Our Expertise
DataLab provides cutting-edge expertise in data science to enable qualitatively new research.
Our interdisciplinary team of professional data scientists, researchers and faculty specializes in:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR)
- Bibliometrics
- Bioinformatics (RNA-seq, microbiome, single-cell omics, variant analysis, spatial omics, etc.)
- Computer Vision
- Data Ethics
- Experimental Design
- Geospatial Analyses
- Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Text Mining (TM)
- Software Development
- Statistics and Bayesian Inference
- Quantitative and Qualitative Survey analytics
We provide training, advice and support services on all aspects of data-enabled research including:
- Developing research questions and grant proposals
- Using Data Science tools and technologies (including open source software for research computing)
- Obtaining and accessing data (e.g., from Web pages, APIs, databases)
- Structuring data for analysis (e.g., relational databases, NoSQL, text search engines, Hive, Pig)
- Data management, curation, security and privacy
- Approaches for cleaning and transforming data
- Data analysis via statistical modeling and machine learning
- Visualization for exploratory data analysis and publication graphics
- Parallel, remote and high performance computing (HPC)
- Reproducibility and provenance
- Responsible and ethical data science practices
- and other Data Science education and implementation resources at UC Davis