1. Yasmin Saira & Dana Neacsu
Interdisciplinary Research in Law:   Data mining & Interpretation– do you have the correct facts to support a legal theory?
Yasmin Saira
&
Dana Neacsu

2. Research Question
Research problem 1: In this Ted Talk: you will hear a bunch of stats. But where do all these numbers come from? Please work in groups of 2-3 students. You have 15 minutes to find their source.
What type of database you need
What resources you need

3. Research questions Pollution Prison Use of Drugs Body Image;
Plastic cups on airlines (number of)
Paper cups /day typically for coffee (number of)
Prison
US percentage of population in prison
Use of Drugs
 number of Americans who die from cigarette in comparison to number of
people who died in 9/11 tragedy;
number of teenagers who will start smoking in US
 number of ER visits due to abuse/misuse of prescription in comparison to total ER visits for abuse/misuse of drug.
Body Image;
Most popular HS grad gift?/ Number of breast augmentation surgeries;
subset of women under age of 21

4. Preliminary meta-research When you research a matter totally unknown to you, then starting could be tricky. Find an expert! Always a good idea, but It may be hard to find an expert because you do not know what type of expertise you need Luckily you are taking this workshop and you will learn that whenever you need to research mergers, these are the best databases:
Strategize:
If you want primary sources,
What type?
What do you expect to find?
Where would you go for them?
Secondary sources? (same question)

5. General strategies for finding data
1. Search the literature for references to data sources used for similar research
2. Think about who would be most likely to have created/collected the data.  (Also important: why would they collect the data?)
3. Would the data be freely available or could it be proprietary?
4. Does it exist in an easily manipulated format or is it only available in print sources?

6. Databases with For Literature Search
JSTOR Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication
Business Source Complete Contains full-text scholarly business and economics journals.
Proquest Direct: This resource includes citations and full text articles in academic & professional disciplines, including business, economics, health, management, political science; as well as news and general interest items.
EconLit Contains citations, abstracts and full text to economic research dating back to Contains journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.

7. Databases you may use Pollution Prison
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Airlines for America
Disposable Coffee Cup Waste Reduction Study - McMaster Universit
Your Paper Cup Is Destroying the World - New York Magazine
Prison
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - Prison population counts
Annual Survey of Jails - U.S. Census Bureau

8. Research Guide and Databases Cont.
Use of Drugs
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tobacco –related mortality (smoking
Deaths in World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks
Statista
smoking forecast among us adults
Body Image
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
2016 Plastic Surgery Statistics

9. General Sources for Social Science Data
Statistical Abstract of the United States;
Center for Disease Control (cdc.gov);
Department of Justice; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (
Statista [electronic resource]

10. Other Resources for Global data
Web CEIC data manager [electronic resource]
CEIC Data contains economic, industrial and financial time-series data and cover over 60 countries. Data comes from analysts on the ground and the prime national and regional statistical agencies and major industrial data issuing organizations of each country covered. The CEIC Data Manager provides access to the entire CEIC database from within the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application. Times-series can be directly retrieved from the database and imported into Excel for quick analysis.
Global financial data [electronic resource]
Global Financial Data is a collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. Data includes: long-term historical indices on stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices; consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates covering over 200 countries.
Global insight [electronic resource]
Consists of economic time series data and financial market data for various countries throughout the world. Includes forecasts, commodities, demographics and other economic indicators.

11. Resources for economic analysis and data
Economic data [electronic resource] : FRED
Database containing U.S. economic time series. Data can be downloaded in in Microsoft Excel and text formats.
Research guides
List of course, research and orientation guides created by Watson Librarians
Economics Research
This online guide gives a quick overview of the resources that are available to Columbia students and faculty to research in the economics field.

12. Questions? Yasmin Saira
Dana Neacsu