Academic Year 2019-20 is upon us—welcome to and welcome back to campus and Autumn Quarter! <\/p>\n
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<\/a>, and our newsletter archive is found here.<\/a> We did change our address last year so insure you are pointed to \u2014 http:\/\/csscr.washington.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n 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<\/a>. Give us a call (206-543-8110<\/a>) or drop us an email at csscr@u.washington.edu<\/a>. The labs can be reserved by faculty in our member departments<\/a>. Students and student groups from our member departments are also welcomed to reserve the labs for workshops, experiments, group projects, and other academic events.<\/p>\n Above all enjoy the beginning of the new academic year and the new quarter\u2026 Fall is some of the best weather and times to be on campus!<\/p>\n \u2013Best wishes,<\/p>\n Jerry Herting<\/p>\n<\/p>\n (listed in order of scheduled appearance)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Description:<\/strong> Instructor:<\/strong> Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant Description:<\/strong> Instructor:<\/strong> Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant Description:<\/strong> Instructor:<\/strong> Anwesha Pan, CSSCR Consultant Description:<\/strong> Instructor:<\/strong> Youngwon Kim, CSSCR Consultant Description:<\/strong> <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Instructor: Yuan Hsiao, CSSCR Consultant Description:<\/strong> Instructor: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant Description:<\/strong> Instructor:<\/strong> Mike Babb, CSSCR Consultant <\/p>\n Additional News\/Information <\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Center for Social Science Computation and Research<\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n Autumn Quarter 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Consulting\/Computers<\/em>: Drop-in consulting and computer labs are available Monday to Thursday: 8:00am to 9:00pm; Friday: 8:00am to 5:00pm<\/p>\n Main Office<\/em>: Monday to Friday: 8:00am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 5:00pm <\/p>\n We are closed weekends and for all University holidays.<\/p>\n Center for Social Science Computation & Research 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.<\/p>\n University of Washington Terms and Conditions of Use<\/a> Send mail<\/a> for questions or comments about this newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/p>\nCSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Autumn Quarter 2019<\/h3>\n
Introduction to R using Rstudio<\/h3>\n
\nThis class will teach you how to get started
\nwith R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The
\ncourse will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good
\nhelp references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for
\nusers who have little or no experience with R.<\/p>\n
Date: <\/strong> Monday, October 7, 2019
Time:<\/strong> 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Place:<\/strong> Savery 121
Register h<\/a>ere.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nIntroduction to GIS\/ArcGIS<\/h3>\n
\nThis course will provide students with a broad overview of what geographic
\ninformation systems (GISs) are and how social scientists can benefit from using
\nthem in their research. Students will explore basic GIS concepts through
\nhands-on exercises using ArcGIS, a widely used GIS software package, as well as
\nfreely available data sets.<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Time:<\/strong> 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place:<\/strong> Savery 121
Register he<\/a>r<\/a>e<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nIntroduction to R using Rstudio<\/h3>\n
\nThis class will teach you how to get started
\nwith R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The
\ncourse will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good
\nhelp references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for
\nusers who have little or no experience with R.<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Time:<\/strong> 9:30am – 10:30am
Place:<\/strong> Savery 121
Register here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nIntroduction to SPSS<\/h3>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time:<\/strong> 10:30am – 11:30am
Place:<\/strong> Savery 121
Register h<\/a>ere<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nData Manipulation\/Data “Wrangling” in R<\/h3>\n
Date:<\/strong> Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time:<\/strong> 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place:<\/strong> Savery 117
Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\nBasic Graphics in R<\/h3>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Date: Monday, October 21, 2019
Time: 8:30am – 9:30am
Place: Savery 121<\/strong>
Register here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nIntroduction to Python<\/h3>\n
This class will provide you the basics of PYTHON for both gathering data from public sources and providing analyses. <\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> Monday, October 21, 2019
Time:<\/strong> 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Place:<\/strong> Savery 121
Register here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nAgain to register for any of the above workshops follow this link<\/a>:<\/h2>\n
\nHours of Operation<\/h2>\n
Contact Us<\/h3>\n
University of Washington
110 Savery Hall
Box 353345
Seattle, Washington 98195 U.S.A.
(206) 543-8110<\/a> csscr@u.washington.edu<\/a> http:\/\/csscr.washington.edu<\/a><\/p>\n