[Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations

[BETTS Chris]

This is a great resource.
Thanks to all who contributed.

From: Sora [mailto:sora-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Brookshire Kayla
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 2:32 PM
To: State of Oregon Research Academy <sora at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Subject: Re: [Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations

I wanted to say thank you to everyone for the wonderful suggestions! As requested, I have attached a compilation of the resources to share with the SORA mailing list.

Best regards,

Kayla M. Brookshire
503.947.4639


From: Sora [mailto:sora-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of BURCSU Theresa * DAS
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:47 AM
To: State of Oregon Research Academy
Subject: Re: [Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations

Requests like these are fantastic! I've gotten a bunch of great references from this thread.

I offer a two-part suggestion for future requests like this one:

1.     ask for private responses

2.     follow up with a summary of responses, list of requested information, or other digest of the responses distributed to the entire list

I have seen this method work extremely well on other lists. Cheers!

From: Sora [mailto:sora-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of ELLIS Lorianne M.
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 4:21 PM
To: State of Oregon Research Academy <sora at listsmart.osl.state.or.us<mailto:sora at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>>
Subject: Re: [Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations

Love this link Basics of statistical analyses - http://davidakenny.net/doc/statbook/kenny87.pdf. I am in a Doctorate program and have had a few stats classes. This PDF breaks things down in a nice, digestible way.

Thanks for sharing!!

Lori

From: Sora [mailto:sora-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of KOIKKARA Reshmi * HCS
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:22 AM
To: State of Oregon Research Academy
Subject: Re: [Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations


1.       Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis. 3rd edition. Cohen, Cohen, West, & Aiken

2.       Basics of statistical analyses - http://davidakenny.net/doc/statbook/kenny87.pdf

Reshmi Koikkara
Research Analyst
Oregon Housing and Community Services
725 Summer St. NE, Salem, OR. 97301
(503)-986-5469



From: Sora [mailto:sora-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of SOUTH Robert D
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:03 AM
To: 'sora at listsmart.osl.state.or.us'
Subject: Re: [Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations

Hi Kayla,
My history includes database design & development, and I participate in SORA. I'm not a Research Analyst by title, but, have done data/information analysis for decades. Different database vendors develop (modified) SQL for their particular products. If you use Oracle Database or SQL Server Database your SQL will be variants. There is a generic SQL, but you most likely will benefit by asking your in-house DBA team what your primary databases are, and focus on them. For example, at ODOT we generally use Microsoft SQL Server, though we have a few Oracle databases as well. We have 1 DBA with years of Oracle expertise, the rest of the DBA/DA team focus primarily on SQL Server. At ODOT the staff should focus on Microsoft SQL Server based SQL. Your organization probably uses a primary Database Product, like (Microsoft) SQL Server as well.

If your office is basically a Microsoft based shop you should learn SQL Server Management Studio as an interface to your databases.

Hope that's helpful,
Robert South
Senior Systems/Data Analyst
ODOT, TAD
355 Capitol St. NE, Salem OR
503.986.3320



From: Sora [mailto:sora-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Brookshire Kayla
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:33 PM
To: 'sora at listsmart.osl.state.or.us'
Subject: [Sora] Request for Reference Library Recommendations

Good Afternoon SORA Members,

I am a Research Analyst with the Department of Justice, Division of Child Support. We are in the process of building a research analyst reference library for our team.

Given the expansive body of knowledge of SORA members, we wanted to reach out and ask: what are your recommendations for specific titles to add to our library?

We are particularly interested in obtaining references for the following areas:

*  SQL training materials, and

*  References for quantitative analysis (descriptive and inferential) including multivariate regression

Any recommendation of texts, manuals, handbooks, etc. from introductory to advanced level would be most appreciated.

Thank you all in advance,

Kayla M. Brookshire
Program Performance Analyst | Division of Child Support
Oregon Department of Justice
Child Support Program Administration
503.947.4639
oregonchildsupport.gov<http://www.oregonchildsupport.gov/>

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