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*Consulting: Finals Week - Summer Quarter - Intersession

During finals, intersession and summer quarter, please contact us with your questions or to arrange an appointment.

*Walk-in consulting (Monday - Thursday) resumes the second week of fall quarter.

Please direct your email to either a data or software consultant by selecting the appropriate button (refer to the information listed below to help you).

* Please note that during the quarter it may take us up to 2 business days to respond to data and software consulting requests.

Contact Data Services

consult-data@lists.stanford.edu

Contact Data Services if you need help with:

  • Finding and getting data for your research
  • data.stanford.edu (Social Science Data Collection)
  • DEWI (Data Extraction Web Interface)
  • ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
  • Questions about the SSDS Social Science Data Archive
  • The Roper Center for Public Opinion
  • SSDS numeric data on CD-ROM and diskette
  • Questions about data sharing (Data Management Plans, metadata, data curating, and archiving).
  • General questions about SSDS resources and services

Data specialists provide support for finding and getting access to local and virtual social science data resources for research and instruction, as well as advice on sharing and archiving your data.

More information about our data services...

Contact Software Services

consult-ssds-software@stanford.edu

Contact Software Services if you need help with:

  • Choosing the right software package to analyze your data
  • Getting started with a quantitative or qualitative software package
  • Survey design and data entry
  • Data management
  • Data reshaping and recoding
  • Data conversion between software packages
  • Problems with data analysis software
  • Resources for learning and teaching statistical or qualitative data analysis software

Software consultants provide support in the use of the most popular quantitative (statistical) software: SPSS, Stata, R, and SAS and qualitative software: NVivo, ATLAS.ti, and Dedoose. Consultants provide assistance and information for researchers who are at various stages in their project.

More information about our software services ...