Webinars & Workshops

Webinar Series

I. Introduction to Roper Center Services

This 30-40 minute webinar offers a tour through the various services available through the Roper Center, including the free services and member only services. Coverage includes detailed search strategies for using iPOLL and the Catalog of Dataset holdings and reviews the interactive functionality of the databases. It reviews the various options to obtain crosstabulations using iPOLL, RoperExpress and RoperExplorer—an online data analysis tool that requires no programming! This webinar is open to members as well as non-members.

Register for a Introduction to Roper Services session by clicking a date below:

• Wednesday, May 8, 2013 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
• Wednesday, July 17, 2013 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

II. Using iPOLL

This 30 minute webinar will review the content and functionality of iPOLL, the Roper Center's database of US public opinion questions and answers collected since the 1930s and as recently as last week. We will talk about the nuts and bolts of searching this database and review approaches to generating results for real research questions. The number of participants will be small enough to encourage open microphone participation. Bring your research questions!

Register for a Using iPOLL session by clicking a date below:

• Friday, April 26, 2013 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
• Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
• Friday, May 10, 2013 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

III. Accessing Datasets at the Roper Center

This 30 minute webinar will cover methods of identifying studies to be used to run detailed data analysis and downloading datasets. Using SPSS/PASW and the RoperExplorer online analysis tool, this interactive webinar will run through generating basic crosstabs.

Register for an Accessing Datasets session by clicking a date below:

These Webinars are offered monthly and special arrangements may be made for a custom session for your institution. For more information, contact rcweb@ropercenter.uconn.edu.

Workshop Series for University of Connecticut Faculty and Students

There are no workshops scheduled at the current time. You can monitor this page or http://www.lib.uconn.edu/instruction/workshop/ for future sessions.

If you would like to schedule a workshop for your classroom, please contact the Roper Center at 860.486.4440.

Workshops may be scheduled for any of the following:

• Introduction to Data Handling
• Introduction to SPSS
• Introduction to SAS
• Introduction to Roper Center Public Opinion Data
• Polling 101

Please continue to check this page in for upcoming workshops/webinars or cancellations due to weather.

Roper Center contact:
860.486.4440
rcweb@ropercenter.uconn.edu

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