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Services and Support

Facilitation/Consulting:

  • CHTC’s Research Facilitation team empowers researchers to utilize computing to achieve their goals. The Research Facilitation approach emphasizes teaching researchers skills and methodologies to manage & automate workloads on resources like those at CHTC, the campus, or across the world.
  • The SSCC’s statistical consultants provide consulting and training for social science researchers on statistical and data science topics. They are experts on the most popular statistical software and can answer many methodological questions. They also act as research computing facilitators, assisting researchers in using the SSCC’s computing resources. The SSCC has an extensive statistical computing knowledge base.
  • The Data Science Hub Facilitators can recommend learning pathways and project strategies, help troubleshoot code, and liaise contacts with collaborators and data science experts.
  • The Statistical Consulting Group, part of the Department of Statistics provides UW faculty, staff, and students with assistance in all the statistical aspects of research, from project development through publication.
  • Research Cyberinfrastructure at DoIT: The RCI team partners with research leadership and academic units to provide a robust, secure, and evolving infrastructure that enables the work of researchers in all disciplines and aligns with UW–‍Madison’s research mission and strategic priorities .


Software development:

  • The Data Science Institute has a professional staff of data scientists and research software engineers that work with researchers to develop tools for research.
  • The Open Source Program Office within the Data Science Institute provides training for software development and supports internships focusing on open source software products connected to research.
  • The TRAD group in DoIT partners with instructors, researchers and other members of the university community to design and implement innovative custom software solutions.


Data science services:

  • The Data Science Institute’s data scientists and research software engineers collaborate with researchers to build solutions tailored to their needs. DSI works with researchers and teams across campus to provide data science capacity and increase the competitiveness of proposals. They can partner with researchers on proposals for extramural funding with a data science component.
  • Research Data Services is a free resource for anyone on the UW-Madison campus that provides consultations, best practice information, and education and training on research data management and sharing. We help make your data citable, open, and publicly accessible.


Workshops and training:

  • The Data Science Hub offers regular trainings (including Carpentries workshops) around fundamental data science and computational skills.
  • As part of their Grad Student Support Series, the UW-Madison Libraries offer short workshops that teach programming skills for researchers.
  • The Social Science Computing Cooperative’s training program provides introductions to statistical software and fundamental data wrangling skills, plus a variety of applied statistics and data science topics.