LibGuides: Political Science: Guides for finding and using social data

Guides for exploring social data

IAPA Thesis Writer's Guide to Data
Social Sciences Data Resources
Resources, tools and tops for finding and managing data across the social sciences.
Open Data guide
Locate and use numeric, statistical, geospatial, and qualitative data sets, find data management templates, find data repositories to house your own data and find tools for data visualization.
Census Data
This guide provides an introduction to U.S. census data: concepts, datasets, and data sources
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This guide provides an introduction to GIS software, data, and resources.
Brown GIS and Data tutorials
This guide contains GIS and data tutorials created by the Brown University Library
ProQuest TDM (Text Data Mining)
ProQuest TDM provides access to a wide variety of ProQuest texts (publications, newspapers, zines, papers) in a platform that allows text analysis. This guide introduces the platform and included text holdings, as well as two approaches for analyzing text
Gallup Poll Microdata
Brown researchers can submit requests for microdata extracts from several surveys.