Spring 2013 Data Services Tutorials announced

  • The Data Services’ Spring 2013 tutorials are now available for registration. For more information on the tutorials being offered please refer to information posted below or the Library Instruction Classes online page. More tutorials will be announced periodically throughout the Spring semester, so check back often.
  • New for Spring 2013: MATLAB introductory tutorials will be offered.  Please see below for more information and registration.
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Data Services Spring 2013 Tutorials:

Statistical Software

SPSS Introduction
An introduction to the SPSS data analysis package. Topics covered include: creating and editing data sets, computing and recoding variables and an introduction to syntax.

SAS Introduction
An introduction to the SAS data analysis package. Topics covered include: creating and editing data sets, computing and recoding variables and an introduction to proc commands.

STATA Introduction
An introduction to the STATA data analysis package. Topics covered include: creating and editing data sets, computing and recoding variables and an introduction to basic commands.

MATLAB Introduction
MATLAB is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. This introductory tutorial will touch upon managing code, files, and data and will show some simple design and problem solving.

Getting Started with HPC
If you work with extremely large data files or wait hours for your quantitative computations to complete, you may be interested in learning about NYU’s High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. Topics covered will include: acquiring accounts, available software, basic Linux, logging into the clusters, storing files, moving files, submitting jobs and monitoring jobs.

Mapping/GIS software

ArcGIS – Introduction
An introduction to GIS map making using the ESRI ARCView software.

ArcGIS – Geocoding
An introduction translating addresses to map coordinates with latitude and longitude using the ESRI ARCView software. Prior experience using ESRI ArcMap required.

Google Earth Introduction
Come learn to play with Google Earth. Find your house, use sketch up 3-D models, and more!

Research Design & Publishing

ATLAS.ti Introduction
An introduction to the qualitative software package Atlas.ti, a versatile workbench for the qualitative analysis of textual, graphical, audio, and video data. An overview of the tools it offers for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to unstructured data will be included.

Survey Software Introduction
An introduction to the creation, collection and analysis of online surveys using Qualtrics.


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