The Data Science Lab welcomes students, staff, and faculty of all disciplines and levels to collaborate on common projects. We host regular workshops and open lab sessions to provide mentorship, hands on exercises and networking opportunities to help you learn and use data science as a way to solve real-world problems.
Lab and workshop sessions
Our open labs provide an opportunity to understand concepts and develop skills in data science.
If you are not on our mailing list, please email kerri.rittschof@asu.edu to request to be added to receive information on upcoming events and the links to the sessions.
Summer 2024 workshops
The Unit for Data Science and Analytics at the ASU Library is pleased to offer two summer workshops designed to enhance your data science skills, regardless of your experience level or field of study.
Virtual 3-day AI Essentials workshop
We are also excited to request a call for applications for a 3-day virtual (Zoom) workshop, Essentials of AI, Generative AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs). This workshop is designed for a broader audience interested in understanding the fundamentals of AI, generative AI, and LLMs without requiring any prior coding knowledge.
Mon July 29 - Wed July 31, 10 - 11:45 am (AZ time)
Registration required.
Participants who attend and complete the 3-day in-person workshop will receive a letter of attendance/participation.
In-person 3-day Text analysis workshop
We are thrilled to request a call for applications for a 3-day in-person workshop, Foundations and Techniques of Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing. This in-person workshop is designed for researchers and professionals looking to integrate text analysis techniques and data into their projects. We will primarily use R for this workshop.
Wed June 26 - Fri June 28, 10 - 11:45 am (AZ time)
Registration closed.
Participants who attend and complete the 3-day in-person workshop will receive a letter of attendance/participation.
Fall 2024 virtual labs
The series will be a set of virtual instructional and participatory events to inform on various and necessary key skills in data science.
We will meet virtually Wednesdays from 10 -11 a.m. (AZ time).
Sep 4 - Fall semester kickoff, with the Team
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Sept 11 - Where DS meets data management, with Matthew Harp
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Sep 18 - A Brief Introduction to Python, with Abi Mercado Rivera
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Sep 25 - Your Story Using Data Visualization with Python, with Abi Mercado Rivera
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Oct 2 - AI and Large Language Models, with Namig Abbasov
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Oct 23 - Is Data Science Obsolete in the Age of AI? with Namig Abbasov
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Oct 30 - Data science tools can enhance your literary analysis, with Abi Mercado Rivera
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Nov 6 - Sentiment Analysis with Python, with Namig Abbasov
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Nov 13 - Discriminative AI and Convolutional Neural Networks, with Namig Abbasov
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Self-paced volunteer projects
Chest x-ray image classifier - Classify chest x-ray images into those with pneumonia and those without pneumonia
Keywords: Image processing, neural networks, Tensorflow
Mortality prediction in medical data - Attempt to outperform us at predicting mortality in medical data
Keywords: Medical data, machine learning, performance evaluation
Homelessness clustering - Execute various clustering algorithms on service activity of homeless people in Maricopa County, AZ
Keywords: Unsupervised learning, clustering algorithms, real-world data
Email datascience@asu.edu to request the resources and recordings for one or more of the volunteer projects.
Recorded workshops
Programming mini workshops
Learn some of the basics of data science in our virtual mini workshops. We will show you how to import data, build models, and interpret results using multiple techniques in the R and Python programming language.
R basics: Intro to programming in the R coding language
Python basics: Intro to programming in the Python coding language
Email datascience@asu.edu to request the recording(s).
Data Visualization Tableau workshop
The summer 2022 half day virtual workshop, we completed hands-on training in the basics of visualizing data with Tableau, from making charts to composing dashboards. No previous experience required, but you need your own laptop.
Email datasceince@asu.edu to request the recording.
Faculty, staff and students interested in an ongoing project, new collaboration, or learning more may contact datascience@asu.edu.