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To get access to the various data we have licensed from L2, please follow these steps:
Different folks at NYU have different access to different products from L2 Political Data. Refer to the chart chart to understand to what you have access!
Primary status at NYU | Full raw data | VoterMapping Interface | Anonymized sample |
---|---|---|---|
Undergraduate student | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Undergraduate student - completing a capstone | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Graduate student | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Staff | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Faculty | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Visiting scholar/scholar-in-residence | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Non-NYU collaborator | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Users who apply for access will receive an account with a unique username and password via email that can be used to sign in here: https://www.l2datamapping.com/account/login.
Users who apply for and are granted access will connect to a folder that contains state-by-state files, which include two tab separated value files (.tab) for each state that can be joined together by a unique identifier. Access to the files is provisioned via mountable storage in NYU's Research Workspace (RW). In order to access the raw data file, you will need to establish a connection to the mountable storage space that has been allocated to you on Research Workspace. In order to do this, refer to the following set of instructions. For off-campus access, you must use the VPN.
smb://storage.rcs.nyu.edu/l2_political
.These are available to anyone with an NYU login. For example, see the random sample of voters in New York State in NYU's Spatial Data Repository.