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Classifying Courses at Scale: a Text as Data Approach to Understanding Student Course-Taking
(2022-12-01)
This technical report summarizes the training steps for Classifying Courses at Scale, a project that uses machine learning and natural language processing to classify courses from student transcripts into a standardized ...
More than Weight, Less than Driver's License Number: Comparative Sensitivity of Social Media Data and Their Acceptable Use in Research
(2022-06-02)
Social media data offer a rich resource for researchers interested in public health, labor economics, politics, social behaviors, and other topics. However, scale and anonymity mean that researchers often cannot directly ...
Deposit Options to Enhance the FAIR Principles
(2022-06-10)
Research data repositories must adhere to the FAIR Principles to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable as a minimum standard rather than a goal. In addition to making data findable, repositories should ...
Best Practice May Not Be Enough: Variation in Data Citation Using DOIs
(Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology, June 9, 2022, 2022-05-30)
Citing research data with a persistent identifier, e.g., a digital object identifier (DOI), is typically recognized as part of best practice. However, authors do not always use provided DOIs accurately, or for their intended ...
A Primer on Disclosure Risk
(2022-02-16)
In research data, disclosure occurs when an individual study participant is directly or indirectly identified. Data providers and researchers have the legal and ethical responsibility to protect the identity of their study ...
Metadata & Preservation activities at ICPSR to make our data FAIR and TRUSTworthy
(2022-09-21)
Learn about the activities coordinated by the ICPSR Metadata & Preservation unit -- and implemented throughout ICPSR -- that improve the FAIRness (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) of our data and ...
Sweeten the Search: Discover Data for Reuse with a Tool That Links Publications to the Underlying Data
(Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2022)
It can be challenging to find shared social and behavioral health data with the appropriate ingredients for reuse in class assignments or academic research. Help sweeten the data discovery process with a tool that is ...
Tiered Access to Research Data for Secondary Analysis
(2022-04-07)
As the richness of research data for secondary analysis has grown, disclosure risk has also increased. Research data have expanded in their gradation of the risks associated with both re-identification and harm, which has ...