Data Services
IPSR is a repository for Kansas data and a hub of interdisciplinary policy and social research. Staff are available to assist affiliated faculty and student researchers with locating public data, data collection, data management, data documentation, data visualization, and data dissemination.
Locating Public DataIPSR staff have extensive experience with federal and state data sources. Consultations are available on finding and using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and many other sources.
Data Collection
IPSR has access to Qualtrics, a robust online survey tool, for conducting online surveys. IPSR staff can assist researchers in setting up their own survey or can manage an online survey for sponsored projects.
| Tools to get started
Qualtrics Online web survey platform. Tabula Free tool to liberate data from PDFs. |
Data Management
IPSR staff can offer expertise with complex data management tasks such as data integration, data transformation, data aggregation and reading complex or unstructured data.
Data Documentation
We also can offer consultation on best data documentation practices. IPSR staff have working knowledge of social science metadata standards and can offer help with capturing and structuring data documentation during the research process.
| Tools to get started
Colectica for Excel Free Excel plug-in to document variables and code lists during data creation or re-use. Colectica Robust tool to design, document, and publish data in open data standards. |
Data Visualization
Need maps or graphs for your research publication? IPSR can make your graphs look professional. IPSR staff can also employ GIS to spatially represent your data. Learn more about GIS at IPSR at: http://ipsr.unit.ku.edu/ksdata/GIS/.
| Tools to get started
RAW Free, web-based visualization package. Tableau Desktop data visualization software. Also see: |
Data Dissemination
IPSR can assist with depositing research publications and data in KU ScholarWorks. Staff can also advise on other resources for archiving research data.
| Social Science Data Repositories | Cost | Curation Available | Restricted Data | Size limit |
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| KU ScholarWorks | No cost for KU faculty, staff, and students | Yes - guided self-curation | No | up to 2Gb |
| Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) [Does NOT meet open data requirements of some grant agencies. See openICPSR below.] | No cost as KU is a member institution. Data accepted through application process. | Yes | Yes | No |
| openICPSR | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) | Plans & Pricing | Yes | Yes | No |
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Not sure where to start? Email or call: | |
| Xan Wedel Senior Research Data Engineer xan@ku.edu 864-9111 | |
