EDS Services and Collections

• Classroom Instruction
  EDS staff will come to a class room session or host groups in EDS to speak about our collections and services. These sessions can be a general overview of EDS or specific to parts or our collection that apply to a particular course. Requests should be sent to eds@columbia.edu.
 

• EDS Brochure
  For instructors who wish to inform their students of our services but who cannot spare class time for a guest speaker, they can distribute the EDS brochure in class.
 

• Web Guides and Documentation
In addition to being available to answer individual user questions, either by email (eds@columbia.edu) or by visiting EDS, we a have prepared a number of web-based guides to topics of particular interest to our users.

GIS

• GIS Workshops
  EDS offers a series of GIS workshops that introduce users to GIS and provide a forum for discussing GIS-related questions. This is an ongoing program.
 

• ESRI Virtual Campus
  ESRI products include ArcView and ArcGIS. Free online tutorials covering these products are available to Columbia users at the ESRI Virtual Campus.
 

• Web guides and Documentation
  In addtion to web guides, ESRI manuals are available in EDS. Assistance with GIS or spatial data is available in EDS or be email, eds@columbia.edu
 

• Columbia's GIS Web Site
  This site lists training provided by other groups within Columbia.

Statistical Software

• User support
  Either in EDS or by email, eds@columbia.edu, staff will assist users in:
  • getting their data into the format they need for analysis,
  • work with manuals to understand program language syntax.
 

• Web Guides for Statistical Software
  These relate to the above types of support provided by EDS.
 

• Training Aids
  There are options for self-guide tutorials in: SAS, SPSS, and Stata.

EDS does not provide consulting relating to statistical methodology. Statistical consulting is available in the Statistics Department or from ISERP.