DataSquad International
Facilitating the Support of Data Processes Around the World.
Sustainable
Replicable
Reproducible
Data Wrangling & Sculpting
– Managing the mechanics of accessing data (APIs)
– Setting up a Dataverse, a course space in Tableau Online, Git or GitHUB repository
– Consulting on data programming languages and strategies (Python, R, Java, etc.)
– Data cleaning processes and constructing code-based solutions to data cleaning problems.
– Identifying metadata strategies and tools.
Database Design & Development
– Gathering data sets from multiple sources & handing them back over to the researcher
– Working with data capture or management tools like Qualtrics, Google Forms, Filemaker Pro, Acrobat Pro, etc.
– Accessing data warehouses using SQL or other language support
Data Visualization
– Creating data visualizations with tools such as Tableau, R & GGplot, R & Shiny, Python, Excel, Google charts, Plotly & other web-based tools
– Consulting on data visualization strategies
– In collaboration with the QRC tutors, support curricular projects using data visualization techniques
– Create publication-ready data visualizations for publications by campus authors
Reproducibility Testing & Data Lifecycle Management
– Verifying code and data completeness to assure reproducibility (in client-produced prepublications & assignments)
– Convert proprietary statistical code and output into open-source language and non-proprietary/archival formats
– Provide support in metadata documentation; codebook and data dictionary production
– Helping researchers understand how to manage their data through each phase in the lifecycle of their research
Sample Projects
Team Leaders
Carleton College
Paula Lackie
UCLA
Tim Dennis
UTM
Elizabeth Parke
GESIS
Deborah Wiltshire
Make Your Research and Work Life Easier
The DataSquad can grapple with simple to thorny data tasks and problems on your behalf.
If there is a more efficient and programmatic way to address your goal, we will figure it out and lend a hand.
