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Last updates of 2020
2020...what a year! At AUSSDA a lot has happened, here is a little review.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe: Disentangling measurement and reality in ex-post harmonization
The scores in our dataset are not reality itself; they are glimpses at reality through the lens of the respective measurement instrument. In research practice, that distinction sometimes takes a ba...

New Service: Self Deposit
For researchers at our partner universities, we have created a new option to publish datasets independently at the AUSSDA archive. Learn more about our Self-Deposit Service here!

What impacts means to me
Anne Alarilla is one of our #DataImpactFellows. We asked what impact means to her.

What to do when survey data is not available or not trustworthy? An application of novel ecological inference techniques to the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920
Ecological inference techniques, as advocated and codified by Gary King, provide a way forward when survey data is biased or unavailable and researchers need to infer individual behavior from conte...

The Science and The Politics
Janet Bowstead, one of our #DataImpactFellows, shares her thoughts on how the often-made distinction between “the science” and “the politics” is not as simple as it might ap...