Consulting: Workshops

Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) staff members are offering three workshops during spring quarter that cover our data and software resources and services in general, and  introduce and demonstrate the most  popular quantitative (statistical) and qualitative software available at Stanford.  Sessions take place in room 121A, located in the Social Sciences Resource Center on the first floor of the Green Library Bing Wing.  Light refreshments will be provided. Interested faculty, staff and students can register via email to: consult-ssds@lists.stanford.edu. 

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Introduction to Social Science Data and Software (SSDS)
Learn about the variety of SSDS data and software resources and services available at Stanford for research and instruction.  SSDS staff will provide brief demos of quantitative (statistical) and qualitative software, SPSS and NVivo.
Wednesday, April 16, noon-1pm
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Choosing Quantitative Software for Social Science Research
There are many software choices available to researchers who want to analyze numeric data.  Which program is
right for beginners?  Which program has the best graphing capabilities?  Can you use more than one statistical
package on a single project?  In this workshop, we introduce and demonstrate three of the most popular statistical
software packages: SPSS, Stata and SAS.
Wednesday, April 23, noon 1:00pm
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Choosing Software for Qualitative Research
Many research projects involve the use of unstructured data such as interviews, text, audio or video.  In this workshop, we introduce and demonstrate three of the most popular qualitative software packages: NVivo, ATLAS.ti, and
SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys.
Wednesday, April 30, noon 1:00pm

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