Teaching and research computing space designed to foster collaboration and innovation among students, faculty, and staff across all Tufts’ schools and departments. The Data Lab provides interdisciplinary methodological and technological support for a wide range of geospatial and data science applications, including GIS, data analysis and visualization, statistics, machine learning, digital humanities, text processing, and more.
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Tisch Library offers a wide range of data-related services to meet the research needs of students. Librarians can help find and manage data while the Data Lab provides significant support for data analysis and visualization projects.
The Tisch Library team is here to help with any data acquisition questions or problems that may arise. We can assist you in navigating any number of data platforms and repositories that may have the information you need. Below are a few recommended platforms for major datasets, but the library facilitates access to many more.
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Gold standard of curation, cleaning, and description of datasets. Includes government data as well as researcher-created data, including election data, opinion polls, more.
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Link to Ready Reference interface.
Interactive visualization tool that utilizes the decennial censuses and American Community Survey data.
GIS tool like Social Explorer but integrates other data sources from the Department of Homeland security, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S Census. Downloads available; its strength is recent data.
See also: Tisch Library's Guide to Social Science Data and Statistics
Managing your data, both the data files themselves and the documentation that goes with it, is an important part of the research process and the library is here to help. We can provide support for you in managing your data in a variety of ways:
Contact Elizabeth McCall for questions or assistance in any of these areas.