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Nesstar: A Web-based Data Extraction and Analysis System. Richard Pinnell & Sandra Keys, University of Waterloo Libraries. Nesstar – Today’s Agenda. Introduction EDS (UW’s Electronic Data Service) Overview of Nesstar Live Demo Actual Teaching Instances of Nesstar at UW. Overview. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Nesstar: A Web-based Data Extraction and Analysis System
Richard Pinnell & Sandra Keys, University of Waterloo Libraries
Nesstar – Today’s Agenda
Introduction EDS (UW’s Electronic Data Service) Overview of Nesstar
Live Demo Actual Teaching Instances of Nesstar at UW
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Overview
EDS: Electronic Data Service http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/uweds/uweds.html
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Overview (cont’d)
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Overview (cont’d)
Our “Partners” TDR (Tri-University Data Resources)
University of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier (and of course, UW!) Nesstar
SWORDC (SouthWestern Ontario Research Data Centre) Statistics Canada
OCUL (Ontario Council of University Libraries) Data in Ontario Group (DINO) ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure
Initiative)
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Overview (cont’d)
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Overview (cont’d)
Consortia Participation Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR) DMTI Spatial Geoconsortium Etc.
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Overview (cont’d)
Other sources of data on campus Spatial Data Catalog (Faculty of Environmental Studies) Population Health Data Repository ...and we’d love to link to more!
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Nesstar – What it is
Software: a web-based data extraction and analysis system
Over 700 datasets from Statistics Canada …as well as access to other data resources
Dun & Bradstreet International Monetary Fund World Health Organization
Grouped by subject Accessible from off-campus via Proxy Service
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Nesstar – What it is
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Nesstar – What it is
Raw data StatsCan surveys PUMFs (public use microdata files), synthetic files Need to be downloaded to use (statistical software
packages, Excel, etc.)
Low level/topical statistics Census profiles, Topic-based Tabulations Formats: B2020 files, Excel files
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Nesstar – What it is (not)
For high level/summary statistics, use the Statistics Canada website – free for the general public
(http://www.statcan.ca/menu-en.htm) E-STAT (access via EDS page) CANSIM @ CHASS (access via EDS page)
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Nesstar – What it is
Documentation Abstracts Codebooks and Record Layouts Questionnaires Etc.
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Nesstar – What it is
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Nesstar – What it is
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Nesstar – What it is
Metadata Marked up using DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)
Searching Simple Advanced
Searching specific fields Specifying retrieval at dataset or variable level
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Nesstar – What it is
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Nesstar – What it is
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Nesstar – What it is
Subsetting and Downloading Download all or part of a dataset
Statistical Analysis Frequency distribution, weighting, cross-tabulation,
regression, etc. Graphic representations, display of descriptive stats
Exporting Data Various statistical packages (e.g., SPSS, SAS) Spreadsheet (e.g., Excel, .csv) Text file
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Nesstar – What it is
Quirks Browser: compatible with any stable version of IE or
Netscape Pop-up blockers: downloading Password: what/where is it anyway? Searching: “stop” words, phrases, etc.
Help From Nesstar From Guelph (Viewlets – animated tutorials) Contact local data service (e.g., UW EDS)
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Nesstar – What it is
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YES!!!
No!!!
Nesstar – Live Demo
For those viewing this presentation after the conference, we have included screenshots of the main features of the demo at the end of this powerpoint
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Nesstar - Actual Teaching Uses
REC 672 Choose a dataset Familiarize themselves with dataset by going through the
documentation Use the dataset to test the various statistical analysis
topics discussed in class
Economics Research Papers Use data from surveys
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Questions??
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Thank You!
Richard Pinnell ([email protected]) Sandra Keys ([email protected]) EDS Group ([email protected])
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Nesstar – Live Demo Slides
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Library Homepagehttp://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/
Resources for Researchhttp://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/resources/
Connect from Home
UW Electronic Data Servicewww.lib.uwaterloo.ca/uweds/uweds.html
TriUniversity Data Resourceshttp://tdr.tug-libraries.on.ca/
Nesstar Splash Pagenesstar.tdr.uoguelph.ca/webview/index.jsp
Catalogue Resources
Metadata and Variables
Variable Descriptions
Searching for Variables 1
Searching for Variables 2
Variable Search Results
Data Download 1
Data Download 2
Nesstar Logon
Data Download 3
Data Subset
Data Subset: Cases 1
Data Subset: Cases 2
Data Subsetting: Variables
Data Subset: Download
Tabulation
Tabulation: Rows
Tabulation: Columns
Tabulation: Choose Categories 1
Tabulation: Choose Categories 2
Tabulation: Barchart
Subset Icon: Another Option
Nesstar Help: User Guidehttp://nesstar.tdr.uoguelph.ca/webview/hel
p/index.html
Nesstar Help: Viewlet Tutorials
Contact Ushttp://tdr.uoguelph.ca/mail.htm