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.
SpaceHACK for Sustainability - Coming Spring 2026
We are gearing up for another exciting global collaboration in Spring 2026! While this is not the official save the date just yet, we encourage you to check back regularly for updates on tracks, partners, and registration details.
Curious about what to expect?
Watch the 2025 SpaceHACK recap video to hear from students and see the impact from around the world!
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 [email protected] to request to be added to receive information on upcoming events and the links to the sessions.
Fall 2025 open project student showcase
We are excited to announce Fri Nov. 7 at 11:00 a.m. students will present their open project journeys and findings! Be ready to be blown away all while hanging out with participating student clubs and ASU Library staff!
Presentations:
Project 1: Predicting hospital re-admissions for patients with Type 2 diabetes
Project 2: Displaced voices: Using data science tools for housing justice
Explore, collaborate, and make an impact!
More details coming soon!
Fall 2025 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.
Open labs meet on the following Wednesday's at 10 a.m.
Sept. 3 - Open lab kickoff - But did it really? Correlation v causation.
Registration required
Sept. 24 - Uncovering Excel-lent insights: Pivot tables 101.
Registration required
Oct. 1 - Beyond the spreadsheet: A beginner's guide to Power BI.
Registration required
Oct. 15 - Introduction to AI and prompt engineering.
Registration required
Oct. 22 - CreateAI platforms.
Canceled
Oct. 29 - Breaking Into Data Science: Insights from the Field - Panel Interview.
Registration required
Nov. 5 - Introducing open and reproducible data for your research.
Registration required
Nov. 12 - Large language models for qualitative research.
Registration required
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] to request the recording.
Faculty, staff and students interested in an ongoing project, new collaboration or learning more may contact [email protected].