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.
SpaceHack for Sustainability 2025
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 datascience@asu.edu to request to be added to receive information on upcoming events and the links to the sessions.
Spring 2025 Open Project presentations
Support ASU students on Fri, April 18 11:30 am - 12 pm (virtual)
Join us for an exciting event where students will share their experience and findings on real-world data science and analytical projects in 10-15 minute presentations. The presentations will be on:
- Displaced Voices: Unearthing Eviction Inequities Through Data Science: This project takes a multifaceted approach to studying climate change, recognizing its multifaceted and interconnected impacts. The research focuses on three key areas: public perception and opposition to climate adaptation policies, challenges for international collective action, and the relationship between climate change and conflict.
- Green Fault Lines: Climate Change, Conflict, and Environmental Collective Action: In 2024, Maricopa County experienced its highest number of evictions in two decades. But evictions are more than just numbers—they reveal urgent, human stories about the change needed to achieve housing equity. Join our student volunteers as they share data-driven insights on evictions in Maricopa County and uncover hidden patterns that can inspire change.
Fall 2025 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.
Schedule to be announced Summer 2025.
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.