Data Experience Programs & Services
The Data Experience Lab (DXL) is the NC State University Libraries’ community hub for data science, visualization, and digital research and scholarship. It offers collaboration space, computing resources, and support for anyone in the NC State community working with data, creating visualizations, using geospatial methodologies, or employing new digital methods and approaches. The DXL staff has expertise in various areas and can help you learn new skills or develop a project. We’d love for you to be part of our community!
Get Help With Data
Get help with data science, visualization, digital research and scholarship topics, and tools such as R and Python.
We usually reply within 2 weekdays (Mon–Fri).
Usually available Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm.
Book a 30-minute appointment on data science topics.
Projects
Collaborate with us! We welcome collaboration proposals on projects such as geospatial analysis and mapping, web visualizations, Open Educational Resources (OER), and textual analysis. Let us know what you’re working on, what questions you have, and how you would like to collaborate.
The Data Experience Lab (DXL) is the NC State University Libraries’ community hub for data science support and learning, as well as advanced desktop computing. We conducted a usability study to understand how students discovered the DXL…
A media-rich, web-only monograph examines the "fantasies of technological utopianism as well as anxieties about the destruction of the environment and the dehumanizing impact of modernity."
Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva partnered with the Open Knowledge Center to experiment with various modes of increasing the potential for her work to have impacts outside of higher education. As a pilot project, this public impact strategy offers a test case…
Instruction Services
Instructors, we can help your students learn how to find data, analyze data, and create charts or maps. Request a custom, hands-on instruction session or collaboration on the development of activities or assignments.
Sample Instruction Projects
Mapping for Habitat for Humanity
Caldwell students create maps that help Habitat for Humanity communicate about regional housing needs to local leaders.
Community Programs
OPEN Incubator
A research development program designed to advance a project from idea to proof-of-concept. Facilitators guide participants through a cohort-based collaborative experience that introduces open research principles and strategies. Apply for the next cohort.
Coffee & Viz
A forum for NC State researchers to share their visualization work. Presented by the Libraries in one of our state-of-the-art high-tech spaces, Coffee & Viz programs are free and open to the public.
Computing Resources
Our reservable PC and iMac Pro workstations, located in both the Hill Library's Data Experience Lab and the Hunt Library's Dataspace, are optimized for data-intensive work with high-end graphic processors, enough RAM and storage for large projects, and software for data analysis and visualization.
Spaces
Staff
- Head, Data & Visualization ServicesData & Visualization Services, Data & Visualization Instruction, Data Science Consulting
- Director, Open Knowledge Center & Head of Information PolicyCopyright and Fair Use, Author's Rights and Open Access, Open Pedagogy, Open Education and Alt-Textbooks, Managing Your Scholarly Identity, Managing Your Research Data
- Lead Librarian for GISGeographic Information Systems (GIS), Maps, Finding Data, Government Information
Mara Blake
Will Cross
Jeff Essic