Open lab and workshops

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. 

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
Registration closed 

Sep 11 - Where DS meets data management, with Matthew Harp
Registration closed 

Sep 18 - A Brief Introduction to Python, with Abi Mercado Rivera
Registration closed 

Sep 25 - Your Story Using Data Visualization with Python, with Abi Mercado Rivera 
Registration closed

Oct 2 - AI and Large Language Models, with Namig Abbasov
Registration closed 

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).

Oct 23 - Is Data Science Obsolete in the Age of AI? with Namig Abbasov
Registration closed 

Oct 30 - Data science tools can enhance your literary analysis, with Abi Mercado Rivera
Register today.

Nov 6 - Sentiment Analysis with Python, with Namig Abbasov
Register today.

Nov 13 - Discriminative AI and Convolutional Neural Networks, with Namig Abbasov
Register today.

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.