Remote Exploration of Social Explorer

Date
May 28, 2020, 3:00 pm3:30 pm
Location
Virtual

Details

Event Description

Presented by Ofira Schwartz, Social Sciences Data and Sociology Librarian, and Courtney Conrad, Data and Statistics Consultant, Data and Statistical Services

Join Ofira Schwartz and Courtney Conrad for a brief introduction to Social Explorer and analytical methods that could be used to explore datasets.

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States from 1790 to the present and is frequently used by researchers at Princeton University. This webinar will demonstrate how Social Explorer could be used at different research stages, from developing a research question through empirical analysis and results. Ofira will provide an overview of Social Explorer and demonstrate how to extract data. Courtney will demonstrate various ways to analyze the extracted data graphically and statistically using the statistical software package, Stata.

Co-sponsored by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. This event is part of the Virtual Research Resources Series

A Zoom link will be shared after registration.

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Sponsor
McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

Accessibility

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