Highlights
Selected Upcoming Events
From the DataLab
CA 2022 Election Data Challenge Public Symposium
Register now and join us for our Challenge Finale Symposium on November 7th from 5-7pm! Registration is free and open to …Read More »
DataLab Launches New Micro-Credential with GradPathways
To help our research community discover and grow their data science skills and gain a competitive edge in today’s data-driven …Read More »
Winter 2023 Course Announcement: Adventures in Data Science (Quarter 1)
Adventures in Data Science is back in Winter 2023! DataLab directors Carl Stahmer and Pamela Reynolds will teach the first …Read More »
Call for 2022-2023 DataLab Affiliates
UC Davis DataLab is a cross-university effort that supports data science research and training. Our Affiliates program has been quiet …Read More »
New RLC: the Davis Julia Users Group
DataLab is pleased to announce a new Research and Learning Cluster for Fall 2022: the Julia Users Group! This group …Read More »
Upcoming Intro Workshops: Python & R
DataLab is offering two free workshop series this September and we invite you to apply! Introduction to Python is a …Read More »
Around Campus
Call for Proposals: Pilot Translation and Clinical Studies Program
The UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) requests applications in response to this call for Health Data Analytics …Read More »
2022 CITRIS Seed Funding Applications Open
DataLab welcomes the opportunity to partner with 2022 CITRIS Seed Funding applicants on project proposals, due October 10, 2022. The …Read More »
NIH Common Fund Hackathon
The NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem will be hosting a hackathon on NIH Common Fund data sets from May 9 – …Read More »
Data Points
Upcoming Winter 2022 Data Science Community Events
The DataLab's favorite data science events happening early 2022.Read More »
US Census Open Data for Good Grand Challenge
The US Census Bureau, through Challenge.gov, is hosting an open challenge to create new products or data analyses which address: …Read More »
UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Fair
UC Berkeley is hosting their annual Digital Humanities Fair.Read More »
Featured Project
Unlocking Insights from Public Data
A Case Study with COVID-19 Exposure Data
Throughout the pandemic we have seen a proliferation of public data reporting and sharing, which for many may have been their first exposure to dashboards and real-time data visualization. To help our community engage with public data and to illustrate how data science workflows and tools can be combined to create similar impactful visualizations, the DataLab team focused on a dataset that had not yet been visualized – campus COVID-19 exposure data. The UC Davis DataLab hopes the community finds this visualization useful as an exploration tool and example of the power of good data viz.
Affiliate Spotlights
M.V. Eitzel, UC Davis Postdoc
M.V. is a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science where she partnered with DataLab on the MPA Watch Project, an analysis of publicly collected coastal use data. The data gathered from such participatory science projects is often extraordinarily complex, which can make it difficult to use for decision making. “Data science techniques can offer new understanding and interpretation,” she notes. When M.V. isn't testing models, rock-climbing, or writing speculative fiction, she’s working to dismantle barriers to the use of community-derived data and harnessing data science in the pursuit of improved social and environmental outcomes.
Ryan Peek, UC Davis PhD & Postdoc
From frog trapping and gene sequencing, to coordinating the Davis R-Users Group while a DataLab postdoctoral affiliate, Ryan has made indelible contributions to UC Davis. "The ability to quickly take any sort of data and visualize it to tell a story is really powerful," he said in a recent interview about what he learned during his career at UC Davis. "I wish more people realized that it's worth the pain of learning a new computational language, because it does open doors."
Research & Learning Clusters
Users Group
