Scholar Support and Data Services
Scholar Support and Data Services (SSDS) provides collaborative, interdisciplinary opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage and enhance their knowledge in the areas of data science, data visualization, digital humanities, and scholarly communication.
Scholar Support and Data Services provides collaborative opportunity
Faculty, staff, and students can engage and enhance their knowledge in the areas of data science, data visualization, digital humanities, and scholarly communication.
See the work SSDS is doing
- Teaching R and Python workshops on data wrangling, data visualization, automation, and reproducibility
- Working with scholars who want to transition from proprietary statistical software to open software
Get help with data analysis, research design, statistical methods, and machine learning from faculty with expertise in applied statistics and computational social science.
Includes guidance on survey design, data cleaning, software selection, visualization, statistical modeling, and inference.
Support varies by faculty member—review availability and areas of focus when booking an appointment
The DH Lab is a service provided by the University Libraries that supports research, teaching, and community engagement at the intersection of computational technology and the humanities.
Research guidance and support include research design, tool selection, data clean-up, data analysis, mapping, visualization, and dissemination of findings.
Teaching guidance and support include curriculum design, assignment development, and in-class instruction.
For more information and to book an appointment, visit the DH Lab page by clicking the button below.
- Working with scholars throughout the publishing process: rights retention, journal selection (e.g., avoiding predatory publishers), open access, research impact
- Advocating for a sustainable and equitable scholarly ecosystem
- Communicating with faculty across campus and within the library to understand research and resource needs
- Working with publishers and vendors and establishing sustainable approaches to collection building that enable the library to support all disciplines and research within our existing budget capacity
Visit us in our temporary office in the Jesse L. White Room (221) at the J.D. Williams Library. Call us on our shared line at 662-915-5877 or email us collectively at ssds@olemiss.edu. You can also contact us individually: