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Data Services: What is a data set?
What is a data set?
A data set is a group of files associated with a study or other research and which might include a data file, codebook, and other documentation and related files.
Most data sets require at least basic statistical or spreadsheet programs to use.
Spatial data sets require Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to use.
What is ICPSR?
What is spatial data and GIS?
Want more information?
See this great glossary of Social Science Computing and Social Science Data Terms , compiled by Jim Jacob at the University of California, San-Diego