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Center for Data Discovery

Exploring Data, Technology and AI Across the Disciplines

Location: Penrose Library, 1st Floor (Room 133)
Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 7–9 p.m., Sept. 21 to Dec. 9
No appointment necessary. Just bring your laptop and your data!

Have a dataset that isn't behaving? Need guidance navigating data for a class assignment, research project or personal initiative? Whitman College’s Center for Data Discovery helps students from every major gain hands-on experience and support with quantitative and qualitative data.

What We Can Help You Do

  • Design and plan: Turn your research questions into structured data projects.
  • Prep and clean: Organize, reformat and clean up datasets for analysis.
  • Analyze and interpret: Work with new data tools and formats to draw sound, ethical conclusions.

Drop-In Support & Workshops

  • Project support: Connect with Student Data Fellows for peer-to-peer project support.
  • Workshops: Attend or host student and faculty sessions on emerging trends in data, tech and AI.

Data Support: What to Expect

Data Fellows aren’t traditional course tutors—they are student peer experts, paired each evening with complementary skills, to cover a wide spectrum of tools, software and methods. 

Whether you’re cleaning up messy data, tackling qualitative or quantitative analysis, or building visualizations, drop in with your questions and collaborate with our team.

Faculty Leadership

Mission Statement

The Center for Data Discovery’s mission is to nurture inclusive, robust data-related teaching, learning, scholarship, community engagement, and creative work for all members of the Whitman College community. Whether for research design, measurement, analysis, reporting, AI applications, or ethics, the center offers programming and peer guidance that fosters exploration, collaboration, and critical approaches to data-related work. We aim to bolster students’ confidence in tackling data puzzles of all complexities, both in the classroom and beyond.

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