2025 Summer Training Series Webinars

The Summer Training Series helps participants advance research projects using our data and increases the impact of such work. The 2025 Summer Training Series "Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project" presentations guide participants through a research project using NDACAN administrative data (NYTD and AFCARS datasets), from idea generation and basic data cleaning through the presentation of results. The presentation are posted below.

• July 2^nd — Developing a Research Question and Exploring the Data
• Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
• Session 1 Video | Session 1 Slides (PDF) | Session 1 Transcript (txt)
• July 9^th — Data Management
• Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
• Session 2 Video | Session 2 Slides (PDF) | Session 2 Transcript (txt) | Session 2 R Code (.R)
• July 16^th — Linking Data
• Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
• Session 3 Video | Session 3 Slides (PDF) | Session 3 Transcript (txt) | Session 3 R Code (.R)
• July 23^rd — Exploratory Analysis
• Presenters: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University, and Noah Won, M.S., NDACAN Data Analyst
• Session 4 Video | Session 4 Slides (PDF) | Session 4 Transcript (txt) | Session 4 R Code (.R)
• July 30^th — Visualization and Finalizing the Analysis
• Presenter: Noah Won, M.S., NDACAN Data Analyst
• Session 5 Video | Session 5 Slides (PDF) | Session 5 Transcript (txt) | Session 5 R Code (.R)