Accessing SPSS from off-campus

Did you know that UCLA student, faculty and staff members can access SPSS20 through a web browser?  Now you can, from the CLICC Software Shortcuts.  Start here:

http://www.clicc.ucla.edu/tiki-index.php?page=software%20shortcut 

to learn about your system requirements, and then have your UCLA login ready to gain access.  SPSS is one of many applications available.  Matlab, Mathmatica, and MPlus are also offered.

Crowdsourcing good ideas in Research Informatics

Now through Jan. 31 UCLA students, staff and faculty members are invited to share their most innovative ideas for using data to achieve new capabilities.  Help position UCLA as an emerging leader in the field of research informatics and technology over the next decade.   If you have a good idea for using technology to share research data with the world, tell campus leadership about it by entering this contest:

http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e6x02m3fhbze5eqe/a008hbzptq2q/questions

Research informatics refers to the collection, classification, storage, sharing, analysis and interpretation of research data electronically. Read more about it and the contest here:

http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/research-informatics-contest-aims-242718.aspx

Free and open classes on SPSS and Stata

UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education offers a variety of statistical software services, including walk-in and email consulting, web pages on statistical computing, online classes and seminars, periodic live seminars, and statistics books for loan.  Some upcoming classes are:

• Repeated Measures Analysis using Stata, Wednesday, January 30, 9 a.m. to 12 noon in 5628 Math Sciences.

• SPSS Syntax, Part 1, Wednesday, February 13, 9 a.m. to 12 noon in 5628 Math Sciences. 

Learn more about these classes and services provided here:  https://idre.ucla.edu/stats  These classes are FREE