Social Science Data Service Equipment Upgrade

社会科学数据服务是一个集中的设施，为加州大学戴维斯分校的社会科学家提供数据管理、计算和统计支持。目前的计算机系统已经过时，无法支持大型数据库或前沿研究所需的复杂分析。在NSF的支持下，将提供升级和扩展系统所需的仪器。一台DEC Alphaserver 4000、调制解调器池、2台microron thousand Pro 2400奔腾电脑、数据库管理和内容分析软件以及网络实用程序将通过增强现有的多用户工作站系统，提高大规模数据分析和建模的系统性能。它将提高管理和合并来自大型和不同数据集的信息的能力，并为内容分析工作提供新的资源。来自经济学、政治学和社会学部门的研究人员将广泛使用该系统。在经济学中，该工具将提高使用定量方法来检查从经济史到工业组织、国际贸易、劳动经济学和公共经济学等领域的广泛主题的能力。许多用户使用大型数据集，有些数据集的大小达到几gb。在政治科学领域，九个潜在的最活跃的用户研究诸如大规模政治冲突的扩散、争端的升级、发达国家贸易、资本和移民政策之间的联系以及美国国会选举结果的因果关系水平的影响等问题。在社会学中，适合大规模数据分析的主要主题包括经济社会学、工业社会学、政治社会学、犯罪学、人口统计学、性别、家庭和种族问题、小团体过程和发展。目前的项目着眼于诸如人口增长对加利福尼亚的环境和污染程度的影响、加利福尼亚巴列霍的菲律宾移民社区以及美国妇女的劳动力参与等问题。该设施也将被本科生和研究生广泛使用

The Social Science Data Service is a centralized facility which provides data management and computational and statistical support to social scientists at the University of California, Davis. Its current computer system is outdated and unable to support the large data bases or the complex analyses required for cutting edge research. With NSF support instrumentation necessary to upgrade and expand the system will be provided. A DEC Alphaserver 4000, modem pool, 2 Micron Millennia Pro 2 400 pentium Pcs, database management and content analysis software and networking utilities will: improve system performance for large-scale data analysis and modeling through augmentation of the existing multi-user workstation system. It will improve the ability to manage and merge information from large and diverse data sets and provide new resources for content analysis work. Researchers from the departments of economics, political science and sociology will make extensive use of the system. Within economics the instrumentation will improve the ability to use quantitative methods to examine a wide array of topics in areas ranging from economic history to industrial organization, international trade, labor economics and public economics. A number of users work with large data sets, some several gigabytes in size. Within political science the nine potential most active users examine issues such as the diffusion of mass political conflict, the escalation of disputes, the linkage between trade, capital and immigration policies in developed nations and the impact of causality levels on Congressional election outcomes in the United States. Within sociology major topics amenable to large scale data analysis include economic sociology, industrial sociology, political sociology, criminology, demography, gender, family and race issues, small group processes and development. Current projects look at such issues as the impact of population growth on the environment and pollution levels in California, the Filipino immigrant community in Vallejo, California and the labor force participation of women in the United States. The facility will also be used extensively by both undergraduate and graduate students