Using data
User guides, online learning resources for the use of different kinds of research data and information about taught training courses on working with data.
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Data Library user guides
The following user guides, available at the Data Library and uCreate, the multimedia and specialist IT resource centre of the Main Library, may also be downloaded below in PDF format.
General
- Data Library services and resources
- Data for mapping
- Economic and financial data
- Major social and political surveys in the UK
- Multimedia resources for teaching
IS Skills courses on working with data
Courses on working with data, including Excel, SPSS and ArcGIS .
Internet learning resources
A range of data-related online teaching and learning materials, arranged by subject.
Research data management
Social statistics
Economic and financial data
- Biz/Ed: business studies teaching & education resources
- Biz/Ed: key economic data
- Biz/Ed: time web
- Biz/Ed: virtual worlds
Geospatial data
- Beginners' guide to UK geography
- GEO-REFER: geographical referencing resources for social scientists
- GoGeo: geo-spatial resource tool
- ESRI Virtual Campus
ESRI Virtual Campus provides self-paced web courses in using their GIS software. Many are freely to University of Edinburgh staff and students. In general, courses in the catalogue that do not have a 'live instructor' are available for free 'seats'. To register for a course, email a request to software.services@ed.ac.uk.
Macrodata
Microdata
- Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CSSR): short course programme
- Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data (CHCC) and related materials
- Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS)
- Longitudinal data analysis for social science researchers
- NESSTAR: tool to view contents of major survey datasets at the Data Archive
- PEAS: practical exemplars on the analysis of surveys
- STARS: creation of statistical resources from real datasets
- TRAMMS: teaching resources and materials for social scientists (multilevel modelling)
- UPTAP: understanding population trends & processes
Getting help
This article was published on Feb 15, 2013