SSDS (Social Science Data and Software) data specialists provide support for Stanford's faculty, staff and students who wish to find and get local and virtual social science data resources for research and instruction.  Software consultants provide support in the use of the most popular quantitative (statistical) software such as SPSS, SAS and Stata, and qualitative software, NVivo and ATLAS.ti.  Data specialists and software consultants provide assistance and information for researchers who are at various stages in their project.