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Contents:
Account Creation & Management
Create User Account
Edit Your Account
Institutional Log In
How to create a new Dataverse account using Institutional Log In
How to use your Institutional Log In for your Dataverse account
How to change your Dataverse account to no longer use Institutional Log In
Create Your API Token
My Data
Notifications: Setup & Maintainance
Reset Your Account Password
Finding and Using Data
Finding Data
Basic Search
Advanced Search
Browsing Dataverse
Saved Search
Using Data
View Dataverses + Datasets
Cite Data
Download Files
Explore Data
Dataverse Management
Create a Dataverse (Within the “Root” Dataverse)
Edit Dataverse
General Information
Theme
Widgets
Dataverse Search Box Widget
Dataverse Listing Widget
Adding Widgets to an OpenScholar Website
Permissions
Assign Role
Dataset Templates
Dataset Guestbooks
Featured Dataverses
Linked Dataverses + Linked Datasets
Publish Your Dataverse
Dataset + File Management
Supported Metadata
File Handling + Uploading
Tabular Data Files
Geospatial
Astronomy (FITS)
Compressed Files
Advanced Options
Adding a New Dataset
Supported HTML Fields
Edit Files
File Tags
Upload New Files
Terms
CC0 Waiver + Dataset Terms of Use
Setting up Custom Terms of Use for Datasets
Restricted Files + Terms of Access
Guestbook
Permissions
Dataset-Level
File-Level
Widgets
Dataset Widget
Dataset Citation Widget
Adding Widgets to an OpenScholar Website
Publish Dataset
Submit for Review
Private URL for Reviewing an Unpublished Dataset
To share an unpublished dataset using Private URL
To disable a Private URL
Dataset Versioning
Version Details
Deaccession Your Dataset [not recommended]
Tabular Data File Ingest
Supported File Formats
Tabular Data, Representation, Storage and Ingest
What Happens During this “Ingest”?
Tabular Data and Metadata
Data vs. Metadata
Tabular Metadata in Dataverse
SPSS
Supported Versions
Limitations
SPSS Control Cards - not supported
Support for Language Encodings in SPSS
Stata
R Data Format
Overview.
Data Formatting Requirements.
Data Types, compared to other supported formats (Stat, SPSS)
Integers, Doubles, Character strings
R Factors
Boolean values
Limitations of R, as compared to SPSS and STATA.
Time values in R
Excel
CSV
Ingest of Comma-Separated Values files as tabular data.
Main formatting requirements:
Limitations:
Tab-delimited Data Files:
Data Exploration Guide
TwoRavens: Tabular Data Exploration
Exploring and Analyzing Tabular files in Dataverse
Selection/Left Panel:
Original Data and Subset Data:
Variables, Models, and Summary:
Modeling/Center Panel:
Results/Right Panel:
Subset
Set Covariates
Additional Buttons:
Estimate
Force
Reset
WorldMap: Geospatial Data Exploration
WorldMap
Uploading Shapefiles to Dataverse
Mapping your data with Geoconnect
Appendix
Metadata References