSDE and CSSS. <\/p>\n
Our services are open to faculty, staff, and students in our member units. Our consulting services are available to the whole university community. We look forward to serving you this year.<\/p>\n
Darryl Holman
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Atlas.ti for Qualitative Thematic Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: This workshop provides a practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti, by marrying the functionality of this software with the fundamentals of the qualitative methodology. This hands-on training will include creating a dummy qualitative project with sample interview data, conceptualizing the workflow, identifying quotations, and creating various types of codes, memos, comments before culminating into establishing thematic relationships. This workshop assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti, however, requires CSDE Terminal Server log-in (sign up here<\/a> for FREE with UWNetID) that must be fully set up prior to the workshop.<\/p>\n ***************************** Creating Research Posters in PowerPoint<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: This workshop covers the mechanics of putting together a research poster for scholarly communications using PowerPoint. This course will help you create posters for academic conferences, the Undergraduate Research Symposium, or course poster presentations. <\/p>\n ***************************** Sequence Analysis in R<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: This workshop introduces sequence analysis as a practical way to study patterns in data using R. Participants will learn how to work with sequences such as behavioral patterns, and discover how R can be used to visualize, cluster, and interpret them. Participants are expected to have basic familiarity with R. <\/p>\n **************************** Introduction to Agentic Coding<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: Agentic coding utilizes LLM apps (ChatGPT or Claude) that have access to your project’s files and can generate code, organize your directories, push changes to GitHub, and make slides and reports. This workshop introduces a research workflow with ChatGPT’s Codex. If you have a Claude Code subscription, you are also welcome to join, but I will be demonstrating with Codex. Note: this workshop is great for you if you have already accessed or plan to access a paid subscription to either ChatGPT or Claude. <\/p>\n ***************************** Geospatial Analysis in Python<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: This workshop introduces core concepts and tools for working with spatial data in Python, providing overview for geospatial data models, vector analysis with Shapely\/GeoPandas, and raster processing with Rasterio\/GDAL. Prior knowledge of Python is preferred, but not required.<\/p>\n ***************************** Data Wrangling in R<\/strong><\/p>\n Description:\u00a0 This workshop explores some of R’s useful tools for data transformation, management and exploration. It will introduce some key concepts and techniques for data wrangling primarily using the Tidyverse packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R.<\/p>\n ***************************** Human Gates for AI Agents in Research<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: AI agents can produce polished research outputs while quietly making mistakes or choices that affect the findings. This hands-on workshop introduces human gates: checkpoints where researchers review evidence and decide whether the work should proceed. Through practical exercises, you will write research briefs and use reusable AI skills to organize checks and prepare evidence for review, learning where to place these gates, what to check, and how to build them into your own research workflows.<\/p>\n ***************************** CSSCR maintains the UW’s membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). All members of the UW community have direct access to ICPSR\u2019s 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\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n CSSCR maintains an extensive catalog of data sets beyond those available through ICPSR. Please contact us for more information about data sets you are looking for. <\/p>\n **************************** The Center for Social Science Computation and Research<\/strong>\u00a0(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 member departments, schools, and centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n CSSCR is primarily an in-person service<\/p>\n Drop in In-Person Consulting (Savery 119)—no appointment needed just stop on by!<\/p>\n Hours: Monday-Friday 9am—5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n If you prefer an online meeting during the above times, e-mail csscr@uw.edu\u00a0<\/a> with your question or problem and we will arrange a Zoom meeting or answer your questions via e-mail.<\/p>\n Main office and other services (Savery 110)<\/p>\n Main office is open\u00a0Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM–Please send queries to csscr@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are closed weekends and for all University holidays. Contact Us:<\/strong><\/p>\n Center for Social Science Computation & Research CSSCR workshops are open to members of the UW community without regard to race, national origin, sex, identity or any other protected class status. If you would like to request academic accommodations for 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 Darryl Holman at CSSCR to discuss the necessary classroom accommodations.<\/p>\n University of Washington Terms and Conditions of Use<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Send mail<\/a>\u00a0for questions or comments about this newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the 2026-2027 Academic year. CSSCR was founded in 1972, making this our 54th year serving the social sciences in research and teaching at the UW. The nature of computing has changed radically since CSSCR was founded. Recent developments include new computationally intensive statistical methods, availability of new technologies for collection, handling and analysis…<\/p>\n\n
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