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Data Management Workshops
Need help with creating data documentation or managing your research data? Join us for these upcoming training sessions:
- Managing Collaborations with Collaboration Management Systems, March 6, 10:00-11:30 a.m., Bavaro 306
- Data Documentation and Metadata, March 18, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Bavaro 306
- Intro to Designing and Building Databases, March 27, 10:00-11:30 a.m., Bavaro 306
- Finding and Acquiring Data, April 1, 1:00-2:30 p.m., Bavaro 306
- Preserving and Sharing Data, April 15, 1:00-2:30 p.m., Bavaro 306
Detailed descriptions and links to register for these workshops can be found on the DMConsult Training Sessions webpage.
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Nielsen Marketing Data
 The U.Va. Library has licensed the Nielsen Marketing Data from the Kilts Center for Marketing at Chicago Booth. The institutional subscription includes access to two data sets:
- Consumer Panel Data includes longitudinal data beginning in 2004 with annual updates. These data track a panel of 40,000-60,000 households and their purchases of fast-moving consumer goods from a wide range of retail outlets across the U.S.
- Retail Scanner Data consist of weekly pricing, volume, and store environment information generated by point-of-sale systems from more than 90 participating retail chains across all U.S. markets. Data begin in 2006 with annual updates.
Please contact Summer Durrant, durrant@virginia.edu, to inquire about access. Researchers are encouraged to review the eligibility criteria and terms of use.
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ICPSR Summer Program
 The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research offers lectures and workshops in a wide variety of topics in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing. Many of these courses are presented in two four-week sessions held on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first session runs from June 23-July 18, 2014. The second session runs from July 21-August 15, 2014.
Registration is now open for all 2014 courses. For further information, including a full list of courses, course descriptions, faculty, registration information, fees, and financial support, please visit the ICPSR Summer Program website. U.Va. faculty, staff, and students are eligible for the member institution rate.
Questions? Contact the ICPSR Summer Program at sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu.
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