Research Data Services

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Research Data Services (RDS) is IT Services' support for statistical software and research databases. RDS was created to assist the academic community with their data needs. Ling Ting is responsible for routine operation of RDS under the direction of Dan Puckett of the Academic, Research and Client Services division of ITS. Routine operation includes providing technical support for all statistical software under site license and teaching non-credit training workshops in the use of most of these applications.

Research Data Services provides the following to assist with your data needs:

Identifying, searching, and obtaining data that best suits your research needs;
Assisting with sub-setting data and saving the data into the data format that suits the analyses you would like to do;
Helping you to decide what statistical software are best suited to your research needs;
Helping with data for class projects;
Working with classroom or small group presentations on any of the above;
Presenting workshops for popular statistical software;
Assisting with Snap Survey Software.

RDS is affiliated with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). ICPSR houses the largest collection of social sciences data in the world. ICPSR Direct is available for providing direct access to the ICPSR data holdings for all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Users can access the ICPSR holdings via ICPSR Direct. A user can also view holding codebooks locally.

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In addition, our staff will provide assistance to help you identify data files for your research needs and help you to access and use data from the ICPSR and from other data resources. For no charge, RDS will provide support and reference to electronic data and data management. Additional assistance for obtaining subsets of data, data management (including data storage strategies), and data migration/conversion procedures are also available.

Faculty and students requiring assistance with research design and statistical analysis can also contact the Center of Statistical Consulting operated by the Department of Mathematical Sciences Statistics Division.

For any questions regarding statistical software support and/or services provided by Research Data Services, please contact Dan Puckett (danp@uark.edu) or Ling Ting (ting@uark.edu).

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