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Up till now I never used much my own
YAC Data Kit software.
Several large surveys, including PGSS (Polish General Social Survey), PBC (Polish Readership Survey),
and the main radio audience survey (Radio-Track)... several demonstration surveys... and that's probably it
(and it is some time since I worked on the large surveys mentioned above).
Obviously, when developing software, you use it everyday,
but it's a totally different thing to use an application as an ordinary user.
And since I recently read the
UsWare vs. ThemWare article
(on the always phenomenal Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog),
I decided to listen to it and spend some time on working with my programs. :)
So, I started looking for a generally available, but big, data set.
Finally, I chose the General Social Survey
conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
On these pages I will be describing how work on this data using YAC Data Kit goes.
Also, I will be describing which functions (and how) were inspired by this experiment.
And, by the way, the first version of the data along with several reports is already available on our
YDOL
server.
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