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CSSCR Spring 2018, Number I

From the Director

This is our Spring CSSCR announcement for 2018. Below you will find our listing of workshops for the quarter and some new data sources. We may add a few more courses later in the quarter depending on requests.

We are developing a few new workshops given we have a set of new consultants this year with new programming talents but we will still continue to offer our old standby courses as well.

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.

To enrich our computer center offerings, we have recently finalized a purchase of ATLAS.ti 8, and will be rolling out this software in our labs over the next week.

Finally, if you plan on using the computer labs for Spring quarter or for the Summer quarter make your reservations now! Lab space is filling up; we have some available time still for Spring requests. 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, etc.

--Best wishes, Jerry Herting


Short Course/Workshop Offerings Spring 2018 Quarter (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: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, 2 April 2018
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Place: Savery 117
Register here.

Introduction to GIS

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: Will Brown, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, 5 April 2018
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: Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Friday 6 April 2018
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Place: Savery 117
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: Monday, 9 April 2018
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

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.


Instructor: Stephanie Lee, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, 12 April 2018
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: Galen Kerrick, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, 19 April 2018
Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

Introduction to Qualitative Research and ATLAS.ti

Description:

This course 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 course assumes no prior use of Atlas-ti.


Instructor: Will Brown, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, 23 April 2018
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

Introduction to STATA

Description:

This course will introduce you to the basic Stata statistical package including reading in STATA datasets, basic data manipulation in Stata, and common statistical procedures.


Instructor: Stephanie Lee, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Place: Savery 117
Register here.

Using R for Analyses of Time Series Data

Description:

This class assumes some familiarity with R (at least some basics from prior CSSCR workshops) and will tackle problems of time series data set-up and some basic statistical procedures for analyzing data in this format.


Instructor: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, 14 May 2018
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.

Making Maps with Tableau

Description:

This courses explores the use of Tableau's mapping features. The course requires no prior experience though prior exposure to GIS is helpful.


Instructor: Aya Masilela, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Place: Savery 117
Register here.

Intermediate SPSS

Description:

This courses builds from CSSCR's introductory SPSS classes and includes additional data management topics as well as more statistical procedures.


Instructor: Gabby Gorsky, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Time: 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.

To register for the above classes, follow this link.

Recent and New Data at CSSCR

  • 2012-2016 5-year ACS Summary File estimates for Washington State
  • 2012-2016 5-year ACS Summary File estimates for US
  • 2016 1-year ACS Summary File estimates for Washington State
  • 2016 1-year ACS Summary File estimates for the US
  • 2016 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for Washington State
  • 2016 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for US
  • NEW data
  • 2012-2016 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for Washington State
  • 2012-2016 ACS 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for the US

CSSCR provides complete ACS-SF & ACS-PUMS files in SPSS, STATA, R and SAS formats for Washington State and US. They are accessible through CSSCR's ACS site. Data specialist, Tina Tian, can provide help on using ACS estimates and other census data.

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

Spring Quarter

Consulting and Computers 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.