CSSCR Winter 2018, Number I
From the Director
This is our first CSSCR announcement for the New Year and Winter Quarter! Below you will find our listing of workshops for the first part of the quarter.
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.
Also for Atlas.ti users we will be up-grading our ATALAS-ti to Version 8 sometime during the quarter!
Finally, if you plan on using the computer labs for Winter quarter and especially for this coming Spring make your reservations now! Lab space is filling up; we have some available time for this quarter and Spring requests have begun to come in. 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
Introduction to R with 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: Thursday, 11 January 2018
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
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: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Introduction to using MATLAB
Description:
This course provides a first look at MATLAB, a high-performance language for technical computing. MATLAB integrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use environment.
Instructor: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Place: Savery 121
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: Monday, 22 January 2018
Time: 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Place: Savery 117
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: Monday, 29 January 2018
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to SPSS
Description:
This courses introduces the SPSS 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 1 February 2018
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
To register for the above classes, follow this link.
Recent and New Data at CSSCR
- 2011-2015 5-year ACS Summary File estimates for Washington State
- 2011-2015 5-year ACS Summary File estimates for US
- 2011-2015 5-year ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for Washington State
- 2011-2015 5-year ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for US
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- NEW data
- 2016 1-year ACS Summary File estimates for Washington State
- 2016 1-year ACS Summary File estimates for the US for US
- 2012-2016 ACS 5-year Summary File for Washington State
- 2012-2016 ACS 5-year Summary File for US
- 2016 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for Washington State
- 2016 ACS 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for 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
Winter 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
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.