Editing Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)/Resources

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This list of resources was created in order to support CDSW workshop participants to continue to develop their skills or answer some of the questions that arose during the workshops

== Scraping Data from the Web ==
[https://Helena-lang.org/ Helena-Lang.org] demonstrates how to get data scraped automatically. It requires no programming and has a free Chrome Plug-in. The website has a series of tutorials available here: [http://helena-lang.org/demonstration/ Tutorials]

== Quantitative Data Analysis ==
[https://Tea-lang.org/ Tea-Lang.org] provides a high-level specification of your data and hypothesis, and get back valid statistical test results and explanations. It requires minimal programming and comfort in Python and has a free Python package. 

== Data Visualization ==
[https://altair-viz.github.io/gallery/index.html/ Altair-Viz.github.io] allows you to write a high-level specification about desired visualization and data. The platform allows you to get back data visualization and requires some programming and comfort in Python. The platform has a free Python package.

== Finding a dataset ==

In case you are looking for available datasets for your projects here are some potential leads:
* Do some Google Scholar and normal internet searching for datasets in your research area. You'll probably be surprised at what's available.
* Take a look at datasets available in the [https://dataverse.harvard.edu/ Harvard Dataverse] (a very large collection of social science research data) or one of the other members of the [http://dataverse.org/ Dataverse network].
* Look at the collection of social scientific datasets at [https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ ICPSR at the University of Michigan] (NU is a member). There is an enormous number of very rich datasets.
* Use the [http://scientificdata.isa-explorer.org/index.html ISA Explorer] to find datasets. Keep in mind the large majority of datasets it will search are drawn from the natural sciences.
* The City of Chicago has one of the best [https://data.cityofchicago.org/ data portal sites] of any municipality in the U.S. (and better than many federal agencies). There are also numerous administrative datasets released by other public entities (try searching!) that you might find inspiring.
* [http://fivethirtyeight.com FiveThirtyEight.com] has published a [https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fivethirtyeight/vignettes/fivethirtyeight.html GitHub repository and an R package] with pre-processed and cleaned versions of many of the datasets they use for articles published on their website.