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The Beginning: Words on Paper

Posted: Oct, 18, 2012

By: Hector Fernando...

By Hector Fernando Burga The process of brainstorming ideas in a collaborative manner has been a central feature of the formation of D-Lab. This images belongs to one of our first sessions when D-Lab Supervisors and GSR’s came together to make a list of the services, workshops and consultations that would define our scope. Over time we have been able to fine tune our process by accomplishing organizational tasks, achieving clear role identification and working in subgroups.

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The Human Mortality Database (HMD)

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) The Human Mortality
Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data
to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others
interested in the history of human longevity. It is an outgrowth of the
earlier Berkeley Mortality Database (BMD), and is co-sponsored by UC
Berkeley (with funding from the NIA) and the Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research, located in Rostock, Germany. The HMD currently

California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC)

The California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC) Berkeley is
one of nine Research Data Centers (RDCs) established by the Center for
Economic Studies (CES) of the U.S. Bureau of the Census in order to provide
secure physical locations for researchers to use non-public microdata
collected by the Census Bureau. These microdata files contain data that
cannot be released publicly because they contain detailed information on
geographic location and/or other characteristics about the firms or

Survey Documentation & Analysis (SDA)

SDA is a set of programs for the documentation and Web-based
analysis of survey data. SDA is developed and maintained by the
Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at Berkeley. SDA is widely
used by data producers and distributors -- including the University of
Minnesota (IPUMS), the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR), UC Los Angeles, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, CPANDA, PPIC, and
many others - and provides fast and powerful online analytic access to a
broad variety of research data.

About D-Lab

Our Mission

D-Lab helps Berkeley faculty, staff, and students move forward with world-class research in data intensive social science. We think of data as an expansive category, one that is constantly changing as the research frontier moves. We offer a venue for methodological exchange from all corners of campus and across its bounds. 

Intelligent research design for data intensive social science

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