Working with Research Data
Assistance with Statistics & Informatics at OU
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- Data Analytics and VisualizationScience Librarian Claire Curry has created the Data Analytics and Visualization research guide to connect OU library users to local services, data sources, analysis tools, and sources of literature on experimental design, software, and evidence synthesis across many disciplines.
- Data Services @ OU LibrariesDigital 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.
- OU Supercomputing Center for Education and ResearchThe 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.
Physics & Astronomy Datasets
Astronomy
- Space Telescope data"The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes is an astronomical data archive focused on the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared. MAST hosts data from over a dozen missions like Webb, Hubble, TESS, Kepler, and in the future Roman."
- NASA Open Data PortalDATA.NASA.GOV is NASA's clearinghouse site for open-data provided to the public.
- Extragalactic databaseThe NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an ongoing astronomy project that has been working since 1998 to make a detailed map of the universe, including our Milky Way galaxy."
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center)The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
- Astrophysics Source Code Library(Not data - open source analysis tools) "The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry for source codes of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists, including solar system astronomers, and lists codes that have been used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications."
Physics
- arXiv as data"To help make the arXiv more accessible, we present a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more."
- United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network"The United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN) helps ensure that data for and about Indigenous nations and peoples in the US (American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians) are utilized to advance Indigenous aspirations for collective and individual wellbeing. USIDSN’s primary function is to provide research information and policy advocacy to safeguard the rights and promote the interests of Indigenous nations and peoples in relation to data."
Particle Physics
- CERN Open DataExplore more than three petabytes of open data from particle physics!
Gravitational Waves
- LIGO"The Gravitational-Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release, archive, and serve gravitational-wave data to the broader scientific community and to the public, and to provide the information and tools necessary to understand and use the data."
Please contact your STEM Librarians if there are data sets that you think would be valuable to others in your field and do not appear on this list.
Looking for more information? Check out the Data Analytics and Visualization guide!