Hello! I’m Judy Savageau from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. A recent post from Pei-Pei Lei, my colleague in our Office of Survey Research, introduced some options for statistical programming in R. I wondered whether a basic introduction to statistics might be in order for those contemplating ‘where do …
Data Analysis Basics – Part I by Judy Savageau Read More »
Hi! I’m Laura Sefton, Project Analyst in the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Many AEA365 readers use sophisticated statistical software like SPSS, SAS, or Stata for their data analytic needs, but others don’t have ready access to such software and depend on more freely available options like Microsoft Excel. …
Counting and Computing with Microsoft Excel by Laura Sefton Read More »
We are Lisa Holliday and Olivia Stevenson. We are data architects with The Evaluation Group where we have recently begun to transition to R for data analysis. R is a free program for statistical analysis that is powerful, but can have a steep learning curve if you want to utilize its scripting capabilities. Is R …
Lisa Holliday and Olivia Stevenson on R the Easy Way: Rcmdr Read More »
My name is Spectra Myers, and I am a graduate student at the University of Minnesota’s Organizational Leadership Policy and Development working on a Masters in Evaluation Studies. I have been working closely with a Minneapolis agency addressing homelessness among youth on a service evaluation. The project included fielding a paper survey, data entry and …
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My name is Lisa R. Holliday, and I am a Data Architect with The Evaluation Group. Cleaning data is a large part of my job. For studies that need to match participants’ names or IDs, it is critical to ensure that information is entered consistently from one data collection cycle to the next. However, depending …
2-for1 Week: Lisa R. Holliday on Data Cleaning and Fuzzy Matching Read More »
Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Lead Curator for aea365 and Research Associate at Western Michigan University. As Lead Curator, I am always looking for ways to expand the knowledge of evaluators through hot tips, cool tricks, lessons learned, and rad resources. While working on my dissertation, I made a great find and thought I would …
June Gothberg on Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Software Read More »
My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department. I first started using software with qualitative data analysis back when the main QSR product was called NUD*IST. And I’ll admit – I got …
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My name is Susan Keskinen. I work for Ramsey County (Minnesota) Community Human Services as a Senior Program Evaluator. My evaluation projects are related to employment and supportive services provided to Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) participants, Minnesota’s version of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. I am the Communications Chair for the …
MNEA Week: Susan Keskinen on Qualitative Data Analysis Read More »
I’m Gene Shackman, an applied sociologist in Albany, NY. A project of mine is the website “Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods.” One tool for researchers is data and data analysis. There are many commercial programs, but for small non profits, especially in these poor economic times, the cost of these packages …
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