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About SSDS: Who We Are & What We Do
Consulting and Workshops |
Quantitative and Qualitative Software
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Software Consultants
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Data Extraction Web Interface
(DEWI) |
Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and The Roper Center
for Public Opinion Research |
Data on CD-ROM and Diskette |
SSDS Reference Library |
Computing
and Social Sciences
Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) is a group within the Stanford
University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) that
provides services and support to Stanford faculty, staff and students
in finding and getting social science data and selecting and using quantitative
(statistical) and qualitative analysis software. SSDS staff provide these
services in a variety of ways that include consulting, workshops and help
documentation.
SSDS supports the following resources and services:
Consulting is available via email, by appointment or during scheduled
walk-in hours in The Velma Denning Room,
located in the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) on the first floor of the Green Library Bing Wing. Scheduled walk-in
consultations take place during fall, winter and spring quarters. Users with questions
or who wish to make an
appointment can
contact us.
In addition to consulting and help documents ,
SSDS staff members offer workshops during fall, winter and spring quarters.
Workshops cover ways to locate datasets, discuss how students can plan
during the early stages of their research, or use quantitative software
in their projects, from statistical analysis of large datasets to the
graphical display of summary information. Workshops also demonstrate how
qualitative software options available at Stanford can help researchers
organize and analyze interviews, field notes, photographs, and other types
of data. Vist our workshops page for more detailed information.
Software consultants provide support in the use of the most popular
quantitative (statistical) software, SPSS, Stata and SAS, and qualitative
software, NVivo, ATLAS.ti and SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys. Consultants
provide assistance and information for researchers who are at various
stages in their projects. Some of the most common topics include: choosing
the right software for your research project, getting started with a particular
software package, resources for learning and teaching statistical and
qualitative analysis software, survey design and tips for data entry,
solutions to common software problems, data management, and data reshaping
and conversion.
Users visiting The Velma Denning Room can evaluate a variety of quantitative
and and qualitative software packages, including specialized software
for advanced methods (AMOS), social network analysis (UCINET), multi-level
modeling (HLM) and spatial statistics (ArcGIS and SpaceStat). DBMS/COPY
and Stat/Transfer are available for data converting and formatting between
statistical software packages. Printed SSDS help documents for learning
many of our supported quantitative, qualitative and data conversion software
packages are available in The Velma Denning Room.
Users can also view and download our
guides and help documents
from this Web site.
Software consultants are Stanford doctoral students: Brandy Aven, Yan
Li, Jack Thomas, Patty Seo and Xin Wei.
DEWI is a web-based application for accessing social science numeric
data. It incorporates codebook information, allowing users to browse variables
or search for them by keywords. Variables of interest can be selected,
extracted, and downloaded to your computer in a variety of formats with
popular statistical software. DEWI datasets are selected from the Stanford
University Libraries' collection. Find out more about this unique system
on our DEWI page or connect directly to DEWI at
http://dewi.stanford.edu.
Questions or comments about DEWI? Contact Ron Nakao,
ronbo@stanford.edu,
650-725-1062.
Stanford is a member of these important resources for social science
research. Stanford users can download datasets directly from the
ICPSR Data Archive on any computer in the Stanford University network, or connect off-campus
via Stanford's
proxy server.
Consult our ICPSR page for more information. Theincludes the popular
iPOLL
and JPOLL online databases. Detailed information about Roper and how to request
a Roper dataset is available on our
Roper Center Catalog of Holdings
Roper information
page.
A rich collection of numeric data on CD-ROM and
diskette from U.S. federal offices and agencies, international organizations and
foreign governments include a range of topics and time periods. Users
can access popular CD-ROM programs and data via computer workstations
in The Velma Denning Room. Extraction results are saved on a floppy or
zip disk, writeable CD-ROM or via SecureFX. Browse the CD-ROM cabinets
in The Velma Denning Room or the online catalog Socrates
for full descriptions and titles not installed on the workstations. In
addition, Stanford users can access an archive of
compressed data from our secure site.
Data specialists assist users who wish to access social science data
in electronic format. For general information about the SSDS program or
about Stanford's membership in ICPSR and Roper, contact Ron Nakao,
ronbo@stanford.edu,
650-725-1062.
Software manuals, helpful texts on statistics, codebooks, journals,
magazines, and CD-ROM user documentation are available in The Velma Denning
Room.
For information about computing for the social sciences in general, contact
Pat Box,
pat@stanford.edu,
650-723-9328.
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