Social science researchers are interested in human relationships and the ways in which humans experience the world. Researchers come from a variety of different fields, like sociology, political science, psychology, education, human geography, public policy, and global studies. Social science researchers use a diverse variety of different datasets and may work in teams to answer interdisciplinary research questions on topics such as
To learn more about searching for data please see our Data & Statistics Research Guide. Our Data Management Research Guide also provides best practices for managing social science data at GW.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - Glossary
Social Science Research and Instructional Council Glossary
Text, Documentation, Scripts: XML, PDF, HTML, Plain Text
Still Images: TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, JPEG/JFIF, DNG (digital negative), BMP, GIF
Geospatial: Shapefile (SHP, DBF, SHX), GeoTIFF, NetCDF
Graphic Images:
Audio Files: WAVE, AIFF, MP3, MXF, FLAC
Video Files: MOV, MPEG-4, AVI, MXF
Database Files: XML, CSV, TAB
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