This session will cover the theoretical and practical aspects of surveys and survey design. Topics will include: pre-survey design, actualizing a survey, analyzing the results, why and when surveys are appropriate, determining the survey audience, existing Yale surveys, and some survey tools popular at Yale including Survey Monkey, ClassesV2, QuestionMark, Sharepoint, Qualtrics and ITS provided solutions. Staff from the Stat Lab will touch on some of the salient topics from their Survey Design workshop (free to the Yale community) and discuss the expertise available to the Yale community with quantitative and qualitative (text) analysis and tools such as SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys and NVivo. Presenters will be Themba Flowers, Manager of the Social Science Stat Lab and Scott Matheson, Web Manager at the Yale University Library.