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The ISR Data Archive serves faculty, staff and students who want to use data for classes and research. For more information about our services and collection please click on this link: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da

UCLA’s administrative campus Data Warehouse is called the QDB (Query DataBase). For information on what is included, how to access it, and up-to-date news and information on the many QDB datamarts, go to:http://www.qdb.ucla.edu/As of March 24, 2010, AIS recom...

Some errors have popped up when trying to access models once you upgraded to version 9 of Bi/Query Hummingbird.()()()()Upgraded from 8.x to version 9.0.1, and now when trying to connect to any model getting error: Connection Error – MS ODBC SQL Driver login ...

To clarify the question. It is not clear if the Moodle easily allows the set-up to be changed so that any image (or files uploaded) can be put on another server. We might want to do this for particular types of files, such as movies or audio clips.Yes you ca...

I have come across a wiki and a web site with free resources to use in research, especially quantitative and survey research.The Impoverished Social Scientist’s Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/socsci.shtmlDigita...

As part of our preservation work at the Social Science Data Archive we sometimes have to pull data off of obsolete media, such as floppy and zip disks. To facilitate this we’ve been scavenging and collecting obsolete media equipment. I’m sure we aren’t the onl...

Make a Map is a website that lets you create your own maps of the US and areas thereof using various demographics data. It’s still in beta stage but it’s got all of the US and so far has datasets for median household income, population change 2000-9, populatio...

Here is a list of software and other tools that can be used for data visualization. Feel free to add others and comment on your experience with any of them. http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ – Selected tools Many Eyes – Cf. related article on this tool in...

This is an introduction to those using Linux for data analysis for the first time.It came from a post by UCI colleague Harry Mangalam to UC-CSC Mailing List“As an aid to helping students accomplish the basics on one of our clusters, I’ve written up a doc that ...

Data ManagementMaking a plan for managing data before beginning a research project and then following that plan throughout the research life cycle is essential to ensure usability, preservation, and access to the data. It may also be a funding requirement; man...

Google Drive and Amazon Cloud both provide 5GB of free storage. Google Drive’s pricing options ranges from 25GB – 16 TB costing $2.49 – $749.99 monthly (currently no yearly payment plan available). Amazon Cloud’s pricing options ranges from 20GB – 1000GB (1 TB...

April 2013: Researchers have released the GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone dataset which promises to be an important addition to the social science research community.In a blog post entitled, The Future of Political Science Just Showed Up, Jay U...

Web scraping tools, services, and plugins: a comprehensive listRuby project called Upton – haven’t tried it yet but it’s from the Tumblr blog Onethingwell whose picks tend to be OK.10 Web Scraping Tools to Extract Online Data – added April 2016. Includes use ...

Has anyone tried https://www.statwing.com/ It is free for datasets under 1MB and held for less than 24 hours. It claims to make data analysis very simple to do.Discovered via Internet Scout ReportPlease add your experiences or comments or alternatives here. T...

Hacking the Graph for Better Sourcing and Recruiting on FacebookPlease add other techniques for using Facebook data.

All data used for class projects, theses, disseratations, and publications should be cited in references or bibliographies. Click here for details on how to do it: https://guides.library.ucla.edu/citing/intro

The best place to go on campus is the ISSR Data Archive. For more information on data preparation and preservation click on this link: https://www.library.ucla.edu/social-science-data-archive/about-data-archive

The UCLA Data Archive maintains a collection of public opinion poll data, covering many years and countries. Some of these files come from the Roper Center. Some come from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). To see what is av...