IPSR Staff

Larry Hoyle
Computer Services Associate Scientist 607 Blake Hall (785) 864-9110 email: larryhoyle@ku.edu Roles and Responsibilities Current Areas of Research / Expertise Sample Publications / Honors

At the Institute since October, 1980

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Kansas, 1980

Roles and Responsibilities

• Supervises a staff responsible for computing support for IPSR staff and a Census State Data Center Component.

Current Areas of Research / Expertise

• Use of the World Wide Web for dynamic information delivery and visualization.

• Integration of research data and metadata.

Sample Publications / Honors

• Honorable Mention at the 31st Annual SAS User\'s Group International (SUGI; 2006) Conference for his paper titled, "Reading Microsoft Word XML files with SAS".
• USD 497 Friend of Education Award, 1995
• First Prize, Business Division, Zenith Masters of Innovation Competition, 1991
• Pewewardy, Hoyle, & Kim, "Children's Client Status Report, CMHC's Reports, July, August, September (FY99 Q1)" for The Office of Social Policy Analysis, Ronna Chamberlain, Director, February, 1999.
• Hoyle, Lawrence E. SAS Software and the WWW - What Next? Invited paper for the SAS User Group International Conference (SUGI 21), Chicago, March 1996.
• Hoyle, Lawrence E. More on Using SAS with WWW presented at the 1995 MidWest SAS Users Group Conference, Cleveland, October, 1995. (Awarded best poster).
• The Pentium FDIV bug - a Picture, November 1994.
• Hoyle, Lawrence E. Connecting SAS to the World Wide Web - Forms Across the Internet, presented at the 1994 MidWest SAS Users Group Conference, Omaha, September, 1994.
• Hoyle, Lawrence E. Connecting SAS to the World Wide Web - Forms Across the Internet - A Live Demonstration, presented at the Kansas City Area SAS Users Group Meeting, Kansas City, July 1994.
• Hoyle, Lawrence E. Modifying a PostScript Printer Definition to Produce a Negative Image for Typesetting, presented at the 1992 MidWest SAS Users Group Conference, Kansas City, October 1992.
• Hoyle, Lawrence E. Generating Thematic Maps with Proportional Shading and Graphical Annotation, presented at the 1991 MidWest SAS Users Group Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1991.

Teaching

Managing Research Data for the Social Sciences

This 2 to 3 credit hour graduate level course is designed to teach the skills necessary to read, reorganize, transform, clean, archive, and export simple or complex data. The primary tool used in the class is the SAS system. Structured Query Language (SQL) in both SAS and Microsoft Access receives a strong emphasis. Information for Summer 2008

SAS Enterprise Guide: Point and Click with SAS

This hands-on workshop is an introduction to Enterprise Guide, a Microsoft Windows program from SAS Institute that makes much of the functionality of the SAS system accessible through a graphical user interface. Offered through the KU Information Services Workshops.