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Seminar on BIG DATA

Join us as Justin Grimmer from Stanford University and Arthur Spirling from Harvard University discuss Automated Data Collection and Coding on Friday, April 27, 2012 from 9:00AM - Noon in The Commons at Spooner Hall.
File(s): http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/new/SeminarOnBIG_DATA.pdf

LAS792 - Managing Research Data in the Social Sciences

This 2- or 3-credit hour graduate level course offered in the Summer 2012 term is designed to teach the skills necessary to read, reorganize, transform, display, clean,archive, and export simple or complex data. The primary tool used in the class is the SAS system. Structured Query Language (SQL) in both SAS and Microsoft Access receives a strong emphasis.
File(s): http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/new/AboutLAS792Summer2012.pdf

IPSR Staffer Named January Employee of the Month

Xan Wedel was recently named KU's January Employee of the Month.
Link(s): http://www2.ku.edu/~kunews/cgi-bin/meet-the-january-2012-employees-of-the-month

Black scientists less likely than white counterparts to receive NIH funding

Black scientists were significantly less likely than their white counterparts to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to an analysis of data from 2000 to 2006.

University of Kansas Professor of Economics Donna Ginther was the lead author on the study commissioned by the NIH, which appears in the Aug. 19 issue of Science.
Link(s): http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/august/18/nihstudy.shtml
             http://www.sciencemag.org/hottopics/race-nihfunding/
File(s): https://documents.ku.edu/users2/hattig/ginther/Ginther_draft01-LAN.mov

2010 Data Profiles now available for all Kansas Counties and Cities

The Institute for Policy & Social Research now has two profiles containing 2010 Census available on our website for the State of Kansas, Kansas Counties, and Kansas cities. The Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 (DP1) is a one-page summary of population by age, race, Hispanic origin, along with households by type, occupancy, and tenure. The DP1 profile is comparable to the same profile from the 2000 Census. The Summary File 1 Profile is a 57-page profile detailing the population by age, race, and Hispanic origin. This profile is similar to the same profile from 2000. This profile was made possible by SAS Code developed by the national State Data Center (SDC) network.
Link(s): http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/county.shtml
             http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/city.shtml