Carmine Scavo spent the last part of the summer working on the 2016 ANES SETUPS (American National Election Study Supplementary Empirical Teaching Unit in Political Science). This project seeks to teach undergraduate and graduate students basic data usage and data analysis skills using the 2016 American National Election Study. Scavo and co-author Charles Prysby of UNC-Greensboro reformat and recode the ANES to make it simpler for students to use to do their own data analysis.
See http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/setups2016/.
On the website, students are led through a series of exercises that gradually increase in sophistication leading them to develop their own research questions which they can analyze in the included data set. The project is sponsored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. The SETUPS project has been developed in the summer after a US presidential election since 1980. Prysby was an originator of the project and Scavo came on board in 1984. Early versions of the project were published as monographs with an accompanying data set; since 2004 the project has been completely online and includes online data analysis software for student and instructor use.