»The Ludie & David C. Henley Social Sciences Research Laboratory

The Henley lab supports undergraduate and faculty research through a variety of programs. Research assistants staff the lab five days a week and can help faculty with the collection and analysis of data. They are also available to support students by providing tutoring in SPSS, GIS and quantitative methods for courses that include this content.

Students who are interested in getting involved in a research project with faculty or who would like to do their own independent research are encouraged to visit the lab to find out about current opportunities.

(Pictured above: Mr. David Henley, a member of the Board of Trustees' Academic Committee.)

Henley lab work has been cited by national and international press, our fellows have been accepted into prestigious graduate schools, and our research has assisted emergency managers throughout Orange County, helping to make all of us safer from disasters. In addition, the lab provides support five days a week to students who need tutoring in SPSS, GIS, R, and quantitative methods for courses that include this content.

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Henley lab fellows presented the results of their independent research projects at the Hawaii University International Social Science Conference on Oahu, using data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears, which they helped develop. Students and faculty who attended the conference also got to meet with Chapman alumni who live on the island.

Left to right: Shreya Sheth (’21), Ashley Lee (’20),
Corinne Tam (’20), Paige Goedderz (’21), Muhammad Karkoutli (’20)

Learning R - Linkedin Learning video tutorial with Barton Poulson.
Hands-On Programming with R - the basics.
R for Data Science - the basics but it goes more in-depth.
Text Mining with R - this book goes over how to conduct text analysis in R (sentiment analysis and visualization).
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction - this book goes over the basics of visualization in R.

Here’s how to run SPSS remotely on your Mac
Here’s how to run SPSS remotely on PC
If you want to access SPSS remotely without downloading the VMware to your computer, follow these instructions.
Learning SPSS - Linkedin Learning tutorial videos for SPSS
Importing Data from Excel to SPSS - tutorial video
Interpreting SPSS Output - guide for understanding tests and outputs
Recoding into Same and Different Variables - tutorial video
A Student’s Guide to Interpreting SPSS Output for Basic Analyses
How to export output from SPSS using VLAB
How to save your SPSS data using VLAB

Roper Center Data

You can access nearly 800,000 survey questions and over 23,000 datasets from more than 100 different countries here: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/. Topics include the role of government, race relations, health, education, and much more.

The ARDA

The ARDA provides free access to the most authoritative religion statistics, data and church membership reports from around the world. http://www.thearda.com/

The Chapman Survey of American Fears
(for more recent waves, email agordon@chapman.edu)

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