Data & Digital Scholarship Services

DDSS provides research support to facilitate data-focused research and teaching across the university

How We Can Help

Email help: datahelp@gmu.edu. We respond to emails M-F, excluding holidays and university closures

Consultations: View our list of consultants and schedule a consultation

Workshops: View our workshop schedule or request a workshop for your group

Class instruction: Contact us to arrange for a class visit

DDSS Lab: See below

Data & Digital Scholarship Services Lab

Data & Digital Scholarship Services Lab, located in 2701 Fenwick Library, has workstations with supported software, expanded memory, and access to expert assistance. Lab use is for current George Mason University students, faculty, and staff. The Lab is open by appointment only. Email datahelp@gmu.edu or one of our consultants to make an appointment to use the Lab.

Major supported software

Geospatial: ArcGIS, Google Earth Pro, QGIS
Qualitative: NVivo, QDA Miner Suite
Statistical: SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, Excel
And more: Tableau, Qualtrics, RedCap, Open Science Framework (OSF), Gephi, Voyant, Omeka

Consult our list of software and digital tools.

There are additional campus computing labs and the Patriot Virtual Computing & Labs (PVCL). Nearly all DDSS software is available for out-of-lab use, as much of it is freely available or on the PVCL.