Data Science: Recent submissions

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    • DDI Specification: Current Status and Outlook 

      Thomas, Wendy; Gregory, Arofan (2013-04-03)
      An update on current activities and plans from DDI Technical Implementation Committee (TIC) members.

    • Colectica for Excel: Using DDI Lifecycle with Spreadsheets 

      Smith, Dan (2013-04-02)
      Colectica is a suite of modern metadata management software that is used to document statistical datasets, public opinion and survey research methodologies, and data collection. This demonstration will introduce the new ...

    • Applying DDI to a Longitudinal Study of Aging 

      Radler, Barry; Iverson, Jeremy; Smith, Dan (2013-04-02)
      Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) is a large, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study of aging conducted by the University of Wisconsin. MIDUS researchers want to provide a comprehensive, canonical source of documentation ...

    • PANEL: DDI and Metadata from the Researcher's Perspective 

      Thomas, Wendy; Brown, J. Christopher; Nakao, Ron (2013-04-02)
      This was a panel discussion on lifecycle metadata issues from the researcher's perspective. A lot of focus has been placed on how to integrate DDI into large data collection processes in the world of official statistics, ...

    • Panel - Generic Longitudinal Business Process Model 

      Barkow, Ingo; Block, William C.; Greenfield, Jay; Hebing, Marcel; Hoyle, Larry; Thomas, Wendy (2013-04-03)
      This presentation described a model for the processes involved in a longitudinal study. The model was developed at a symposium-style workshop held at Dagstuhl in September of 2011 (http://www.dagstuhl.de/11382). The Generic ...

    • Collaborative Markup of Library and Research Data: Examples from OCUL 

      Leahey, Amber (2013-04-02)
      This presentation will focus on collaborative efforts to capture, store, and disseminate social science survey data & researcher data across all of Ontario's University Libraries. Together through shared platforms and ...

    • DDI-Lifecycle and Colectica at the UCLA Social Science Data Archive 

      Iverson, Jeremy; Stephenson, Elizabeth (2013-04-02)
      The UCLA Social Science Data Archive’s mission is to provide a foundation for social science research involving original data collection or the reuse of publicly available studies. Archive staff and researchers work as ...

    • Welcome to NADDI2013 

      Hoyle, Larry (2013-04-20)
      Welcoming remarks for NADDI 2013

    • REDCap and DDI Exporting Data and Metadata with the API 

      Hoyle, Larry; Van Roekel, Ada (2013-04-03)
      The REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) consortium is a group of over 450 institutions that supports a web application which supports data capture for research studies (see http://project-redcap.org/). The application ...

    • DDI Extensions for Qualitative Data 

      Gregory, Arofan; Hoyle, Larry (2013-04-02)
      DDI's origins lie in structuring metadata for quantitative data, data represented by numbers or by a set of values that can be tabulated. Many researchers though, generate or analyze unstructured data, text documents, ...

    • Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM) 

      Lalor, Thérèse; Vale, Steven; Gregory, Arofan (2013-04-03)
      Across the world statistical organizations undertake similar activities. Each of these activities use and produce similar information (for example all agencies use classifications, create data sets and publish products). ...

    • DataForge: A DDI-Enabled Toolkit for Researchers and Data Managers 

      Gregory, Arofan; Heus, Pascal; Gager, J (2013-04-02)
      Statistical data exist in many different shapes and forms such as proprietary software files (SAS, Stata, SPSS), ASCII text (fixed, CSV, delimited), databases (Microsoft, Oracle, MySql), or spreadsheets (Excel). Such wide ...

    • Michigan Questionnaire Documentation System (MQDS) 

      Cheung, Gina-Qian (2013-04-03)
      The Michigan Questionnaire Documentation System (MQDS) is a powerful tool used to help create questionnaire documentation, with or without summary statistics, and other documentation based on the Blaise data model for a ...

    • Data and Metadata Harmonization for the RAND Survey Meta Data Repository 

      Amin, Alerk (2013-04-17)
      The RAND Survey Meta Data Repository aims to help researchers use data and metadata from the HRS-family of surveys on aging, including studies from the US, UK/Europe and Asia. The project consists of 3 major parts: 1) ...