{"id":344,"date":"2019-01-04T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csscr\/?p=344"},"modified":"2019-01-07T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:48:38","slug":"csscr-newsletter-winter-2019-number-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csscr\/2019\/01\/04\/csscr-newsletter-winter-2019-number-i\/","title":{"rendered":"CSSCR Newsletter, Winter 2019, Number I"},"content":{"rendered":"

CSSCR Winter 2019, Number I<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Director<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome back to campus after an extended holiday break and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

This is our Winter 2019 CSSCR announcement. Below you will find our listing of workshops for the quarter and some new data sources.\u00a0 Do check out our new website http:\/\/csscr.washington.edu\/<\/a> 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\u00a0here<\/a>, and our newsletter archive is found\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A reminder we did change our website configuration and location.\u00a0 If you do have a saved link to us you should insure it is for the new site— http:\/\/csscr.washington.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0online calendar<\/a>. Give us a call (206-543-8110<\/a>) or drop us an email at\u00a0csscr@u.washington.edu<\/a>. The labs can be reserved by faculty in our\u00a0member departments<\/a>. Students and student groups from our member departments are also welcomed to reserve the labs for workshops, experiments, group projects, etc.<\/p>\n

Above all enjoy the start-up Winter quarter\u2026 always starts out a bit cold and dreary but typically ends up with cherry blossoms!<\/p>\n

–Best wishes, Jerry Herting<\/p>\n

Short Workshop Offerings Winter Quarter 2019<\/h3>\n

(listed in order of scheduled appearance)<\/h3>\n

Introduction to R using Rstudio<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, January 18, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a09:00am- 10:00am
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 121
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Introduction to Python<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis class will provide you the basics of PYTHON for both gathering data from public sources and providing analyses.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Mike Babb, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday, January 22, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a012:30pm – 1:30pm
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 117
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Introduction to GIS\/ArcGIS<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday, January 23, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30pm – 4:30pm
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 117
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Introduction to R using Rstudio<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday, January 24, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a02:30pm- 3:30pm
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 121
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Introduction to SPSS<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Galen Kerrick, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, January 25, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a09:30am – 10:30am
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 117
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Introduction to STATA<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis workshop will introduce you to the basic Stata statistical package including reading in STATA datasets, basic data manipulation in Stata, and common statistical procedures.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday, January 30, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30pm – 4:30pm
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 121
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Introduction to Qualitative Research and ATLAS.ti<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a0Monday, January 28, 2019
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a012:30pm – 1:30pm
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0Savery 121
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Data Wrangling in R<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Yuan Hsiao, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate: Tuesday, \u00a0February 5, 2019
\nTime: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
\nPlace: Savery 121
\nRegister <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Intermediate SPSS<\/h3>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis workshops builds from CSSCR’s introductory SPSS workshops and includes additional data management topics as well as more statistical procedures.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Gabbs Gorsky, CSSCR Consultant
\nDate: Tuesday, February 5, 2019
\nTime: 12:30pm –<\/strong> 1:30pm
\nPlace:<\/strong>\u00a0 Savery 117
\nRegister\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again to register for any of the above workshops follow this link<\/a>:<\/h2>\n

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