California Election 2022 Data Challenge

Get Help (Mentors & Slack)

Domain Mentor Q&A Sessions

Experts from the UC Davis community have volunteered to meet with participating teams periodically throughout the Data Challenge. Zoom links for these sessions will be distributed in advance through the Challenge’s Slack workspace.

Thank you to all of the UC Davis faculty, staff and other volunteers who helped mentor this year’s challenge teams.

Mentors

• Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor, Statistics
• Colin Cameron, Professor, Economics
• Shizhe Chen, Assistant Professor, Statistics
• Katherine Florey, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, School of Law
• Dahlia Garas, Research Program Director, Plug-In Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, Institute of Transportation Studies
• Peter Kramlinger, Visiting Assistant Professor, Statistics
• Can Lee, Assistant Professor, Statistics
• David Michalski, Social and Cultural Services Librarian, Shields Library
• Christy Navarro, Health Informatics Research Data Officer, Clinical and Translational Science Center
• Adam Siegel, Languages and Literatures Librarian, Shields Library
• Amy Studer, Health Sciences Librarian, Blaisdell Medical Library
• Aaron Tang, Professor of Law, School of Law
• Megan Van Noord, Health Sciences Librarian, Carlson Health Sciences Library
• Xiner Zhou, Ph.D. Candidate, Biostatistics

UC Davis research librarians are also available for support with locating data sources and framing research questions.

Technical Mentor Office Hours

DataLab’s data science team hosts weekly drop-in office hours on Wednesdays from 1-2:30 pm. They can provide support with developing research questions and approaches, troubleshooting your code, and finding learning resources. To join the virtual office hours see this page for details and how to obtain the Zoom link.

DataLab’s technical experts at these drop-in sessions include:

• Wesley Brooks, Research Data Science
• Oliver Kryelos, Virtual Reality Data Specialist
• Pamela Reynolds, DataLab Associate Director
• Tyler Shoemaker, Postdoctoral Scholar of Digital Humanities
• Michele Tobias, Geospatial Data Specialist

Final Check-in with Challenge Organizers

A final optional check-in session for all teams is scheduled for Friday, October 21st on Zoom from 10am-noon. The Challenge organizers will go over guidelines for project submissions to the virtual showcase and answer any questions. Materials and Zoom link will be distributed in advance through the Challenge’s Slack workspace.

Challenge Slack Workspace

All registered individuals and teams are invited to join the Challenge’s Slack workspace. Check out channels #getting_started, #resources, #team_formation and #help_me to ask for and share helpful tips.

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