UW Data Science Center

The goal of the UW Data Science Center is to lower the barrier to entry into productive analysis of data.

Additionally, we seek to foster the careers of our participants and to build the data science capacity in Wyoming, to the benefit of its residents (including businesses and governments.

Many of the activities of the Data Science Center take place in Aven Nelson room 210, where the center is housed.

Working Groups

  • General data science working group - we are meeting on Zoom from 1pm - 2pm (MST) on Fridays in the Fall 2022 semester

  • TechTalkLaramie - Laramie's evening TechTalks are an informal networking and social get-together with a focus on technology. Meets occur twice per month, and are generally on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Check out our calendar for upcoming meeting times and locations! The first Thursday of the month (usually) is an informal gathering for sharing ideas, solutions, experiences, and optionally a drink.

  • Former Groups

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Short Courses and Workshops

Mailing Lists

For communication beyond this webpage, we have two internal mailing lists. UW users are welcome to subscribe themselves at the following links:

  • data-science-center - This is our main list for communication about things of interest to the data science center

  • data-science-center-announce - This is a moderated list with low-frequency mailings that announce major events and activities

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Consultation - Data Science Offices Hours During the Academic Year

Person and Affiliation:

Location:

Availability:

Expertise:

Shannon Albeke

University of Wyoming

Agriculture Building C - Room 316 & 323

By Appointment

General computing with R, statistics and spatial analyses (R, ArcGIS, and other open source software).

Gordon Custer

University of Wyoming

Zoom

By Appointment

Amplicon sequence processing, general computing in R, general stats with a microbial ecology focus, basic shell scripts.

Jared Studyvin

University of Wyoming - Stats Dept.

Ross Hall - Room 333

Zoom

Monday: 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Tuesday: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Statistical consulting, R: statistical analyses, data wrangling, data visualization, JAGS.

Shay Howlin

WEST, Inc.

E-Meeting

By Appointment

Deep learning (computer vision and Artificial Neural Nets); Bayesian modeling; Ecological and epidemiological modeling and simulations; Python, R, Stan.

Internship Program:

WEST (an environmental and statistical consulting company founded in Wyoming) hosts paid data-science internships in partnership with Wyoming EPSCoR. These are suitable for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent alumni. See this page for more information.

Competitions:

We have considered hosting a local data science competition at UW. We would use this as an opportunity to learn form one another, with in person meetings and discussions of the projects and entries, including by judges and attendees who are data science professionals. Additionally, some students are interested in Kaggle and other competitions. More information in on the Data Science Competitions page.

Other Data Science Topics:

Knowledge Base:

Confluence

  • How do we share code and Rmarkdown output?

Cluster and Other Research Computing

  • How to use git

  • How to get access to cluster computing resources at UW

  • How to ssh to the cluster computer (Teton, teton.uwyo.edu ???)

  • How to submit jobs to the shared queue for the cluster computing with SLURM

Statistical Modeling

  • Example codes for JAGS models and their use from R, with rjags

  • NeuralNet for Titanic survivorship data