Would you like to learn how to search for obscure statistics? Is your research leading you down a road where you need to clarify a point using statistics? Did you know that librarians can help you find statistics?! The University Library can help you find what you need!
Data Services Office Hours in the Library
Location: Government Documents Library (Main Library, 2nd Floor, Room 200D)
Time: Wednesdays 1:30-4:30pm
Fall semester 2008
Enhance and expand your research and teaching with data
Need help finding or downloading statistical and spatial data? Stop by the Data Services Office Hours in the University Library. Dawn Owens-Nicholson (Data Archivist, ATLAS) and librarians with a wide range of expertise will be available to help you locate relevant data sets in opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data and prepare them for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
Services offered include: acquiring data sets needed for teaching and research; locating, downloading and preparing data for secondary analysis; identifying and creating course materials and teaching tools (including customized data sets drawn from various data repositories) and consulting about software problems.
If you don't know where to start - why not try a drop-in workshop?
4 out of 5 Professors Agree: Citing Polls in Your Papers Will Earn You a Better Grade
Would you like to enhance your research papers with data from public opinion polls? Learn to use the fabulous Roper iPOLL database which contains nearly half a million public opinion survey questions dating from 1935 to 2008. We will focus on examples using election year topics. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.
Tuesday, October 28th 10-11am
Rock the Data, Rock the Vote: Finding and Using National Election Survey Data
The American National Election Studies (ANES) are a series of national surveys of the American electorate taken in every election year since 1948. This workshop will show you how to create your own tables from the 1948-2004 ANES cumulative file using an online web-based tool. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.
Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary Analysis
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. Learn to search ICPSR's catalog of holdings, download data, and read it into a statistics program (SPSS) to make tables. Our examples will focus on topics suggested by the audience. Some prior experience with SPSS may be helpful, but is not necessary. Jointly sponsored by the University Library ATLAS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.
Location: Foreign Languages Building, Room G8A