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.
We Provide 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 Accomplishing
SSDS offers a variety of free workshops every semester on Python, R, Tableau, digital humanities, GIS/mapping, scholarly publishing, Qualtrics, data management plans, and other applications related to research and scholarly output.
To view and register for our Fall 2025 series and standalone workshops, visit: tiny.cc/ssdsworkshop
For additional workshop inquiries or course instruction, email us individually or collectively at ssds@olemiss.edu.
- 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
Contact Us
Visit the Scholar Support and Data Services office in Room 221 at the J.D. Williams Library, call, or email us. You can also contact us individually.
Scholar Support and Data Services
Room 221 - J.D. Williams Library
Meet the Scholar Support and Data Services Team
Adam Clemons
- Assistant Professor of Scholar Support and Data Services
Sian Lee
- Assistant Professor for Scholar Support and Data Services
Savannah Kelly
- Associate Head and Associate Professor of Scholar Support and Data Services
Mahek Sota
- Application Analyst I
Shelby Watson
- Assistant Professor of Scholar Support and Data Services
Brian Young
- Interim Assistant Dean of Public Services and Head and Associate Professor of Scholar Support and Data Services