Data Management & Analysis

Library Database Finder: Databases licensed for the UChicago Community.

Data and Statistics: International, national, and state data sources.

Spatial Data: Spatial Data from the Library Collection and beyond.

Image Databases: Image databases licensed for the UChicago community.

UChicago's Digital Image Collections: Library-hosted digital image collections.

Corpora Collections: Text collections for text and data mining, including newspapers, books, citations, metadata, primary sources, and government documents.

In addition to these resources, it may be useful to contact your subject specialist to learn about media, and corpora for your research and teaching. When a suitable dataset is not available through our collection or open access source, librarians will consider purchasing data that meet the Data Collection Development Policy criteria.

Librarians are available to consult on creating and cleaning data and media:

• Tabular Data
• Spatial Data
• Digital Media
• Digitizing Library Print Material
• Digitizing Print Material for Research

Explore text and data mining guides and platforms:

• Text and Data Mining Guide
• Resources for Digital Humanities Projects: Analysis Tools for Text
• ProQuest TDM Studio
• JSTOR Labs Constellate

Discover tools and tutorials for data analysis:

• Data Software Tutorials: R Studio, Stata, Tableau Public, Python
• GIS Platforms: ArcGIS suite, QGIS, GeoDa available in the Map Collection (Regenstein Library 370) and GIS Hub (Crerar Library)
• Software on Library Workstations: Excel, R Studio, Stata, Matlab, and CD/DVD burning and playback

• Writing a Data Management Plan
• Data Management Practices
• Managing Research Documents
• Store Data
• Share Data
• UChicago Sensitive Data Usage Guide