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Classroom Resources for Teaching Political Analysis

Classroom Resources for Teaching Political Analysis
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This page curates teaching and learning resources for political analysis, from core concepts to advanced methods and software-based workflows.
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Gary King's Harvard University course web site includes lecture notes and other resources..
Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology Class
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Materials, including slides and code samples, from Dave Armstrong's ICPSR course..
Advanced Regression Analysis
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Web site for book by Jelke Bethlehem, University of Amsterdam..
Applied Survey Methods
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Founded in 1962, encourages the creation of learning environments in which diverse students can learn and excel..
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan
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At the Univ. of Minnesota..
Center for Teaching and Learning
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From UCLA, with links showing how to do such tests using SAS, Stata and SPSS..
Choosing the Correct Statistical Test
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From John McDonald.
Choosing the Right Statistical Test
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An international network with the goal of advancing agent based modeling in the social and ecological sciences, see their YouTube Channel..
CoMSES Net
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A list of packages with methods typically used in official statistics and survey statistics. .
CRAN Task View: Official Statistics & Survey Statistics
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D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS..
Data Driven Documents
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A set of software tools for describing, assessing, and conducting empirical research..
DeclareDesign
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Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and share with students..
Desmos
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from Carnegie Mellon, includes great summary of teaching and learning principles.
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation
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Offers free education on econometrics via videos with many code samples and demonstrations..
Econometrics Academy
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Free plans available for educational use of public data..
Flourish: Data Visualization and Storytelling
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Nathan Yau explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves..
Flowing Data
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Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons - all freely available to the public..
Free Code Camp
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Free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more..
GeoGebra
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From Data and Statistical Services at Princeton University..
Getting Started in Data Analysis using Stata and R
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A free, open source replacement for the proprietary program SPSS..
GNU PSPP Statistics Software
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Helps you search, discover & share charts from top publishers..
Grafiti: Search Engine for Charts
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Agent-based modeling in Python..
Helipad Codex
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A compilation of links to web pages that perform statistical calculations..
Interactive Statistical Pages
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Web site for book by Andrew Martin and Lee Epstein, includes datasets for exercises..
Intro. to Empirical Legal Research
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Materials from Dave Armstrong's two-hour ICPSR workshop..
Introduction to LaTex
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Online book by Thomas Holbrook.
Introduction to Political and Social Data Analysis Using R
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Sage Publishing blog connecting the research methods community..
MethodSpace
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A multi-agent programmable modeling environment. Site contains instructions, examples, see NetLogo Web to run examples online..
NetLogo
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Classroom resources and activities, blog, great for online classes.
Political Science Games
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This web-based app reviews political science terms, great way to fill time before class starts. (From Political Science Data).
Political Science Teaching Assistant
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Aims to help social researchers analyze complex surveys..
Practical Exemplars on the Analysis of Surveys (PEAS)
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An interactive web-based resource for probability distributions..
Probability Distributome Project
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By Kosuke Imai. Resources include R package, datasets, sample code and syllabi..
Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction Texbook Web Site
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Materials from Dave Armstrong's three-day ICPSR course..
R - Learning By Example
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R for Beginners: Packages and Functions for Political Science Analysis.
R For Political Science
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Tutorials, articles, and examples exist to help you learn R and its extensions..
R Studio's Online Learning Resources
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Contains lectures related to statistical techniques and theory. Also contains short screencasts demonstrating SPSS analysis techniques..
RMUoHP Biostatistics Resource Channel
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Don't reinvent the wheel. Find courses that use your preferred software (SPSS, Stata, or R)..
Sample Syllabi for Research Methods Courses
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Great compilation of resources from Kathleen Bratton, LSU Political Science Dept..
Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
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Great set of informative tutorials covering range of tasks.
SPSS Tutorials
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From Khan Academy, adapts to your level and tracks your progress.
Statistics and Probability Course
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Portable online aids for probability and statistics education, technology based instruction and statistical computing..
Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR)
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Consultations, collaborations, and training in support of data science, applied statistics, and scientific computing..
StatLab at University of Virginia
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Makes learning statistics easy through explaining topics in simple, straightforward ways, multiple statistics programs..
Statology
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Dartmouth College site compiles a variety of resources and services to help you make the transition to teaching remotely..
Teach Remotely: How to Teach From Anywhere
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Full text of book by Nick Huntington-Klein.
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
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Sharing concepts, ideas, and codes..
Towards Data Science
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Complete resources for course, taught by Raj Chetty, on how 'big data' can be used to understand and solve important problems..
Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems
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Designed to support women who study political methodology..
Visions in Methodology
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Datasets and sample code for 2012 book by Gerber and Green..
Web Resources for Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation.
Watch & Learn: Channels for Learning Political Analysis