Digital Scholarship and Data Services is a unit that supports OU community members with their data needs. Consult with specialists and graduate assistants who are familiar with working with data, including management, analysis and visualization. With the ability to ask questions and receive guidance, Data Services: Research Data is the focal point to help faculty, researchers, and students work with their data.

The OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research, a division of OU Information Technology, helps undergraduates, grad students, faculty and staff to learn and use advanced computing in their science and engineering research and education.

An Oklahoma-based guide listing many of the resources below and more.

"Database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge."

How to find maps in the Youngblood Energy (Geology) Library in Sarkey's Energy Center.

Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.

Open Data Portal hosted by the publisher of ArcGIS.

"Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in December 2018. Native Land Digital is Indigenous-led, with an Indigenous Executive Director and Board of Directors who oversee and direct the organization. [...] Maps potentially function as colonial artifacts and represent a very particular way of seeing the world – a way primarily concerned with ownership, exclusivity, and power relations."

"Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space."

"SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Focusing on human interactions in the environment, SEDAC has as its mission to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and earth science data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between earth sciences and social sciences."

NASA

"Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics."

"The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the hosting institutions."

"Within the WorldPop project a range of open geospatial datasets are combined in a flexible regression tree framework to reallocate contemporary aggregated spatial population count data."

Sponsored by the USDA and Natural Resources Conservation Service

Commission for Environmental Cooperation

"An idea in 2007 to make geographic data easily accessible and understandable to policy makers grew into what is now PolicyMap: a data warehouse of over 50,000 indicators accessible through a state-of-the-art mapping and analytics platform."

"This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database." Provides map and infographics as well as raw data download as spreadsheet.

Search within the research areas on the site for GIS data specific to your needs.

Learn about America's communities through our data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts. For each, we cover topics like education, employment, health, and housing just to name a few.

Partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and a consortium that includes the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation. OU is also a consortium member so OU researchers can contact this branch for help with US Census data.

National Historic Geographic Information System
Hosted by University of Minnesota

Links to National Map, National Atlas and Geospatial One Stop

Each office has their own data centers.

"Redlining directed both public and private capital to native-born white families and away from African American and immigrant families. As homeownership was arguably the most significant means of intergenerational wealth building in the United States in the twentieth century, these redlining practices from eight decades ago had long-term effects in creating wealth inequalities that we still see today. Mapping Inequality, we hope, will allow and encourage you to grapple with this history of government policies contributing to inequality." The data are available as shapefiles and GeoJSON, and are searchable by description, transcription, city, and state.

"D4BL has worked to consolidate state level data to explore the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black people in the US. The D4BL COVID-19 Dataset captures state-level COVID-19 cases and deaths for Black people in the United States. D4BL established a team of volunteer data scientists to develop a codebase for automating the data extraction from state websites and storing it into this dataset."

"A group of Inuit experts, community researchers, and university researchers, have worked together over the past several years to document specialized Inuit knowledge about sea ice. Inuit elders and hunters are the local experts on sea ice. Through long term observation and experience with the sea ice, they have developed deep and rich understandings of the marine environment"

Powerful proprietary desktop software for GIS.

Click the blue "Access Software" button on the page. The OU Libraries link on the page is no longer functional as OU has moved to a single-sign-on licensing format for ArcGIS.

Free and open source programming environment. Requires installation of additional packages to enable most GIS applications.

Information and downloads for the Python programming language.

Open source Python 3.7 platform for data science.

A free and open-source GIS software including both a graphical user interface and options for accessing command line resources.

Step-by-step instructions and documentation for ArcGIS software including ArcMap.

Tutorials for ArcGIS produced by the software company. Request an OU-linked ESRI account using the OU licensing link above.

ESRI free video tutorial on scripting with Python for ArcGIS.

Links compiled by QGIS maintainers for QGIS training materials and tutorials in multiple languages.

r-spatial.org is a website and blog for those interested in using R to analyse spatial or spatio-temporal data.

"This book is about using the power of computers to do things with geographic data. It teaches a range of spatial skills, including: reading, writing and manipulating geographic data; making static and interactive maps; applying geocomputation to solve real-world problems; and modeling geographic phenomena."

This page features projects on which OU Libraries has assisted with GIS work and contains a link to the Digital Scholarship Lab for consultations.

A searchable question and answer website for GIS users. If you can't find your answer, you can create a reproducible example and ask your own question.

Project of the Cato Institute with data to explore from around the world.

NIEHS supported public data sets.

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds. (European Bioinformatics Institute)

CTD illuminates how environmental chemicals affect human health.

Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.

The NIEHS Environmental Genome Project is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative effort focused on examining the relationships between environmental exposures, inter-individual sequence variation in human genes and disease risk in U.S. populations.

International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology data sources.

Links to 12 science related data sets supported by NIEHS.

Directory of Open Access Repositories.

"This how-to guide covers the mechanics of data collection for applied qualitative research. It is appropriate for novice and experienced researchers alike. It can be used as both a training tool and a daily reference manual for field team members. The question and answer format and modular design make it easy for readers to find information on a particular topic quickly."