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Special Office Hours Series 2024-2025:
"LeaRn With NDACAN"

The 2024-2025 Office Hours series has concluded. It featured 30-minute courses on teaching data users to code in the R programming software, followed by 30-minutes of open support time and breakout groups. The R course featured instruction and live coding, including handouts covering the core concepts and codes of each lesson, and was accompanied by assignments for participants to complete between sessions to practice the skills taught in the course. The sample dataset used in the course and the assignments are available at the course files link below. The R course was recorded and turned into a free webinar series with links below.


Special Office Hours Series "LeaRn With NDACAN" Webinars 2024-2025


Link to 'LeaRn with NDACAN' R course files:
https://cornell.box.com/v/LeaRn-with-R-NDACAN-2024-2025

Summer Training Series

Join us for the 2025 Summer Training Series on-line! The theme of the 2025 series is "Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project". Presentations will take place on Wednesdays from 12PM - 1PM (Eastern Time) and will 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 Summer Training Series helps participants advance research projects using our data and increases the impact of such work. The presentations are free but advanced registration is required through the link provided below.


2025 Summer Training Series Schedule:
Wednesdays from 12PM - 1PM (Eastern Time)

  • July 2nd — Developing a Research Question and Exploring the Data
    • Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
  • July 9th — Data Management
    • Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
  • July 16th — Linking Data
    • Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
  • July 23rd — Exploratory Analysis
    • Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
  • July 30th — Visualization and Finalizing the Analysis
    • Presenter: Noah Won, M.S., NDACAN Data Analyst

2025 Summer Training Series Registration Link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ShrEdYDEQq-5u6XVocrPaQ



Summer Research Institute (SRI)

The SRI is NDACAN's annual on-line research workshop in which participants analyze Archive datasets over multiple days with close support and expertise provided by NDACAN professionals as-needed. The SRI also provides participating child abuse and neglect researchers an opportunity for networking and collaborating with each other. Please visit our Summer Research Institute general information page for more details. Please join our mailing list, the CMRL list serve or follow us on 'X' (Twitter)external link to receive announcements about the SRI.