Research across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is enormously rich and varied, which means a corresponding richness and variability in the research data produced. Here are some examples of data collected.

John Stevenson talks about the University of Wisconsin Survey Center and its survey data:

John Stevenson, Excerpt 2

John again, talking about the Puerto Rico Census Project, which digitized a representative sample of census records from microfilm:

John Stevenson, Excerpt 3

The data Kevin Eliceiri works with largely take the form of images from microscopes:

Kevin Eliceiri, Excerpt 2

These images potentially offer biologists and medical researchers much more information than they once did:

Kevin Eliceiri, Excerpt 3

Monica Macaulay talks about the efforts she goes through to be able to locate information in her taped interview data:

Monica Macaulay, Excerpt 2

And finally, Janet Gilmore talks about how much folklore data comes from perhaps an unexpected source—undergraduates!

Janet Gilmore, Excerpt 2

Stay tuned for war stories about gathering and keeping data.