Service Hours:
All branches (and spaces therein) are currently closed. Please see the COVID-19 Library page for more information.
If you have a data-related question, please email martin.chandler [at] mcgill.ca (Martin Chandler), the Data Services Librarian.
martin.chandler [at] mcgill.ca (Email us)
2nd floor, Humanities and Social Sciences Library (McLennan building, Room M2-37A)
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C9
The Data Lab is located on the second floor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (McLennan building, Room M2-37A). The Lab is open and available to users working with data who require the use of specialized data software. There are fourteen workstations available. A list of the various software programs installed on the workstations is posted below.
Hours
The Data Lab is open the same hours as the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. As well, there are student assistants on duty to assist with any data access or use needs; see the right sidebar for service hours.
Equipment and software
The following specialized software programs are available (14 workstations):
- ArcGIS 10.5
- Atlas.ti 7.1
- Beyond 2020 7.0
- ChemOffice 2015
- Filezilla 3.45.1
- Google Earth 7.3.2
- IBMSPSS Statistics 24
- MATLAB R2018b
- NVivo 12 (Stations 10, 11, and 12)
- R
- RStudio 1.2.5
- SAS 9.4
- STATA MP 15.1
- Wolfram Mathematica 11
- Zotero
At the MacDonald Campus Library, both SAS and ArcGIS are available on all computers in the eZone, and Stat/Transfer is available on computers: MACD22, MACD25, MACD47, MACD48, MACD49.
Statistical support and analysis services
For assistance choosing statistical techniques and performing statistical analyses, please contact one of the following campus service points:
- Statistical Consulting Service for numeric data
- Geographic Information Centre for GIS and remote sensing
