CTRL offers various learning and training opportunities for faculty and staff. In addition to scheduled workshops and one-on-one consultations, TLR and the Research Support Group offer downloadable tutorial documents. Please note that some tutorials also require data to be downloaded.

Statistical Software Guides

Excel

• Excel (podcast)
• Excel 2007 I (pdf)
• Excel 2007 II (pdf)
• Excel for Mac (pdf)
  

EViews

• Intro to Eviews (pdf, data)
• Intermediate Eviews
  

GAUSS

• Intro to GAUSS (pdf)

Gretl

• Intro to Gretl (pdf, data)
  

Matlab

• Intro to Matlab (pdf)
  

Python

• Intro to Python (pdf)
• Python Programming (pdf, data)
  

R

• Intro to R (pdf)
  

SPSS

• Intro to SPSS (pdf, data1, data2)
• Intermediate SPSS (pdf, data1, data2)
  
• SPSS Bivariate Statistics (pdf, data)
  
• SPSS Data Management (pdf, data)
• SPSS Regression (pdf, data)
  
• SPSS Syntax (pdf, data)
• Lynda.com now has SPSS tutorials!!!
  

Statcrunch

• Intro to Statacrunch (pdf)
  

Stata

• Intro to Stata (pdf, data)
• Stata Merging (pdf, data 1, data 2)
• Stata Time Series Tutorial (pdf), (data)

Systat

• Systat (pdf)

SAS

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• Intro to SAS (SAS Insight) (pdf, dataset)
  

For more information, please contact the CTRL Lab

Data Visualization

Google Earth

• Google Earth Introduction Tutorial
  

Finding Data

User Guide to the Inter-Library Consortium for Political and Social Research

Qualitative Reasearch

• Introduction to qualitative research methodology, data and analysis
• Introduction to NVivo 9 (data file)
  
• Mixed Method: adding quantitative data to your NVivo project
• Export options for NVivo
  

NVivo 9 Online Tutorial Videos produced by QSR International

• What's new in NVivo 9
  
• Importing sources of data
  
• Organize material into themes with coding
• Work with information about people, places and other cases (classifications and attributes)
  
• Explore your coding with queries
• Visualize your project in models, charts, etc.
• NVivo online help guide