Article archive for the 'General' Category

We have been awarded an NSF grant to continue the VirtualRDC and create a Social Science Gateway (SSG) to TeraGrid

July 29th, 2009

John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber have been awarded NSF grant SES-0922005 to continue the VirtualRDC in its current form, as well as create a new Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid. [More »]

QWIPU R2009Q2 (data through 2008:3) available for download

July 27th, 2009

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2009Q2 covers data through 2008:3. [More »]

Account creation paused until July 14, 2009

June 29th, 2009

The site administrator-cum-sysadmin is away until July 14, 2009. No accounts (for download: QWI, OnTheMap; for compute access) will be created during this time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Conference site open for 2009 Joint U.S.-Canadian Census Research Data Center Conference

June 26th, 2009

From the Cornell RDC administrator, addressed to (prospective) RDC researchers:

A web page is now available with transportation, lodging and registration information for the upcoming 2009 Joint U.S.-Canadian Census Research Data Center Conference. Please visit the site here:

http://ciser.cornell.edu/pub/RDC2009Conference.shtm

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Subscribing to notification by email

June 10th, 2009

We have enabled a FeedBurner-moderated notification mechanism: you can now get email updates when a new post is published on this site. In order to subscribe, go to Mailing lists. And let us know if you like this new mechanism.

Preliminary program for NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality Protection posted

June 2nd, 2009

A preliminary but near-final program has been posted to  http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/. Participants are still welcome to register. [More »]

QWIPU R2009Q1 (data through 2008:2) available for download

April 30th, 2009

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2009Q1 covers data through 2008:2. [More »]

QWIPU R2009Q1 (data through 2008:2) for all participating states are available on compute nodes, will be available later today on the download server

April 30th, 2009

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states have been made available on our compute nodes. [More »]

Zero obs files for Integrated Longitudinal Business Database are available

April 9th, 2009

The ILBD data sets are located at /economic/ilbd/microdata on our compute nodes, the same location they are located on the Census RDC cluster.

Registration and presentation submission open for NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality Protection 2009

March 31st, 2009

You can now submit papers and register to participate at the planned workshop. Details are at http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/. A preliminary program can be found there as well.