DataLab offers free in person drop-in office hours during which UC Davis researchers can obtain data science help and advice on working with their data. During these short, just-in-time sessions we meet with faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, and staff from all domains across the University. Depending on the nature of your question and our availability, it may be possible to schedule a longer follow-up consultation after your office hours visit.

Appointments are not required. Please complete the brief office hours intake form ahead of time to help us connect you with the right expert for your question.

Common office hours help topics include:

• Open Source Programming (R, Python, Julia, etc.)
• Reproducible research computing and data science
• Responsible and ethical data science
• Data gathering, organization, databases, and experimental design
• Data analysis, statistics, and exploration
• Data visualization
• Machine learning and neural networks
• Text mining and natural language processing
• Geospatial sciences
• Remote and high performance computing
• Computational pedagogy
• … and more!

Please note that drop-in office hours are not offered during University holidays, academic breaks and finals week. Summer schedule varies. DataLab may only be accessed during Shields Library's business hours. Click here for detailed directions to DataLab.

Note: We are unable to provide support for assigned coursework (homework assignments, class projects, etc.) during office hours. If you need such help please contact your instructor or TA for assistance. If you need help with technical problems such system administration and hardware issues, check out the the UC Davis ServiceHub and/or contact your departmental IT.