Compustat University March eLearning Schedule Tuesday March 23, 2010

CD200 Compustat North American Data

Maximize the Potential builds on CD101 Why Compustat Data and was designed to help provide answers to your most common questions about data collection and restatement procedures. Learn how to effectively incorporate Compustat Footnotes and Analyst Notes into your data analysis.

Register to attend the next webinar, Tuesday, March 23rd.

You can also register for CD101 Why Compustat Data class on
Monday, March 22nd.

ICPSR: Introduction to NACDA: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, February 23, 2010

This ICPSR webinar is a demonstration of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) located within ICPSR. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, NACDA acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST


Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
Register

System Requirements:
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

Questions? Contact: Barbara Mento: barbara.mento@bc.edu, ICPSR representative.

Compustat North America Data - Maximize the Potential

From Compustat University

This webinar builds on the existing "Why Compustat Data" Class and has been designed to help provide answers to your questions about Compustat North American Data collection and Restatement procedures. In addition, this class will teach you how to effectively incorporate Compustat Footnotes and Analyst Notes into your data analysis. Sign up for the first session on February 25th.

Locating and Using Data for Secondary Research 12:00 - 1:30 Feb 4

Boston College offers many sources and repositories of data for secondary research in the social sciences, education, nursing, economics, business and other disciplines. This workshop is particularly geared to researchers who need to access, analyze and manipulate data from BC's subscription data repositories. This tutorial will help you: find the data you need for your research or class project; learn about the Boston College collection of data resources in the Statistical Data Catalog; and how to download the data onto your desktop, including how to import into quantitative analytical tools such as SPSS. Get a tour of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a data archive that includes over 5,000 datasets. We will also discuss the library’s guides to key Business, Economics, Education, Health, and General U.S. and cross-national data sources. Topics may be customized based on attendees’ research interests. Please contact datasupport@bc.edu for more information.

Feb 4, 2010 12:00 - 1:30 pm O’Neill 307

Introduction to ArcGIS 3:30 - 5:00 January 29, 2010

Introduction to ArcGIS
January 29, 2010,
3:30 - 5:00 pm
O'Neill 245




Learn how to map data in a hands-on Geographic Information Systems Workshop.

Data mapping is a tool to analyze your data and quickly recognize patterns and trends.


Registration email with name of workshop: researchservices@bc.edu

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping at Boston College Contest

BC students are invited to present their GIS Mapping work as part of a campus-wide celebration of geospatial research at Boston College. Prizes will be awarded to the top student entries which will be displayed in the O’Neill Library lobby on March 10th, 2010.


Contest guidelines: Posters will be evaluated on both content and design. To enter the contest, please submit a PowerPoint slide. For full Contest Details including content criteria and format for submissions click on Geographic Information Systems Library Contest Flyer.

First Prize: $100.00 Amazon gift card
Second Prize: GIS T-Shirt

Submit entries to: mento.bcgiscontest@bc.edu by February 19th, 2010
Any questions? Contact Barbara Mento, Data/GIS Manager: barbara.mento@bc.edu
Sponsored by Boston College Libraries

New WRDS data: OptionMetrics and Audit Analytics

With your WRDS account you can now access the follow data for the next year:

OptionMetrics

OptionMetrics, by Ivy DB, is a data set of historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets. Variables include historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and option sensitivities.It is available via a WRDS account. Data coverage starts in 1996.

Audit Analytics expanded coverage:

Benefit Plan Opinions, Audit Analytics Company Block, Audit Comment Letters, Audit Comment Letters Conversations, Audit Director and Officer Changes, Audit Legal Case and Legal Parties, Audit Non-reliance Restatements.

Access to both of these data sets are for ONE year only.