Social Science Data and Software (SSDS): Quarterly Workshop Series
by Judy Marsh
It's easy to learn about SSDS data and software resources and services and to meet SSDS data specialists and software consultants. Just register for any of the quarterly workshops at:
In our workshops, we introduce SSDS resources and services in general and cover ways to find and download social science data from key resources available at Stanford. In addition, we introduce and demonstrate a variety of popular quantitative and qualitative software for your research and instructional needs.
Should you have questions about SSDS workshops, contact us at: consult-ssds@lists.stanford.edu Detailed descriptions of our workshops follow.
An Introduction to SSDS
Learn about the variety of data and software resources and services to support research and instruction. In this workshop, we provide a brief demonstration of our most popular quantitative and qualitative software, SPSS and NVivo.
Finding and Getting Social Science Data for Research and Instruction
Learn about popular online data resources available at Stanford: ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research), the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, DEWI (Data Extraction Web Interface), and data on CD-ROM. In this workshop, we demonstrate how to find and download data sets from key online resources.
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.
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.
