New Articles on Open Data

World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data

New York Times July 2, 2011

Why Open Data Alone Is Not Enough

Wired July 2011

New ICPSR Data Additions June 2011

24612 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA): Loan Application Register (LAR) and Transmittal Sheet (TS) Raw Data, 2007

20423 Law Enforcement Response to Human Trafficking and the Implications for Victims in the United States, 2005

29801 National Study of Physician Organizations and the Management of Chronic Illness II (NSPO2), 2006-2007

30261 Counts of US Daily Newspapers by City and Political Affiliation,

1869-2004

30862 Drug Use Trajectories: Ethnic/Racial Comparisons, 1998-2002 [United-States]

Question? Contact ICPSR Liaison Barbara Mento

New Roper Dataset: Quality of Health Care

The Roper Center Public Opinion Archives recently released a new dataset of public opinion about the quality of health care including such issues as the value of health care versus cost and the quality of care among local hospitals.

To review an abstract and download data go to:
Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: Quality of Health Care [USICR2011-HEALTH]

Restricted to Boston College community only.

Questions? Contact: Barbara Mento

New McKinsey Research Report: Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity

Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity

"Analyzing large data sets—so called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus as long as the right policies and enablers are in place."

New York Time article about the report

New ICPSR Search Capabilities

View Webinar Describing New ICPSR Search Capabilities



This webinar gives an overview of the new search capabilities available on the ICPSR Web site. The new search contains several improvements, including the ability to better refine search results, and to search through the text of study documentation and variables. The session is presented by Matthew Richardson of ICPSR’s Web team.

Questions? Contact ICPSR liaison Barbara Mento

New Cross-Tabs Feature for Roper iPoll

Cross-tabs are now available in Roper Center iPOLL. iPOLL Databank now offers demographic cross-tabulations for over 50,000 questions asked in the US since 2000. The group data is integrated directly into iPOLL and is presented automatically with the question results wherever available. Look for a blue and green star and click on RoperExplorer!

Also browse the latest Hot Topics:

Defense Spending
Economy
Health Care
Immigration
News Media
Taxes

Questions? Contact Barbara Mento

2011 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

ICPSR offers summer lectures and workshops on a wide variety of topics in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing. Most session are in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but sessions have been added in: Amherst, MA; Bloomington, IN; Chapel Hill, NC; and (for the first time) Berkeley, CA.

For course descriptions, application form, registration instructions, fee structure, and further information about the ICPSR Summer Program are all available on the ICPSR web site: http://icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/

Please feel free to e‑mail ICPSR or myself with any further questions at: sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu
Barbara Mento, ICPSR contact: barbara.mento@bc.edu
Our membership offers a small stipend to support the cost.

Sample courses:

• Time Series Analysis: An Introduction for Social Scientists
• Quantitative Analysis of Crime and Criminal Justice
• Panel Data Analysis Using SAS and SPSS and another on Panel Data Analysis Using Stata
• Mixed Methods: Approaches for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies Chapel Hill, NC)
• Rational Choice Theories of Politics and Society
• Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, I
• Analyzing Developmental Trajectories (Amherst, MA)
• Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction (Amherst, MA)