Data Services for Faculty
We will attempt to assist you in whatever ways we can! If you would like to make an appointment to talk in person, email data@reed.edu.
Below are data services designed to help faculty in their research and teaching.
Research Assistance
If there's something you personally want to learn or need for your research, we can perhaps give you some guidance. We frequently help with coding, data scraping, transforming spreadsheets to be usable, limited statistical consulting, Github basics, and more. If you find yourself doing a repetitive task and are thinking "I bet there's an easier way...", please contact us. You can email data@reed.edu or Josie Griffin (griffinj@reed.edu).
In Class Workshops
A team member can come to your class to lead a data or analysis related workshop. These can be simple presentations or we can create lab materials to work through with students. Previous workshops have covered:
- data wrangling
- data analysis
- data visualization
- coding in R
- vibe coding with Google Colab
Data Literacy Instruction
Members of the Data @ Reed Team are available to meet with students in classes, labs, or informal workshops to help them learn:
- how to find existing datasets
- research data management
- Generative AI guidelines and literacy
Data Management Plans
Most research funders, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), now require the inclusion of a data management plan (DMP) with a grant proposal. DMP requirements vary by funding agency, but are usually a 1-2 page document that covers:
- Data and materials produced
- Standards, formats, and metadata
- Roles and responsibilities
- Dissemination methods
- Policies for data sharing and public access
- Archiving, storage, and preservation
Public Access Compliance
Most government agencies, including the NSF and NIH, require that research outputs like articles and data be made available to the public.
Librarians can help you by:
- determining what research outputs need to be made publically available
- resolving reporting issues in NIHMS, NSF-PAR, or Research.gov
- advising on copyright issues
Archiving Data
Librarians can help you share, archive, and preserve your research data by:
- locating the appropriate subject-specific or general data repository
- reviewing licenses and consulting on open data
- preparing the datasets, metadata, and related documentation files
- depositing the data and generating a persistent identifier (e.g., a DOI)
- advising on data citation
Website or App Creation
If you need a simple website for a classroom activity, we can likely build that for you. These typically are not for longterm use, moreso for short-term projects. Examples include:
- an interactive optimization game for a psychology class
- a dashboard for showing genotypes based on allele frequencies for a biology class