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MM&C Specialized Computing Resources

MM&C students have access to the substantial resources provided by Temple University's Computer Services, but they frequently need to use specialized, and in some cases expensive, software for data entry, analysis, and reporting as they work on class-assigned, independent study, and dissertation research projects.

To better serve its students, in January 2003 MM&C established a computer workstation in Annenberg Hall with a variety of specialized data analysis software applications installed.

The computer is a Dell OptiPlex GX150, with a chip speed of 1.13 GHz, 256 megabytes of RAM, a 40 gigabyte hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, an Iomega Zip 250 drive, and a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 6P printer. The computer is connected to the internet via ethernet. Installed software includes the Windows XP operating system, the Microsoft Office XP suite (Word, Access, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint), and analysis software including SPSS, Ucinet, Thoughtview, and Anthropac (descriptions of these are below). Additional software will be added as needed (please forward requests to mmc@temple.edu).

The computer is on the basement level of Annenberg Hall, in Room 19, the Digital Video Editing Center (DVEC). Twenty-four hour access is available using a code lock on the door to Room 18 (the door isn't labeled at the moment, but it's to the left of the DVEC entrance, between AH 17 and AH 19).

To log on to and use the computer, students need a password. For security purposes, please e-mail mmc@temple.edu to obtain it.

To use the computer after normal business hours, students need the code for the Room 18 door lock. This can only be obtained in DVEC from Ritch James, the Post Production and Computer Lab Manager; be sure to bring your valid Temple ID card.

Please be considerate of other students working in DVEC and other students who would like to use the computer.

Special thanks to Sandy Kyrish, the Assistant Dean for Technology and Planning in SCT, for helping us obtain this new resource.

Here are descriptions of the analysis software on the computer:

SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)

"Over the past 30 years, people like you have used SPSS for data mining and database analysis, market and survey research, and research of all types because SPSS is the best software for solving business and research problems using statistics... SPSS is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured product line for the analytical process planning, data collection, data access and management, analysis, reporting and deployment." [From http://spss.com/spssbi/spss/]

Ucinet

"UCINET is a comprehensive program for the analysis of social networks and other proximity data. The program contains dozens of network analytic routines (e.g., centrality measures, dyadic cohesion measures, positional analysis algorithms, clique finders, etc.), stochastic dyad models (P1), network hypothesis testing procedures (including QAP matrix correlation/regression and categorical and continuous attribute autocorrelation tests), plus general statistical and multi?variate analysis tools such as multi?dimensional scaling, correspondence analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, multiple regression, etc. In addition, UCINET provides a host of data management and transformation tools ranging from graph-theoretic procedures to a full-featured matrix algebra language." [From http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet_5_description.html]

Thoughtview

"Attitudes, beliefs and feelings are abstract and hard to visualize. ThoughtView makes them visible. You can actually view the main attitudes and beliefs of any person or group of people, in color and 3D, graphically on your computer screen. Full motion graphics let you see models from every angle, compare different people and groups at a glance." [From http://www.thegalileocompany.com/products/thoughtview.php]

Anthropac

"ANTHROPAC is a menu-driven DOS program for collecting and analyzing data on cultural domains. The program helps collect and analyze structured qualitative and quantitative data including freelists, pilesorts, triads, paired comparisons, and ratings. ANTHROPAC's analytical tools include techniques that are unique to Anthropology, such as consensus analysis, as well as standard multivariate tools such as multiple regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and correspondence analysis. In addition, the program provides a wide variety of data manipulation and transformation tools, plus a full-featured matrix algebra language." [From http://www.analytictech.com/apacdesc.htm]

T-LAB

"T-LAB is a quick and reliable way of extracting, comparing and mapping the contents of different kinds of texts: speech transcripts, newspaper articles, legislative texts, documents (including internet downloads), books, responses to open- ended questions, etc. ... T-LAB is a software conceived and constructed to be easily used by a variety of people, from university students to professionals; in numerous fields of application: education, market research, politics, journalism, human resource management, psychology, customer satisfaction survey, internet, literature, law, religion etc." [From http://www.tlab.it/en/presentazione.asp]

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