Gov2001 January 2011

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by Gary King

Be sure to check back occasionally with the annotations after you've seen the videos. we're commenting on some of the comments and questions. there are even some requests in there for specific people! Gary -- *Gary King* - Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor - Director, IQSS - Harvard University GKing.Harvard.edu <http://gking.harvard.edu/> - King(a)Harvard.edu - @kinggary<http://twitter.com/kinggary>- 617-500-7570 - Asst 495-9271 - Fax 812-8581 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

Important Email About Access

by Brandon Stewart

If you do not have access to one or more tools, please send me an email (not to the whole list, just to me - i.e. don't just hit reply) with the list of tools that you don't have access to, your harvard email (or official email that you gave to Harvard when you registered), and your XID/Harvard ID if you have one. If you don't have an XID/Harvard ID, please tell me that explicitly and we will have to work on getting you one. Thanks everyone. If you could do this today, I would greatly appreciate it so we can start resolving the stray access issues. Brandon _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

final paper topic interest in long term care?

by Portia Cornell

Hey folks, I would like to know if there are other students in the class who share my research interests. If you have a 90%+ chance of taking the class and might potentially be interested in doing the final paper on some aspect of long term care (access, financing, insurance, or quality); or using data from Medicare, Medicaid, Health and Retirement Study, or MEPS (or other U.S. health data sets I may not have thought of!)--holla back! I won't infer any commitment, I just to know right away if it's going to be difficult to find a co-author with similar aims, since I want to invest the time and energy into a topic that might beget future projects, or at least get some experience working with data that I may encounter again. You may respond just to me at portia.cornell(a)gmail.com and not the whole group. Cheers, Portia Cornell PhD Health Policy, G1 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

lecture questions, reading, and problem set

by Molly Roberts

Hi all -- The lecture questions for the second lecture are up on the main page of the Course Website, and are titled "Lecture 2 Quiz". By Sunday at 8AM, you should watch the last 10 minutes of Lecture 1 and Lecture 2 online with the video annotation tool, and answer these short questions. To access the video annotation tool, go to "Lecture Video Annotation" on the course website. The last 10 minutes of Lecture 1 are the last 10 minutes of the video "Spring 2010 Lecture 01-2" (start at minute 38:00). For Lecture 2, the two videos you should watch are "Spring 2010 Lecture 02-1" and "Spring 2010 Lecture 02-2". The slides that go with the lectures are under "Lecture Notes" and are called "the basics" and "Theories of Inference". (Download both sets of slides "to print".) The slides for the last 10 minutes of Lecture 1 start with "The Birthday Problem" slide (pg 30) in "the basics". Then Lecture 2 starts with "What is a Probability Density?" slide (pg 33) in "the basics" and continues in the "Theories of Inference" slides. As a reminder, the reading for this week is UPM Chapters 1-3. If you have time, you should also read "Publication, Publication", but the most important is the reading in UPM. The problem set has been posted on the course website. It is due Wednesday, February 2nd at 7PM. Last, I have office hours tomorrow from 10AM-12PM in the HMDC Computer Lab in the basement of CGIS Knafel. Hope you all are enjoying the snow! Best, Molly _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

Lecture Videos

by Brandon Stewart

Gov 2001 Students, We wanted to send out some information on the videos. First- the questions can be a little hard to hear in some of the videos so we typed up transcripts of all the questions in the lecture video. Because some people can't see the Video Annotation Page yet, we have placed the transcript under the Lecture Notes section of the course website. Second- if you can't get access to the video annotation tool you can watch all the lectures from last year here: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k66011&pageid=icb.page326371&p… Note: we would really prefer you watch them in the video annotation tool if its available to you because we want you to annotate where you have questions! We are working on resolving the access issue as quickly as possible. Brandon _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

section room moved

by Molly Roberts

Hi Class, We'll be having section tonight in Room K262 because it is a little bigger. As a reminder, section is from 7-8:30PM tonight. Best, Molly _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

Fwd: IQSS Statistical Software Workshops

by Brandon Stewart

Newcomers to R might appreciate the opportunity to hear about R from someone other than Molly and myself. It looks IQSS will be giving a series of workshops this semester that you can go to. Brandon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thom Wall <twall(a)gov.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:42 PM Subject: IQSS Statistical Software Workshops To: grads(a)lists.gov.harvard.edu The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) offers workshops in R, Stata and SAS for current Harvard and MIT affiliates. Our goal is to help users understand statistical concepts and analyze data using statistical software available at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Harvard MIT Data Center. Starting in the Spring of 2011, we are we our expanding our core workshop offerings with a new series of workshops in the statistical software package, R. Unless otherwise noted, all classes are held on Friday mornings in CGIS Knafel Building, Room K018. To enroll in any of these classes, please contact Alicia Doyle Lynch at dataclass(a)help.hmdc.harvard.edu <mailto:dataclass@help.hmdc.harvard.edu>. Please note that Introduction to Numeric Data Resources and Introduction to Stata are typically taken together but you can sign up for one or the other. Similarly, Regression in Stata and Graphics in Stata are offered back-to-back but can be taken separately. We are also pleased to announce our new series of statistical training workshops using the software program, R. There are three courses in the series: Introduction to R, Statistics and R, and R Programming. You may sign up for one, two or all three workshops. *The R Series* The R Series 1: Introduction to R: Fri, 2/4: 9am-Noon Fri, 3/25: 10am-1pm The R Series 2: Statistics and R **NEW COURSE**: Fri, 4/1: 9am-Noon The R Series 3: R Programming **NEW COURSE**: Fri, 4/15: 9am-Noon *Workshops in Stata and SAS* Introduction to Numeric Data Resources: Fri, 2/11: 9-10am Fri, 3/11: 9-10am Fri, 3/25: 9-10am Introduction to Stata: Fri, 2/11: 9-Noon Fri, 3/11: 9-Noon Data Management in Stata: Fri, 2/18: 9am-Noon Fri, 4/8: 9am-Noon Regression in Stata: Fri, 2/25: 9-11am Fri, 4/29: 9-11am Graphics in Stata: Fri, 2/25: 11am-1pm Fri, 4/29: 11am-1pm Introduction to SAS: Fri, 3/4: 9am-Noon -- Alicia Doyle Lynch Statistical Trainer Harvard MIT Data Center 1737 Cambridge Street, K318 Cambridge MA 02138 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- grads mailing list served by Harvard-MIT Data Center List Address: grads(a)lists.gov.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

Lecture Videos (Spring 2011)

by Brandon Stewart

Greetings Gov2001 Students, This is mostly for the extension school students, but we wanted to let you all know that the lecture videos (for this year) are now online: http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2011/02/22403/publicationListing.shtml If you missed for the first day of class or live far away from Boston- be sure to check it out. Brandon _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

Welcome to Gov 2001

by Brandon Stewart

Greetings Gov-2001 Students! Welcome to the Gov 2001 list! First a review of announcements from class today: 1. We are having an R orientation session tomorrow in K 354 (same room as lecture and section) from 7PM-8:30PM. Bring your laptop if you want to follow along. People who have never used R before are very strongly encouraged to attend! I will post the materials online for those who cannot make it. Try to download R before you come (see the technology handout for details). 2. We are having section this Wednesday in K-354 from 7PM-8:30PM. Section will be taped, and we will post all section material to the course website each week. 3. All the handouts are available on the course website: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k76029&pageid=icb.page385645 The technology handout is under Computing Documentation entitled: Software You Will Need for Gov 2001. Be sure to read it along with the syllabus! 4. Readings for this week are "Publication, Publication" and the first three chapters of Unifying Political Methodology. You also need to watch lecture 2 on the video annotation tool. (More on these below) 5. If you didn't sign the video release please come see me during section! Second, a note about this list. Feel free to use this list to email about anything related to the course -- finding groups to work with, problem sets, questions from lecture, issues about the replication paper, etc. The list is a terrific resource and you'll generally get a speedy response, no matter what your request (and no matter the time of day!). Note that you must use the email address that you used to sign up for the list in order to send an email to the list. Also note that if you hit "reply," your message will be forwarded to the entire list, not just to the person to whom you're replying! Also don't forget the searchable list archive which is filled with tons of good info. http://lists.gking.harvard.edu/lists/gov2001_at_lists_gking_harvard_edu/ <http://lists.gking.harvard.edu/lists/gov2001_at_lists_gking_harvard_edu/>Third, you may have noticed we have a lot of new technical gadgets. You will be receiving an invitation to register with PollEverywhere (our cell phone texting company) and NB (the text annotation tool). You will also (hopefully) be granted guest access to the course website so that you can turn in the first problem set (due Feb 2nd). The video annotation tool is on its way. We will show you all of these things in section this week. If you have a question, first check the technology handout, then email the list. Thanks again. We are really excited to have you all in the class! Brandon and Molly _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

13 years, 2 months

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