Research Resources

The Holland Computing Center at NU

The Holland Computing Center provides the University of Nebraska with the fastest computing resources in the state! Located in the Schorr Center on City Campus, HCC staff are available to help students and faculty manage data and run complex or large-scale simulation studies. Two high-performance clusters are available for researchers at the University of Nebraska, in most cases for free.

Methodology & Evaluation Research Core Facilitiy

The Methodology and Evaluation Research Core Facility (MERC) is a service center at UNL under the Office of Research and Economic Development. MERC provides evaluation and data related support for UNL, as well as local, state, and national clients. The faculty and staff within MERC have decades of experience in human data collection and analysis, with particular expertise in survey design, qualitative methods, and data visualization.

UNL Big Data Initiative

As data sets get larger and more readily available disciplines are striving to extract meaning from every possible piece of data. “Analytics”, the art of drawing insightful conclusions from patterns in data, was the precursor to a new universe of prediction and analysis where the data sets keep getting larger, processing power keeps getting faster, and the tools to interpret raw information become more sophisticated and precise. The Big Data Initiative at UNL is an interdisciplinary group of statisticians, computational scientists, mathematicians, bioinformatics and business analytics researchers, and natural resources leaders focused on solving these problems and potentials.

R Statistical Software

R is a free language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is available on a wide variety of platforms, including Windows and MacOS. R provides an ever-expanding library of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classic statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques.

• To download and install R go to The Comprehensive R Archive Network
• After installing R, you may wish to also install RStudio an integrated development environment (IDE) for R.
  • To download and install RStudio go to Download RStudio

Research Data Management & Sharing

Information on resources available to help researchers with data management and sharing can found on the University Libraries website.