The Library is hosting a Social Sciences Data Fair on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Come learn about the wide variety of social sciences data and software tools available for your research, and discover how to get the most out of them by dropping by one of our trainings and demonstrations. Enter a raffle to win prizes! Refreshments and light lunch will be served. No registration necessary.
Training sessions from vendors in attendance will include:
- Geographic Research, makers of SimplyMap
- QSR International for NVivo Software
- The Roper Center
- Oxford Economics
- ICPSR – Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Schedule of Events
(10 a.m.—4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab and the Hecker Center both on the main level of the Rockefeller Library)
Digital Scholarship Lab: (All day)
Please walk in! Social sciences librarians and some of our vendors will be available all day in the Digital Scholarship Lab to answer questions and provide assistance.
- 10 a.m. Open the doors and introduction by Bruce Boucek
- 3:45 p.m. Raffle drawing for Amazon Gift cards courtesy of Geographic Research, the makers of SimplyMap.
Hecker Center:
- 10:30 a.m. Presentation by QSR International: Introduction to NVivo
- 11:00 a.m. SimplyMap Introduction
- 11:30 a.m. Social Sciences Data at Brown an Introduction (Bruce)
- 12:00 p.m. ICPSR Webinar “Meeting Federal Data Sharing Requirements Now and Into the Future”
- 1:00 p.m. SimplyMap Introduction (afternoon repeat)
- 1:30 p.m. Presentation by QSR International: Introduction to NVivo (afternoon repeat)
- 2:00 p.m. Roper—an introduction
- 2:30 p.m. Oxford Economics webinar: An Introduction to the Tools
- 3:00 p.m. Public-Access Data Sharing at ICPSR: Update on the State of open ICPSR
- 3:45 p.m. Raffle for Amazon Gift cards courtesy of Geographic Research, the makers of SimplyMap. We will be raffling 2 gift cards, one in the amount of $75.00 and the other in the amount of $50.00.
We will have coffee and snacks in the morning and a light lunch at noon.
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 8
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Rockefeller Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab & Hecker Training Center