Upcoming October Data Services Classes

SHU Data Services Libraries is happy to announce that it will be hosting Data Services classes throughout the fall semester. Students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend the workshops. Please see below the schedule for the month of October, or access the full fall calendar here.

October 5th, 2021, from 10:00-10:45 am: StoryMaps in ArcGIS

October 5th, 2021, from 12:00-1:30 pm: Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 – Humanitarian Mapping with Open Cities Latin America

*Please note: this workshop will be taken place virtually & in person on the South Orange Campus

October 6th, 2021, from 10:30-11:15 am: Coding in Qualitative Research

October 27th, 2021, from 10:00-10:45 am: Introduction to STATA

October 28th, 2021, from 2:00-2:45 pm: Find Data For Your Research in ICPSR

To sign up, click on the link and then click “begin registration” which is located in the bottom left of the webpage. Fill out the registration form and a sign-up confirmation email will be sent to you. For any questions, please reach out to SHU Data Services at data.services@shu.edu. Students, faculty, and staff with workshop suggestions are encouraged to reach out to Data Services.

Data Services Group

University Libraries launched its Data Services Group in Fall 2019. Librarians and a Data Support Specialist are available to provide training in data management, specific tools like Stata, SPSS and R, Survey Research Methods for Qualtrics and Data Management for Seton Hall University students, faculty, staff, and administrators. For further information, please view the Data Services website. Part of the Data Service mission is to provide access to data sources including ICPSR.

Please Join Us at the ICPSR Biennial Meeting

Seton Hall University libraries is a part of The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), an organization of members from various institutions that work together to: acquire and preserve social science data, to provide open and equitable access to these data, and to promote effective data use. This year ICPSR will be hosting their Biennial Meeting, a fully virtual event, open to the public, and free.

The event will take place from October 6-8, 2021, with presentations happening between 10 am ET and 5pm ET. We strongly suggest that our students, faulty, and staff attend. You can register here.

This year’s meeting is themed “Data Positivity: Data Doing Good” and will focus on ICPSR’s mission to further advance the discipline of science through training and information-sharing in the areas of data curation and data management, research and classroom data resources, and data education opportunities to help data-driven individuals “do good” by using the best and latest quantitative methods. 

**Please note: Samah Alshrief, Data Coordinator for University Libraries, will be presenting on Wednesday, Oct 6 at 1 pm EST about Data Ethics and how to manage missing data.

Schedule of Events:

Tuesday, October 5:
Attendee Orientation and informal happy hour

Wednesday, October 6:
10:30am: Virtual coffee and networking
11am: ICPSR Data Showcase
12pm: ICPSR Project Lightning Talks
*1pm: Research Data Ethics, presented by Seton Hall
2pm: From Dataset Detection to Instructional Resources: What’s New with the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature
3pm: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at ICPSR
4:30pm: ICPSR Awards

Thursday, October 7:
10:30am: Virtual coffee and networking – Book Club Edition
11am: Data Doing Good at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
12pm: State of the Consortium
2pm: OR/DR Boot Camp! Fundamentals and the Evolution of the Official and Designated Representative Role
4pm: Data Access
10:30am: Virtual coffee and networking – Book Club Edition
11am: Data Doing Good at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
12pm: State of the Consortium
2pm: OR/DR Boot Camp! Fundamentals and the Evolution of the Official and Designated Representative Role
4pm: Data Access

Friday, October 8:
10:30am: Virtual coffee and networking – DEI Edition
11am: ICPSR Curation: The who, what, where, why and how of curating data at ICPSR
12pm: Virtual Booths – ICPSR Projects
1pm: New Virtual Data Resources: Restricted Data, GIS, and Election Data for use in the classroom and more
2pm: Data Brunch Live! Extremism in Social Media
3:30pm: Closing Session

Access the full schedule with brief synopses here.

Resources:

ICPSR additionally offers excellent resources for instructors who are teaching and students who are learning about data. Please additionally see these resources:

How to Read a Journal Article
A Guide to Interpreting SPSS Output
Citing Data
Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans