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Browse all 6 resourcesTranslated outreach slide templates
Editable slide and handout templates for community sessions, professionally translated into five languages, with the layout already adjusted for longer text and right-to-left scripts.
- outreach
- translation
- accessibility
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Audience: Communications Audience: Program staff Access: Members only1 moreData request intake and triage kit
The intake form, triage rubric and estimate worksheet the analytics team uses to turn a vague request into a scoped piece of work — or into a decision not to do it.
- data requests
- intake and triage
- workload planning
- 1 more topics
Audience: Analysts Audience: Program staff Access: Members only2 moreIPUMS USA harmonised census microdata
Harmonised individual-level census and American Community Survey microdata going back to 1850, with an extract builder that lets you pick only the variables and years you need.
- demographics
- census
- microdata
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Audience: Analysts Audience: External partners Access: Free account requiredData Carpentry: R for Social Scientists
A two-day, hands-on lesson that takes someone from no R at all to loading a survey dataset, cleaning it with dplyr and producing publishable charts with ggplot2.
- R
- training
- data analysis
- 1 more topics
Audience: Analysts Audience: Program staff Access: Freely availableFederal Plain Language Guidelines
The reference manual behind most plain-language style rules: how to structure a document for the reader, choose words, cut hedging, and write instructions people can follow.
- plain language
- public communication
- writing
- 1 more topics
Audience: Communications Audience: Program staff Access: Freely available1 moreLast confirmed Aug 2025
OpenRefine
A free desktop tool for cleaning messy spreadsheets — clustering near-duplicate values, splitting columns and reconciling names — that records every step so the clean-up can be replayed on next month's file.
- data cleaning
- spreadsheets
- reproducibility
Audience: Analysts Audience: IT & data teams Access: Freely available1 more
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