[ICPSR] ICPSR DataBytes Inside! -- Winter 2020
Linda Detterman
lindamd at umich.edu
Wed Feb 19 12:29:44 EST 2020
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*In This Issue*
- ICPSR’s Winter Byte <#m_-8936408260255198564_a01>
- The 2020 Summer Program is Heating Up <#m_-8936408260255198564_a02>
- Why Not Teach this Summer? <#m_-8936408260255198564_a03>
- Data Services–Learn to Deliver this Summer!
<#m_-8936408260255198564_a04>
- ICPSR Loves Data! <#m_-8936408260255198564_a05>
- Love Big Data? You’ll Love this Workshop! <#m_-8936408260255198564_a06>
- Wintertime Project News: NSF selects AERA and ICPSR to create new STEM
Research Data Hub <#m_-8936408260255198564_a07>
- Warm up with a Great Webinar - The Midlife in the United States
(MIDUS) Study <#m_-8936408260255198564_a08>
- New Council Members join ICPSR in March <#m_-8936408260255198564_a09>
- The ICPSR Bulletin–A Blizzard of Information
<#m_-8936408260255198564_a10>
- FY2021 Invoices Coming Soon <#m_-8936408260255198564_a11>
- It’s Always Summer in the ICPSR Physical Data Enclave!
<#m_-8936408260255198564_a12>
- A Final Forecast for Winter 2020 – Great Weather Predicted for the
Data Fair! Save the Date for the ICPSR Data Fair!
<#m_-8936408260255198564_a13>
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[image: ICPSR DataBytes] ICPSR’s Winter Byte
It’s sunny and cold with a low of 12 degrees Fahrenheit (-11 Celsius)
predicted this week in Ann Arbor! Why not warm up with ICPSR’s winter
edition of DataBytes?
The 2020 Summer Program is Heating Up
Registration for the 2020 Summer Program
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/registration.html> is
open. The four-week courses run June 22-July 17 and July 20-August 14. And,
numerous three- to five-day workshops beginning in May are also in the
mix! Scholarship
applications
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/scholarships/index.html>
are due March 31.
Why Not Teach this Summer?
Teaching assistants are an essential part of the Summer Program’s four-week
session instructional staff. These individuals serve a vital role by
assisting workshop instructors, grading assignments, and providing guidance
and understanding to our participants. To view the job summary,
qualifications, application materials, and to apply, please refer to
the posting
on the University of Michigan careers website
<https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/184409/icpsr_summer_program_teaching_assistant>
.
Data Services–Learn to Deliver this Summer!
This five-day workshop starting August 10 and delivered by ICPSR Official
Representatives (ORs), is being offered to individuals who manage or
support local services for ICPSR and other research data for quantitative
analysis. This workshop, titled, “Providing Social Science Data Services:
Strategies for Design and Operation,” is organized around four data service
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0041> areas:
collections; users; access; and preservation.
ICPSR Loves Data!
Love Data Week
<https://cms.icpsr.umich.edu/love-data-week-2020-international-events> — an
international event, took place February 10-14, to raise awareness and
build a community to engage on topics related to research data management,
sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.
Thanks to everyone who participated in Love Data Week 2020! Take a look at
the ICPSR Love Data Week 2020 playlist on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqC9lrhW1VvZWgsMaJV4AsLMLtjtsmDE8> to
see all the webinars and videos, and visit the Adopt a Dataset Wall of Honor
<http://bit.ly/2GqFztZ> to see the *51 datasets adopted* this year!
Love Big Data? You’ll Love this Workshop!
Joining the Data Revolution: Big Data in Education and Social Science
Research <https://iris.isr.umich.edu/training/>: Join IRIS (Institute for
Research on Innovation & Science) June 15-19 in Ann Arbor for a week-long
workshop on how to leverage big data resources and tools to advance your
education and social science (ESS) research.
Wintertime Project News: NSF selects AERA and ICPSR to create new STEM
Research Data Hub
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and ICPSR have joined
forces to create a research data hub to connect, educate, and build a
community around STEM education data resources. The new Data Resource Hub –
PEERS <https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/about/cms/2237> - is a
web-based platform that will include wide-ranging forms of data and data
resources and foster new networks of research collaboration and
communication in STEM education.
Warm up with a Great Webinar - The Midlife in the United States (MIDUS)
Study
MIDUS is a U.S. national, longitudinal study which focuses on the role of
psychological, social, and biological factors in accounting for age-related
variations in health and well-being among two national samples of
Americans. Join us for a webinar on March 10 at 2pm to learn about
accessing and using the MIDUS Data. Register here: http://myumi.ch/dOWB5
New Council Members join ICPSR in March
ICPSR’s Official Representatives (ORs) approved the Council
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/about/governance/council.html>
slate presented to them during the 2019 ICPSR Biennial Meeting. New members
include: Dave Armstrong, Western University; James Doiron, University of
Alberta; Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mark
Hansen, Columbia University; Trevon Logan, Ohio State University; and Ken
Smith, University of Utah. In addition, Lisa Cook, Michigan State
University, will take the gavel as Council Chair.
The ICPSR Bulletin–A Blizzard of Information
The most recent ICPSR Bulletin
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/about/cms/2019> provides a flurry of
news on the 2019 ICPSR Biennial Meeting, ICPSR’s certification as a trusted
repository, new data projects, and much more.
FY2021 Invoices Coming Soon
Membership fees
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/join.html> for the
period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, will be mailed in April. To find
your FY2021 classification, scroll to Annual Dues, select “find your FY2021
category,” and note your associated fees.
It’s Always Summer in the ICPSR Physical Data Enclave!
ICPSR holds over 1,600 restricted-use datasets
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/search/studies?start=0&ARCHIVE=ICPSR&PUBLISH_STATUS=PUBLISHED&RESTRICTED_DATA_TYPE=Restricted%20Use&sort=score%20desc%2CTITLE_SORT%20asc&rows=50&q=>.
A number of these data require use while onsite at ICPSR and where it feels
like you are conducting analysis while on Michigan’s shoreline! ICPSR
welcomes deposit and sharing <https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/deposit/>
of restricted-use data; in fact, ICPSR just secured a relationship for
remote access to French and German confidential microdata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SizDiWB_608&t=68s>.
A Final Forecast for Winter 2020 – Great Weather Predicted for the Data
Fair! *Save the Date for the ICPSR Data Fair*!
This virtual biennial conference will take place September 21-25, 2020. The
ICPSR Data Fair is for anyone interested in data. The Data Fair is
completely online, open to the public, and all workshops are free. Learn
more about the Data Fair by revisiting the 2018 Data Fair, "Data: Powered
By You" <https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/datafair/>.
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