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IRiSS partners with local community colleges to provide Stanford students access to human subject pools.
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There are two web-based survey tools available to Stanford social science students: Qualtrics and Opinio.
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Get more information about the resources available at Stanford for social scientists interested in using geographic information systems.
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Stanford's large scale compute clusters can be used by students and faculty when they need more computing power than they currently have.
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The IRiSS Secure Data Center (SDC) provides access to sensitive and secure data.