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Sessions & Presentations

Please note that all times are EDT and sessions run one hour in duration unless noted.

We will be using GoToWebinar technology to broadcast these sessions. For technical questions on this technology, please visit the GoToWebinar Web site.

For a concise review of the full program, see our At-a-Glance Program (PDF 90K).

Monday, October 5

  • New OR Orientation/OR Role Refresher Course

    Time: 11am-1pm

    This session for new (and not so new) ORs will cover details on the organization of ICPSR and its governance, roles and responsibilities of the OR, where and to whom you can go for help, location and use of the ICPSR Web site, tips and tools for helping your users, and promoting ICPSR on your campus. We will also cover some of the new features of the redesigned ICPSR Web site including the Data-Driven Learning Guides, Online Learning Center, and new research projects, as well as introduce you to some of the ORs that make ICPSR proud. This session is a must for those who are new to ICPSR. Come learn what makes this organization and the data it distributes so great!

    Presenter(s): Libbie Stephenson, UCLA; Rachael Barlow, Trinity College

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  • Best Practices in Documentation

    Time: 1pm-2pm

    This session will provide an overview of the essential components of technical documentation for social science data and will focus on implementing the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard. Topics covered will include the importance of metadata to social science, elements to include in documentation, ways to implement DDI, and how you can help encourage best practice in documentation.

    Presenter(s): Mary Vardigan

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  • Resource Center for Minority Data: "SETS" - Building a "smart archive"

    Time: 2pm-3pm

    This session will cover an alternative method of organizing ICPSR studies, called a SET. The SET tool came out of a collaboration with the Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD), formerly known as MDRC, and the Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) archives. A SET is defined by a group of studies sharing a primary focus. This internal organization tool allows processors to create an ICPSR vetted link among studies that are not part of the same series. We will provide a brief overview the rationale for this tool, review our efforts so far, and discuss our future plans. In addition, we will describe how users benefit from this additional form of organization.

    Presenter(s): Russel Hathaway; David Thomas

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  • Live Chat Session

    Time: 3pm-3:30pm

    Chat live with Mary Vardigan, ICPSR Assistant Director and Director, Collection Delivery, about ICPSR metadata, the Web site, and data delivery.

    Presenter(s): Mary Vardigan

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Tuesday, October 6

  • Highlights of 2009 Website - Web 2.0 Enhancements

    Time: 10:30am-11am

    ICPSR Web managers will be present for a live chat/demo of the newly released ICPSR Web site (a prerecorded orientation will also be available for viewing).

    Presenter(s): Matthew Richardson

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  • Web 2.0 Tools for Visualization

    Time: 11am-12pm

    This session will evaluate popular Web 2.0 data visualization tools typified by Swivel with respect to types of data, potential audiences and problems the tools may solve.

    Presenter(s): Amy West, University of Minnesota

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  • Graphical Displays of Quantitative Information

    Time: 12pm-1pm

    This session will focus on the theoretical concerns and practical issues involved in using visual displays for quantitative information. We will discuss ways to, quite literally, look at your data.

    Presenter(s): Bill Jacoby

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  • Tools that Support Data Analysis

    Time: 1pm-2pm

    ICPSR provides an increasing number of tools that support data analysis. This session will provide an overview of them, including: variable-level searching, the sample characteristics tool, the recode syntax tool, subsetting tools, Quick Tables, the Bibliography of Data-related Literature, and data mapping tools.

    Presenter(s): Robbin Gonzalez; David Thomas

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  • Disclosure Risk Analysis

    Time: 2pm-3pm

    In the past year, all of ICPSR's Collection Development staff have undergone training in identifying and addressing disclosure risk. What does this entail and how are data collections reviewed for disclosure risk? This session will overview disclosure risk training at ICPSR, present examples of disclosure analyses undertaken at ICPSR, and discuss the disclosure review tools that have been developed to assist processors in reviewing data collections for disclosure risks.

    Presenter(s): JoAnne McFarland O'Rourke

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  • Business Meeting

    Time: 3pm-3:30pm

    View the prerecorded presentation and chat live with Myron Gutmann, Director of ICPSR, and Aletha Huston, Chair, ICPSR Council

    Presenter(s): Myron Gutmann; Aletha Huston

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Wednesday, October 7

  • Live Chat Session - Summer Program

    Time: 10:30am-11am

    Chat live with Bill Jacoby, Director, and Dieter Burrell, Assistant Director of the Summer Program

    Presenter(s): Bill Jacoby; Dieter Burrell

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  • Accessing and Working with 2008 American Community Survey (ACS) Data

    Time: 11am-12pm

    This session will provide participants with highlights of the changes to the 2008 ACS, including questionnaire content and data products. Census Bureau staff will demonstrate how to access ACS data through the American FactFinder. The session will include a question and answer period.

    Presenter(s): Cynthia Davis Hollingsworth, Chief, Data Analysis and User Education Branch, American Community Survey Office

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  • ADD-Health

    Time: 12pm-1pm

    In this session, we will describe access to and analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The session will include a description of how to use the new restricted use contract system to acquire the 33 restricted use files and the public use files.

    Presenter(s): Felicia LeClere; Russel Hathaway

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  • American National Election Studies & SETUPS

    Time: 1pm-2pm

    In this session, we will review the 2008 American National Election Study (ANES). Special attention will be paid to the oversampling of African-American and Latino voting populations. We will highlight new questions asked in the 2008 time series study as well as discussing the 2008 SETUPS teaching module created by Charles Prysby and Carmine Scavo. Given new components of the study, we will also review any corrections or errata released up to the session date.

    Presenter(s): David Thomas; Kevin Kapalla

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  • IFSS - Integrated Fertility Survey Series

    Time: 2pm-3pm

    This session will describe progress on a five-year project funded by NICHD to harmonize approximately 50 years of data on the fertility behavior of American women.

    Presenter(s): Felicia LeClere

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  • Live Chat Session - Technology & Preservation at ICPSR

    Time: 3pm-3:30pm

    ICPSR Digital Preservation Officer Nancy McGovern and Technology Director Bryan Beecher run down the latest news in preservation and technology.

    Presenter(s): Bryan Beecher; Nancy McGovern

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Thursday, October 8

  • OR Meetings of the Future

    Time: 10:30am-11am

    What form should future OR Meetings take? Chat live with Linda Detterman.

    Presenter(s): Linda Detterman

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  • Using Data in Teaching (Panel)

    Time: 11am-1pm

    This session aims to give instructors helpful hints for using data in teaching. Panelists will include social science faculty who actively use data-based activities in a wide range of courses. They will give participants a brief overview of what they do with their own students and the effects they see from these exercises, followed by a time for interaction among participants and presenters for sharing questions and ideas. Everything from tips for choosing a dataset or topic to creating and evaluating an exercise is fair game for this session.

    Presenter(s): Jill Bouma, Berea College; Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College; Mary Scheuer Senter, Central Michigan University

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  • Delivering Research Opportunities to Undergraduates (Panel)

    Time: 1pm-2pm

    Discussion of opportunities for undergraduates in social sciences research.

    Presenter(s): Kathy Rowell, Sinclair Community College; Maureen Forrestal, Gettysburg College; Sue Hodge, ICPSR

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  • Tools for bringing data into the classroom: SSDAN, OLC, and TeachingWithData.org

    Time: 2pm-3pm

    This session will provide an orientation to ICPSR-related projects that support quantitative literacy for undergraduates. ICPSR's Online Learning Center, the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN), and a joint venture between ICPSR and SSDAN -- TeachingWithData.org -- will be demonstrated. Each of these projects was created with the objective of making it easier for instructors to use data across the social science curriculum. All stress content as well as statistics and, while there is some overlap in the kinds of activities offered, the three offer different types of instructional tools. We hope instructors will see applications for one, two, or the full complement of these resources within their courses!

    Presenter(s): John P. DeWitt, SSDAN; Lynette Hoelter

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Friday, October 9

  • User Support/Marketing Services Chat

    Time: 10:30am-11am

    Chat live with Arun Mathur about ICPSR user help, utilization, & promotional tools.

    Presenter(s): Arun Mathur

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  • Online Data Analysis Tools

    Time: 11am-12pm

    The objective of this session is to provide participants with hands-on experience to inform them of, or broaden their knowledge of, the chief online data analysis tool used at ICPSR, Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA). Recent features of SDA include corrections to standard errors produced for studies with complex sampling designs. This session will provide an overview of the analysis programs offered by SDA and demonstrate some of the analyses that can be run using SDA, including highlights of the new features.

    Presenter(s): David Metcalf; Mohammad Rahman

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  • Quantitative Literacy: Assessment and Enhancement (Panel)

    Time: 12pm-2pm

    In addition to working on efforts to help instructors more easily bring data into their courses, ICPSR is involved in a project to assess the educational impact of such exercises on students' quantitative literacy (QL) skills. This session will provide a discussion of what QL means, an overview of related student learning outcomes, and examples of assessment techniques. Panelists will include experts on QL and faculty who have designed and implemented assessment strategies to measure QL in their courses.

    Presenter(s): Flora McMartin, Broad-Based Knowledge, LLC; Corrine Taylor, Wellesley College

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  • Online Tools to Access Restricted-use Data

    Time: 2pm-3pm

    This session includes a presentation of Secure Survey Documentation and Analysis (SSDA), which was released at ICPSR in June 2009. SSDA provides methods to analyze data online without access to the underlying microdata, as well as the possibility of setting restrictions on variable inputs (e.g., variables used in combination with each other) and analytic output (e.g., tables with unweighted cell frequencies smaller than 5 are suppressed). While SSDA does not meet every analyst's needs, it provides an avenue for public access to restricted-use data. The session will also include a discussion and demonstration of ICPSR's Restricted Contracting System (RCS), a Web tool that allows data users to apply for contracts and receive restricted use data online. The discussion will include a demonstration of how the contracting system works and what types of steps users will need to take to acquire restricted-use data.

    Presenter(s): Sarah Rush; Kaye Marz; Felicia LeClere

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