1. James Davis (Dartmouth, then Harvard) used to teach an intro course based on analyzing survey data. This was 20-35 years ago, using mainframes and primitive command-line software. I once replicated it with a small intro class of 30 and it went well. Should go better with SPSS point-click, as long as you stick to freqs & xtabs: graphs & tables. I think Jim did a book on this, but I forget the name (: 2. We give a Many Eyes assignment in my 3rd year course. Many Eyes is an IBM Visual Labs (name?) contribution that hangs up a lot of data sets, and some tools for visualizing and analyzing it. Whatever you do, I hope you have TA backup, as this always takes a lot of hand-holding. But it is gratifying when they "get it". Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________