E-mail: dasil@grinnell.edu Phone: (641) 269-9734 Physical Address: ARH 130 Mailing Address: 1226 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112
DASIL: Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab
DASIL provides support for the use of data in classroom exercises, student research, and student and faculty research collaborations. The lab will:
- Locate and prepare data sets for use in class exercises.
- Provide classroom assistance for teaching students how to use an agreed-upon set of software packages, including some suitable for qualitative, quantitative, and spatial analysis, or do student workshops.
- Provide speakers and workshops for faculty on new analytic and theoretical approaches to data analysis.
- Help students with data collection and analysis.
- Help students disseminate e-surveys used in IRB-approved research projects.
- Provide experiential learning for student tutors.
Staff Email Information
- Kathy Kamp, Director, Professor, Anthropology - kamp@grinnell.edu
- Julia Bauder, Data Services, Assistant Professor, Library - bauderj@grinnell.edu
- Bill Francis, Curricular Technologies Specialist - francisb@grinnell.edu
Spring 2013 Schedule
Evening Hours 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | SUNDAY | |
| Megan Schlabaugh (GIS)
Eliza-Eve Lease (Economics, Excel, Nvivo) |
Megan Schlabaugh (GIS)
Eliza-Eve Lease (Economics, Excel, Nvivo) |
Emircan Uysaler (GIS, Computer Programing) Zhujun "April" Cheng (Statistics, Minitab) Derek Farnam (Economics, STAT, Statistics) |
Harry Maher (GIS) Daniel Nellis (Economics, Excel, Statistics)
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Harry Maher (GIS)
Zhujun "April" Cheng (Statistics, Minitab) |
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| Expertise: The expertise of staff members is noted above. Most staff can assist with basic statistics, finding and downloading data, SPSS and Stata. In addition to hours listed above, staff are also available by appointment. | |||||
