Data & GIS Lab

Welcome!

The Data & GIS Lab serves two distinct but interrelated functions here at UC San Diego.  On the data front, the Lab offers access to statistical software as well as to datasets not available from the Social Science Data Services website, or elsewhere.  On the GIS front, the Lab serves as the primary campus base for GIS services, access to GIS data and software, and the only place with staff to provide GIS assistance.
 
The workstations in the Lab have both statistical software and GIS software. To better serve you, the Lab contains reference and circulating books for both data and GIS.  Check the shelves and spines of the books to determine the resource is something you can check out or have to use in the Lab.

> Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

> Social Science Data Services

What is in the Lab?

• The majority of the workstations in the Lab have both statistical software and GIS software.  (Use of GIS software is limited to current members of the UC San Diego community only per our license requirements.

• Username and password changes each quarter and is available through Lab staff, the SSHL Reference Desk or by emailing t2hughes @ ucsd.edu or bvejvoda @ ucsd.edu.

• All computers are physically below the desk in the middle of the table.  Each monitor and CPU has a small colored circle sticker on it so you can easily figure out which machine goes with which monitor.

• All have a drive where you can save your work temporarily in an unsecure environment.  On the existing data/GIS workstations, the drive where you save to is drive D.  For more details, see this page.

• All printing goes to the Imprints printer in the SSHL Reference area.  This requires that you have an Imprints card as there is no free public printer in the Lab.

• Use of the 42” plotter is limited to GIS and map projects at the discretion of the GIS Coordinator and Map Librarian respectively.

• The Lab contains reference and circulating books for both data and GIS.  Be sure to check the shelves and spines of the books to determine the resource is something you can check out or have to use in the Lab.