The eScience Institute is pleased to announce data science office hours in the WRF Data Science Studio
Our program brings together expertise from the eScience data scientists, UW libraries, UW-IT, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, MathWorks, and Tableau to help triage your challenges in data-intensive science – including cloud computing – and steer you towards appropriate solutions.
We may offer immediate help, schedule a longer meeting with our team to understand the problem more deeply, or refer you to faculty on campus with relevant expertise.
In addition to direct assistance and triage, we see office hours as an opportunity to brainstorm about data-intensive research questions and approaches.
Office hours are offered weekdays between the first day of instruction and the last day of instruction each quarter. You may email for an appointment outside of these days, but know that providers’ response times may be delayed.
Office Hours By Program or Department
eScience Data Scientist Hours
We encourage questions from any area of computing in science, but tend to focus on data management, predictive analytics, and visualization.
Our goals in running this program are to help UW broadly excel at data-intensive science while also better understanding and cataloging the challenges UW researchers face in this area, which help us inform our own collaborative research priorities. We fully expect that some of these discussions will lead to productive collaborative research opportunities.
UW Librarian Hours
UW librarians provide support for finding and accessing data, data management planning, data organization, reuse of data, data sharing and storage, data citation, instruction, literature review, publications, citation management tools, and more.
Data Librarian:
Email for appointment
Research Computing
Office hours are offered to help researchers, UW IT professionals and students learn about options and opportunities in research computing. We can review UW-native systems such as Hyak, cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform, and national resources such as the XSEDE grid computing platform.
We are available to discuss cost, grant opportunities, data security, collaboration tools, system architecture and the array of tools, technologies, solutions and platforms available to help you focus on your research rather than on building or reinventing computing infrastructure. We can also help you connect with other research teams in the UW community with similar interests and experiences. Our first priority is to determine what you are working on and where your issues and challenges lie towards helping you find best solutions.
Hours:
Mondays, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and by appointment
UW-IT EIIA – Tableau & Analytics
The Enterprise Information Integration and Analytics (EIIA) team is able to provide information and support for Tableau and UW’s enterprise data offerings. Please come talk to us if you have questions about:
Tableau
- Licensing
- Use cases
- Technical issues
Enterprise Information Integration and Analytics
- What’s available?
- How do I get access?
- What tools can I connect with?
Hours
By appointment.
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Statistical Consulting
CSSS provides free statistical consulting to current UW faculty, staff, and students in affiliated departments. Our consultants offer guidance at any stage of a project from study design and planning through the selection statistical methods to the interpretation of model results. However, we recommend involving a statistician at the earliest stage possible, as this ensures the best scientific foundation for statistical analyses. Please note that CSSS consultants do not generally provide statistical software support nor do consultants run analyses for consulting clients.
Services
- Assistance with study planning and design
- Review of the analysis section of proposals and reports
- Advice on data visualization and presentation
- Assistance with the choice and application of statistical methods
- Development of specialized statistical methods
Hours
Mondays, 1 to 3 p.m.
VR Ulysses
VR Ulysses is a virtual reality based application for exploring and visualizing complex, high-dimensional data. If you are struggling to understand such a data set, try out our application, which is available in the WRF Data Science Studio!
During office hours, a Ulysses team member will be available to help you determine if VR data visualization is right for you, prepare your data for use with Ulysses (it’s not hard!), and guide you through a Ulysses experience.
Hours
Email for appointment.
UW-IT eScience Office Hours
Network Design & Architecture Data Science
Network Design & Architecture is responsible for:
- Developing network architectures and providing service standards and designs for wired and wireless networks and telecommunications.
- Researching and evaluating new network technologies.
- Providing advanced Tier 3 support and troubleshooting for all supported networks and network services.
Hours:
Email for appointment.
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Mathworks Hours
eScience has partnered with Mathworks in order to provide students, faculty and staff support for MATLAB, Simulink and Source Control (git).
MATLAB® is the high-level language and interactive environment used by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. It lets you explore and visualize ideas and collaborate across disciplines including signal and image processing, communications, control systems, and computational finance.
Simulink® is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems.
Hours
Email for appointment.
Office Hours By Person
eScience Data Scientists
Expertise
- Optimization
- Machine Learning
- Robust Modeling
- Statistical Inference
- Inverse Problems
Programming
- Matlab
- Julia
- R
- Python
Expertise
- Python
- Relational Databases / SQL
- Geospatial Analysis / GIS
- Hydrological Modeling
- Environmental Science
Expertise
Biology/bioinformatics
- Structural
- Systems
- Synthetic
- C
- R
- Python
- Shell scripting
- Relational databases / SQL
- Reproducibility and Open Science
Expertise
- Python
- Matlab
- Hydrology
- Analysis of water datasets
- Remote sensing, spatial analysis
- Hydrological modeling
Expertise
- Astrophysics and cosmology
- Fourier analysis
- Statistical and mathematical modeling
- Monte Carlo simulations
- Version control (Git/GitHub)
- Reproducibility and open science
Programming:
- Python
- SQL
- IDL
- Java
Expertise
- Python, R, Scala
- Machine learning
- Interpretable models
- Data visualization (D3.js, Leaflet, Shiny)
- Version control (Git/GitHub)
- Reproducibility and open science
Expertise
- C
- R
- Python
- Bash
- SQL
- Software design
- Web server design
- Reproducibility and open science
Expertise
- R/Python
- SQL
- Version Control (Git/GitHub)
- Statistical modeling
- Causal inference
- Data visualization
Expertise
- Metagenomics, Genome assembly and annotation
- C (including OpenMP)
- Javascript / Coffeescript
- Go (golang)
- Shell (Bash, Awk)
- NoSQL databases (esp. MongoDB)
- Visualization (eg. GraphViz, d3.js)
- Data compression
Ariel Rokem
Hours
Wednesdays, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Expertise
- Python
- Matlab
- Version control (git/github)
- Parametric and non-parametric statistics
- Neuroscience and biomedical imaging
- Behavioral Science
- Reproducibility and Open Science
Expertise
- R
- Python
- MATLAB
- Statistical Modeling & Inference
- Data Analysis
- Image Processing & Computer Vision
- Optimization
- Reproducibility and Open Science
Expertise
- Ecology and conservation
- Geospatial data and GIS
- Statistics
- R, Python, shell scripts
- Data storage and databases
UW Librarians
Expertise
- Data management plan guidance
- Data citation
- Data curation and archiving
- Data repositories
Expertise
- Data management plans
- Data curation, sharing and archiving
- Persistent identifier assignment
- Navigating funder mandates
- ResearchWorks Archive
Research Computing
Expertise
- Networking: Finding resources, collaborators, help
- Data science design patterns
- Data visualization
- Geophysics, emphasis on hydrosphere
- Remote sensing
- Embedded systems / IOT / ruggedizing
- Translating from research to public utility
- STEM education and public outreach
Expertise
- R
- Python
- High-performance computing (HPC)
- Reproducibility and open science
Expertise
- Cloud data migration and computing
- Earth Systems Modeling
- Data visualization
- Reproducible Solutions
Tim Swast
Hours
Tuesdays, 12 to 2 p.m. – email cloud-office-hours-uw@
Expertise
- Google Cloud Platform
- Software architecture
- Python
- Pandas
Amy Unruh
Hours
Tuesdays, 12 – 2 p.m. – email cloud-office-hours-uw@
Expertise
- Google Cloud Platform
- Data and analytics
- Machine learning
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Office Hours
Email Lori Clithero at loricli@amazon.com to schedule an appointment Monday through Friday.
Expertise
“Ask an AWS architect”: come to AWS office hours with your code, architecture diagrams, and your AWS questions at the ready! You will have access to deep technical expertise and will be able to get guidance on AWS architecture, usage of specific AWS services and features, cost optimization, and more.
UW-IT Enterprise Data and Analytics Participants
- Tableau
- Business Intelligence
- UW Enterprise Data
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Statistical Consulting
Expertise
- Bayesian data analysis
- Time series data analysis
- Linear models (and related)
- Experimental design
VR Ulysses
Expertise
- Virtual reality
- Astrophysics
- Numerical simulations
UW-IT Network Design & Architecture Data Science Participants
- UW Networking & Network Infrastructure
- Regional, National, & International R&E Network Facilities
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Big Data Transport
- Network Services for Researchers
- UW Networking & Network Infrastructure
- Regional, National, & International R&E Network Facilities
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Big Data Transport
- Network Services for Researchers
Mathworks
By appointment
In-office hours are currently cancelled, but you can still receive support by calling 508-647-7000 or emailing support@mathworks.com.