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Design your project

Define your data questions. Make a plan for getting started. Document your process and make metadata to keep your research data useful for the future. Write a Data Management Plan (DMP).

Learn to work with data

Learn more about working with data by attending a workshop. Or talk to us about planning a workshop for your group or class. Partner with us to hold a Data or Software Carpentry workshop.

You may find more workshop information on these pages:

Get data

Search for, create, convert, or collect data for research. Stanford Libraries has extensive experience with contracts and licensing related to data purchases. Please contact us with any questions you have about data licensing, vendor contracts, or whether we can purchase the data that you need.

Data tools

 Get started analyzing your data. We have specialized software and hardware tools to use in your analysis and experts who can help you.

Share & preserve your data

Preparing your data and metadata for reporting, publication, and sharing.

Data Management Services
Assisting Stanford researchers with the organization, management, and curation of research data to enhance its preservation and access now and into the future.
Social Science Data and Software
Helping you find and use research data, including assistance with quantitative and qualitative software and programming languages like R and Python. You can reach us via email, by appointment, or during our walk-in hours.
Stanford Geospatial Center
Supporting the use of geospatial data, technologies, and methodologies in research and teaching at Stanford University.
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