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Free Non-credit Courses Descriptions
Summer 2008
Syntax Isn't As Scary As It Seems
A lot of people know SPSS has a syntax feature, but are intimidated to
use it. In this session, we will work a handful of examples which will
demonstrate that the syntax feature has some very powerful benefits.
In particular, we will look at some recoding and manipulation of
variables, reading in non-SPSS data files, and some repetitive types of
calculations (e.g., running 15 different regressions with minor
changes).
Instructor: Gregg Harbaugh
Date: Thursday, July 10
Time: 11:00am to Noon
Place: Condon 601G
Manage Census Data with SAS
In this lecture, I will present the major data products of the decennial
census (1970, 1980, 1990 & 2000) and American Community Survey (ACS
2005 & ACS 2006). The first part of the class will emphasize different
years of Census products including Census concepts, terminology,
geography as well as the structure and content of the various Census
data files. The second part of the class will focus on using SAS
software to read and manipulate the Census data files.
Instructor: Tina Tian
Date: Wednesday, July 16
Time: 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Place: Condon 601G
Introduction to Atlas.ti
In this lecture, the instructor will introduce some basic features
followed by more in-depth discussion of the program functions as well as
strategies for data management and migration regardless of working as
individuals or as a team, or of working solely on one specific computer
or on multiple work stations.
Instructor: Sheila Huang
Date: Thursday, July 17
Time: Noon to 1:00pm
Place: Condon 601G
Mapping the Seattle Area with ArcGIS
This is an introduction to creating maps with freely available data from
King County, and the City of Seattle. I will provide an introduction to
accessing the Washington State Geospatial Data Archive (WAGDA) and
explain map composition with multiple data sources in ArcMap.
Instructor: Jon Glick
Date: Thursday, July 17
Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Place: Condon 601G
Access Forms and Queries
Action queries, parameter queries, select or crosstab queries, oh my!!
Learn about the many different types of queries and how to create them,
as well as how these queries can interact with your forms and your data
to make your life easier. This class is ideal for people with a basic
understanding of Microsoft Access (tables, forms, queries, reports) but
want to gain more specific knowledge about searching through their data
using queries.
Instructor: Melissa Pico
Date: Friday, July 18
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am
Place: Condon 601G
Analyzing Data with SPSS 16: For Beginners
This course is designed for beginners and as a review for those who have
some experience using SPSS. The course will cover basic data analysis
functions such as frequency tables, comparing means and crosstabs, as
well as creating and editing graphs. We will pay special attention to
selecting variables that will generate manageable frequency and
crosstabs tables.
Instructor: Betty Zou
Date: Tuesday, July 22
Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Place: Condon 601G
Beautiful R Graphics
R is a powerful statistical programming language that renders the
flexibility to customize graphs and illustrations of statistical
analysis as we want.
In this class, we will learn the basic tools of R graphics that will
enable us to generate simple graphs of statistical data as a first step
and then create more complicated and yet creative graphs further on to
present the information of statistical analysis.
Instructor: Yen-Sheng Chiang
Date: Wednesday, July 23
Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Place: Condon 601G
Formatting Your Dissertation or Thesis in Microsoft Word
This lecture will help you format your thesis/dissertation to conform
with the UW Graduate School Style and Policy Manual for Theses and
Dissertations.
Instructor: Dixielynn Gleason
Date: Wednesday, August 6
Time: 8:30am to 9:30am
Place: Condon 601G
Presentations with LaTex Beamer
This class introduces the tricks of creating presentations with LaTex
Beamer.
Using Beamer is different from using the "What you see is What you get"
environment such as Powerpoint, Keynotes or KPresenter. A Beamer
presentation involves typesetting like any other LaTex document: it has
a structure that consists of a preamble and a body. The body is
structured by sections, frames and items, which are put in environments
to compile an output presentation.
The advantage of using Beamer is that it produces a beautiful,
professional quality presentation, with the highest flexibility of
expression to suit your needs. The down side is that the learning curve
is steep.
Instructor: JinYoung Kim
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Place: Condon 601G
Hacking Your Mac for Academic Research
As a Mac User, are you confused by the various academic software titles
on the market? You may have heard of Endnote; however, you may be
intimidated by its relatively unhelpful interface.
Do you use SPSS, or have you heard of Papers? What about Pathfinder?
Proxies? The mind boggles.
Make sense of Academic Mac Software.
This summer, take command of your Mac for academic research! During this
class, we recommend that you bring a Mac Laptop with you. We will have
demonstration software available for you to install and try, and what a
treat this will be! We'll go over the ins and outs of Endnote and Word
(some versions work together, some don't!), and we'll talk about how you
can use Endnote to generate your bibliographies as you write. We'll
introduce you to Pathfinder and show you how easy it can be to get
organized on your Mac (and look great doing it!). We'll also you show
you one of the most exciting new academic software releases so far, the
amazing Papers! This software helps you find, read, and organize
academic .pdfs and will let you search the university databases directly
from within the program. We'll also show you how to import .pdf files
directly from the Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed, and more!
We'll even teach you how to move .pdf files and references between Word,
Endnote and Papers. As an added bonus (for paying attention), we'll show
you the secrets of the javascript bookmarklet that you can drag into
Safari...which will let you access pesky .pdfs right from your browser.
Bring your Mac, and see you on August fifth! Until then, happy
researching from your friends at CSSCR.
Instructor: Tim Pasch
Date: Tuesday, August 5
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Place: Condon 601G |
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