Library Data News
- Census Bureau Releases 2006-2008 ACS data "The U.S. Census Bureau released new American Community Survey (ACS) data today covering the three-year period between 2006 and 2008 on a wide range of socioeconomic, housing and demographic characteristics for communities across the nation, part of an ongoing statistical portrait of America."
- World Bank Launches Data Visualizer Interactive visualizing tool resembling gapminder that uses a subset of the World Development Indicators database. (For full WDI database, see the "International" tab).
- OECD Previews OECD iLibrary "Preliminary Version of the successor of SourceOECD is now available: OECD iLibrary. While not all planned features are available, we think you will find its usability to be much improved. More features, support information and other improvements will be added over the coming months."
- New portal to government data: data.gov New site for locating U.S. data sources. Within catalog, check out the "Raw data", "tools", and "Geodata" tabs.
Welcome!
Research Assistance:
- Need help locating statistics or other numeric data soures? Make an appointment or send questions to:
Katharin Peter, Social Sciences Data Librarian: kpeter@usc.edu
Statistical and GIS Software:
- All PCs in the Leavey Library have SAS, SPSS, and Stata installed. ArcGIS Workstation and Desktop 9.3 is also installed on PCs in the Leavey Commons.
Librarian |
Katharin PeterContact Info:
VKC Library, B40a
213.740.1700
kpeter@usc.edu
Subjects:
Social Sciences Data and Statistics, Social Work, Geography
VKC Library, B40a
213.740.1700
kpeter@usc.edu
Subjects:
Social Sciences Data and Statistics, Social Work, Geography



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