Research Support
DataLab supports and collaborates with researchers across UC Davis and beyond on transformative grant proposals, training opportunities, funded research, and exploratory projects. This ranges from new computational and data-driven projects in traditionally non-data-driven fields, to projects that require research-level innovations in data science itself.
There are several ways we can help you with your data-driven research.
Office Hours
The DataLab offers no-fee office hours during which university researchers can obtain help and advice on theoretical and technical matters relating to working with data and research computing.
Research Project Work
Dedicated project support: DataLab’s data scientists can assist you under our recharge model. Contact us with your research support needs to get started.
Incubators: DataLab works no-fee with UC Davis researchers on a quarter-long competitive basis to help accelerate research projects from idea to a viable pilot product in preparation for a grant proposal or other scholarly or creative work. Project calls are announced annually. Past projects have included pilot data analyses, webscraping, database design, software and chatbot development, and publication-quality visualizations.
Collaborations
DataLab collaborates with researchers across UC Davis to develop and implement transformative grant proposals. If you are interested in starting a collaboration with DataLab, and/or are interested in a letter of support from DataLab to assist with your grant proposal, please contact us.
TDM Studio Access
DataLab has access to one shared ProQuest Text Data Mining (TDM) Studio workspace for which UC Davis research teams can apply for access for a fixed term to access the platform and execute their work.
ProQuest’s Text Data Mining (TDM) Studio is a feature rich platform for finding relationships, patterns, and connections within and between text data sets. Its built-in collaboration tools allow research teams to work together in a common workspace, sharing data and analyses as they work. TDM Studio provides access to current and historical ProQuest content (news, journals, dissertations and theses, primary sources and more) as licensed by the home university. Researchers also have the option to upload their own data into the platform. TDM Studio provides a number of built in tools, and also allows scripting in R and Python for analyses and visualizations.
To express interest in using the UC Davis workspace on Text Data Mining (TDM) Studio, please contact us. Because the workspace is a shared environment and access can only be granted to one team of researchers at a time, there is often a waiting list. The workspace is reset in between research teams.