Software and Data Services Workstation
Data-related Guides and Tutorials
Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS
(Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Location: Reading Room (Main Library, 2nd
Floor, Room 200D)
Time: Monday-Friday from 1:00-4:00pm
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.
ATLAS Statistiscal/GIS Support provides statistics and GIS expertise and an open computer lab where instructors, students, and staff can get help from ATLAS consultants and work with our software.
608 S. Mathews Ave. in Urbana
ATLAS offers statistics & GIS consulting in their lab and demo room. Walk-in consulting
is available from 10am - 4pm (M-Th) and 11am - 2pm (F).
Up to 4 hours of statistics/GIS consultation is available at no charge each semester to instructors, staff, and students in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Statistics/GIS consultation is available for a fee of $60 per hour in 15 minute increments for other members of the Illinois community. Discounts are available for students. Please note: ATLAS will not perform analyses required for coursework or thesis research.
** Statistics, GIS, Survey Consulting space open for fall semester.
http://www.atlas.illinois.edu/services/stats/consulting/
** Training workshops in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and ArcGIS is now open for registration.
http://www.atlas.illinois.edu/services/stats/workshops/registration/
PLEASE NOTE: ATLAS statistics, GIS, and survey consulting services has moved to 608 S. Mathews Ave. in Urbana.
If you have any questions about our services, please send an e-mail to atlas-consult@illinois.edu or stop by and see our new location!
For more information, please visit: ATLAS Statistics and GIS Consulting
Building on the success of the Spring 2008 pilot project, the University Library and ATLAS continue to experiment with ways to collaborate in providing robust support for faculty and students who are using numeric data sets for research and teaching. Projects include Data Services Office Hours, where staff from ATLAS and librarians with a wide range of expertise will work together to provide reference and technical consultation to help users identify and use data.
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.
Comments about this initiative can be directed to Sarah Shreeves or Merinda Hensley, Co-chairs of the ATLAS-Library Collaboration Task Force.
Now available!
A data services workstation is now installed in the Reading Room (200-D Main Library), with
SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS. Members of the Illinois community can log in with their
NetID and password, off-campus users will
need to ask the staff at the
Information Services Desk to request a
Guest
Account on your behalf.
College-specific computer labs may also offer statistical software like SPSS or Stata. Check with individual labs for more information. For instance, the ATLAS labs are open to students in the College of LAS and provide some machines with statistical packages.
FALL 2009 SCHEDULE
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DATES AND LOCATION |
A Library Introduction to GISCurious about how Geographic Information Science (GIS) can enhance your research? Learn about GIS data types like tabular, vector, raster, and geodatabases; and GIS tools such as buffering, overlays, spatial analysis, geocoding, and modeling. GIS is one of the fasting growing research methodologies employed in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Lead Instructor: Karen Hogenboom hogenboo@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314
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Finding and Using Statistics in the Social Sciences
Looking to prove your point? Use official online statistics to support your research. This workshop will explore national and international resources that bring together data supporting researchers in a variety of disciplines. No prior knowledge of statistics or statistical software is required.
Looking for more information on statistics in the social sciences? Lead Instructor: David Griffiths dngriffi@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314
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4 out of 5 Professors Agree: Citing Polls in Your Papers Will Earn You a Better GradeWould you like to enhance your research papers with data from public opinion polls? Learn to use the famous 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.
Lead Instructors: Dawn Owens-Nicholson bluemoon@ad.uiuc.edu and the Data Services Task Force |
Location: Main Library, Room 314
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ICPSR: Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary AnalysisThe 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 and ATLAS.
Lead Instructors: Dawn Owens-Nicholson bluemoon@ad.uiuc.edu and the Data Services Task Force |
Location: Main Library, Room 314
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Rock the Data, Rock the Vote: Finding and Using National Election Survey DataThe 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.
Lead Instructors: Dawn Owens-Nicholson bluemoon@ad.uiuc.edu and the Data Services Task Force |
Location: Main Library, Room 314
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SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a web-based
application that enables users to represent demographic and market research information on a map,
with no programming required! Using SimplyMap's data sets and detailed maps (to the census
block group for some variables), you can develop new insights into the relationships between
consumers, businesses, and their locations.
Lead Instructor: Carissa Holler choller@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314
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Learn where to look and how to find the data you need.
Call Karen Hogenboom, Assistant Government Information Librarian 217-333-2472, email ATLAS at atlas-consult@uiuc.edu, contact Ask a Librarian or ESSL Ask a Librarian, or stop the Data Services Office Hours in the Library.
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Last modified by: Merinda Hensley on 10/23/09