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Resources for Teaching & Learning Political Analysis
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This page compiles links to resources to help you learn political analysis. From basic principles to advanced techniques, there are many resources available to help motivated students learn how to conduct political science research.
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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