Guest post by Kristi Thompson. Kristi is a Data Librarian in the Academic Data Centre in Leddy Library at the University of Windsor.

The Academic Data Centre is a service in Leddy Library that, as its name implies, provides support for the use of data in research and teaching. This means we help people use statistical software such as SPSS and R, as well as statistical methods. We work quite a bit with both undergraduate and graduate students, helping with everything from class assignments to theses, dissertations and faculty research. We also have been helping GAs / TAs, generally on a walk-in basis if they happen to hear about us. Sometimes this has been very last minute – once we helped a GA figure out some SPSS procedures just hours before she had to give a lab on them!

We want to get the word out so that you will come to us before things reach the disaster-in-progress stage. So, what can the Academic Data Centre do for GAs and TAs? The short answer: everything we do for teaching faculty, researchers and students – and then some.

First off we can help you prepare lab sessions on any of our supported software packages: SPSS, Stata, R, or SAS. While we’re not statisticians, we also help with statistical methods. We can look over your slides and put together course-appropriate teaching datasets. We are also happy to work one-on-one with any of your students who are having trouble with statistics, data or software, so send them over. And don’t forget that we can help you with your own research as well.

Looking forward to meeting and working with as many of you as possible!

Dan Edelstein

Kristi Thompson

The Academic Data Centre consists of Dan Edelstein, Manager and Data Learning Specialist, and Kristi Thompson, Data Librarian.

Email: libdata@uwindsor.ca | Tel.: (519) 253-3000 ext. 4722