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Fall 2012 Data @ Berkeley seminars

Noon - 1 pm
Wildavsky Room
2538 Channing Way

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas
September 10 - Monday
Retail Scanner Data

Karin Mac Donald
Monday, September 24
The Statewide Database

Shachar Kariv
Monday, October 1
The XLab

Kevin Koy
Monday, October 8
Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF)

Jon Stiles
Monday, October 22
California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC)

John Wilmoth
Monday, November 19
The Human Mortality Database (HMD)

J. Merrill Shanks
Monday, November 26
Survey Documentation & Analysis (SDA)
2012/11/08 12:40:30
Spring 2012 Research Data Seminars

3:30-4:45 pm
Wildavsky Room
2538 Channing Way

Feb 22 - Thursday
Census Data for Researchers

March 8 - Thursday
Foreclosure Crisis Data Sources"

March 16 - Friday
Data from International Governmental Organizations

Mar 22 - Thursday
GeoPortal/GIS Services

April 18 - Wednesday
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

April 26 - Thursday
Access to Data Collected by the Census Bureau
2012/04/27 10:35:23
CRACKS IN THE PAVEMENT
UCDATA's new director, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, won the prestigious C. Wright Mills award at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, for his recently published book, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods, University of California Press.
2009/10/22 11:30:24
NEW DIRECTOR for THE SRC
We are proud to announce that Dr. Martin Sanchez-Jankowski has been named director of the ISSC and SRC. The units have been merged into a new research unit, with a new name: The Institute for the Study of Social Issues.

We look forward to serving under Dr. Sanchez-Jankowski's leadership!
2009/10/22 11:29:40
Keep your research safe...
Are You Archiving Your Data?

If not... don't click here ...

Keep your research safe by preserving the data with UC DATA.

Read more:
Manage and Share Data
2009/10/01 13:32:02
virtue of adversity
UCDATA's director, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, won the prestigious C. Wright Mills award at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. He won for his recently published book, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilence in Poor Neighborhoods, University of California Press.
2009/10/01 13:30:46
Are you archiving your data?

If not... don't click here ...

Keep your research safe by preserving the data with UC DATA.

Read more:
Manage and Share Data
2009/08/10 16:41:57
UC DATA - Partner in Data Preservation

Keep Your Data Safe.



Keep your research safe and viable by preserving it with UC DATA.

Is your research data important to you? Data preservation documents important data details. Preservation or archival is also required by many funding agencies. And many researchers have found that archival increases the visibility of their research.

Read more:
Manage and Share Data (UK Data Archive)

Data Preparation and Archiving (ICPSR)
2009/08/10 16:36:09
SUMMER PROGRAM - SPACE STILL AVAILABLE
It is not too late to register for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. Openings available!

If you have any questions, Email: (sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu)
or call: 734-763-7400.
2009/05/11 13:59:24
IASSIST 2009
We invite all professionals working in and with information technology, data services and data archiving to Tampere to enjoy the inspiring IASSIST09 conference and the glorious summer light of Finland!
2009/04/28 15:31:31
Summer Internship
This summer, the Center for Urban Ethnography will host advanced training for undergraduates in its summer internship and mentoring program. Get details and apply.
2009/04/20 14:09:22
A "Half-century of Data-based insight"
SRC Director Henry Brady talks to the Berkeleyan about the SRC, and its 50 years of "illuminating American life through the innovative — and often pioneering — use of survey, administrative, and ethnographic information."

Join us in celebrating our 50th Anniversary:

February 12, 2009
1:00pm - 5:30pm
Lipman Room, 8th Floor Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
2009/02/11 08:20:42
FIFTY YEARS OF SURVEY RESEARCH IN CALIFORNIA
A celebration of the University of California Survey Research Center's fiftieth anniversary and fifty years of California Field Poll Surveys.

February 12, 2009
1:00pm - 5:30pm
Lipman Room, 8th Floor Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
2009/01/21 09:35:46
Cracking the Chronic Poverty Code
Dr. Martin Sanchez- Jankowski uncovers the “subculture of scarcity" in the recently published Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods (UC Press). Dr. Sanchez-Jankowski is director of the Center for Urban Ethnography.
2009/01/13 10:12:40
New software facilitates use of medical records for research
Software Protects Patient Privacy: A team of MIT researchers has developed a free and open-source software package to anonymize medical records, facilitating the use of these data for research.
2009/01/13 10:08:34
U.S. Census Bureau releases TIGER Line files in Shapefile format
In March 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau released their own TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Download these files and learn all you need to know about the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system.
2009/01/13 10:08:34
THE HISTORIC ANNA HEAD BUILDING
UC DATA is housed in one of the 1892 buildings of the prestigious private boarding school for girls: The Anna Head School. In 1979, the Anna Head School school became co-educational and is now known as the Head-Royce School in Oakland, California.
2009/01/13 10:08:34
GIS TRAINING ON CAMPUS
Check out the GIS Workshops at the Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF). GIF offers regular workshops for students, faculty, and staff on geospatial tools and applications, including GPS, GIS, remote sensing, webGIS, and more!
2009/01/13 10:08:34
CCRDC Meetings
September 22nd and 23rd, key researchers from the Census and NCHS visited UC Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford University to talk about Non-Public Microdata Resources in the CCRDC. These meetings generated a great deal of interest in the the CCRDC, which provides researchers access to restricted data.

UC DATA extends thanks to the organizations who helped make these meetings a success:
The California Census Research Data Center,
The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health care Markets and Consumer Welfare,
The Center for Health Research,
Health Services and Policy Analysis Program, School of Public Health,
Department of Economics,
The Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER),
The Haas School of Business, and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
2009/01/13 10:08:34
IASSIST08
IASSIST invites you to attend its 34th annual conference. This year's conference, Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation, examines the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle.
2009/01/13 10:04:01
UC DATA Director Named as Campaign Expert
Dr. Henry E. Brady, director of UC DATA, was recently named by UC Berkeley as presidential election expert. Dr. Brady has been interviewed extensively by state and local media - especially about the recent California recall election and the dangers of punch-card balloting - and can address a wide variety of topics relating to political science.
2009/01/13 10:04:01
ON-LINE ESRI TRAINING
GIIFmakes ESRI training available to all UC Berkeley, Faculty, and Staff.
2009/01/13 10:04:01
Polling in the Age of Cell Phones
Survey researchers are wrestling with the issue of how to do telephone surveys in an age where more and more people cannot be reached on traditional landlines. See the Pew Internet & American Life report on Technology & Media Use.
2009/01/13 10:04:01
SDA - Survey Documentation and Analysis
Do data analysis on the web with SDA. SDA is a recognized standard for web-based analysis of survey data. Test drive the real-time on-line analysis tools at the SDA Archive.
2009/01/13 10:04:01
Summer Program in Quantitative Research
The ICPSR 2008 Summer Program offers 2 four-week sessions and many short workshops on quantitative social science research methods. The ICPSR Summer Program is recognized throughout the world as the preeminent forum for basic and advanced training in the methodologies and technologies of social science research.
2009/01/13 09:55:40
SRC Turns 50!
50 Years of High Quality Survey Research

On March 6, 2008, SRC hosted prominent academic survey research leaders in a panel discussion on the future of survey research.

This well-attended event was hosted by SRC as part of the celebration of its 50th Anniversary, in conjunction with a conference of Academic Survey Research Organizations (ASRO).
2009/01/13 09:53:42
California Census Research Data Center
With the U.S. Census Bureau, UC DATA facilitates innovative research while safeguarding confidentiality, by providing researchers with access to non-public Census data at the California Census Research Data Center.
2009/01/13 09:49:49