Datasets
- American National Election Studies (ANES) (SHARP currently has geospatial access.)
- General Social Survey (GSS) (SHARP currently has geospatial access.)
- SHARP has proprietary representative surveys of the U.S. collected between 1999 and 2016, gauging community levels of numerous health-related variables (e.g., stress, anxiety, depression) and with geocodes.
- SHARP also has numerous databases related to health promotion efforts, especially those pursuing behavioral strategies.
- Social Explorer (Use for U.S. census variables over time; it offers coarse to specific spatial resolution over time; UConn affiliates, the VPN will let you use UConn’s institutional subscription, if off campus; this link goes directly to the resource)
- The Equality of Opportunity Project (economic trends in US, county-level data, 2014)
- American Community Surveys
- World Value Surveys (nation-level, individual data; recent years for the U.S. have state)
- Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: U.S. Hate Crime Data, 2012 (County-level geocodes)
- CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) (Geocodes for most places)
- CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) (Geocodes for many larger cities)
- National College Health Assessment (NCHA) (Census region geocodes)
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
- National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
- VITamins And Lifestyle (VITAL) Study: A Cohort Study of Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk (US-census blocks geocodes)
- National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
- Fragile Family and Child Well-being (FFCW) study
- Health Behaviors in School Aged Children (HBSC)
- American Changing Lives Survey (ACL)
- National Comorbidity Survey (NCS)
- China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) (Province-level geocodes)
- Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) (County-level geocodes)
- Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD)
- Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
- Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)
- Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (GHWBI)
- Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
- Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS)
- Drug Abuse Statistics
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC)
- NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM, for topography or elevation around the Earth)
- Amazon Public Datasets
- Listing of public databases with instructions for analyses using R
- data.gov (~200k databases)
- SEER cancer-related databases (NCI)
- U.S. Church Membership Data (ARDA)
- Pew Polls
- Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (UConn affiliates, use VPN if off-campus)
- Gapminder’s compilation of databases (519 nation-level indicators, as of 15 Apr 2018)
- MAGIC at UConn
Science Help
- Glossary of Scientific Terms (Goodfellow Advanced Materials)
- Meta-Science (OAPEN)
Statistics Help
- Online coursera class on learning R
- R programming in one hour – a crash course for beginners
- Fitting and visualizing linear regression models with the ggplot2 R package (CC237)
- DataCamp
- Joining databases using SPSS
- Joining databases using Stata
Prof. Johnson on the Web
- Prof. Johnson’s page on the UConn Social Psychology website
- Prof. Johnson’s publications on Google Scholar
- Prof. Johnson’s pages on the Social Psychology Network
- Prof. Johnson’s work on ResearchGate
- Prof. Johnson’s April, 2015. TedXUConn talk on Youtube: Applying the Network Individual Resource Model to Public Health (11:07)
- Prof. Johnson’s blog focused on meta-analysis; e.g., the “meta-analysis is the original big data” (2013) and the importance of theory-based models of data (2014)
- Prof. Johnson on YouTube: Modeling Effect Sizes Using Stata: Heterogeneity and the Moving Constant Technique (02 April 2014) (51:31)
- Prof. Johnson on YouTube: Running the Wilson Macros for Meta-Analysis in SPSS (01 April 2014) (24:46)
Physical Resources
- SHARP currently has research space in CHIP (Ryan Refectory).
- And in the Department of Psychological Sciences (Bousfield Hall).
- It has numerous computers and excellent IT support.
Miscellaneous
- Why do we use only two decimal places to represent year, when it has four places? (4:28 YouTube video)
- UConn’s Naxos Music Library