This dataset is associated with the paper: Generation of high-winding-number superfluid circulation in Bose-Einstein condensates Kali E. Wilson, E. Carlo Samson, Zachary L. Newman, and Brian P. Anderson. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A Sept 6, 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2109.12945 Data contains experimental absorption images of Bose-Einstein condensates in .tiff format. Data contains outputs from numerical simulation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in .mat files. Simulations were performed in MATLAB, and MATLAB code is provided to reproduce the relevant figures from the .mat files. See readme file for more detail.