The Galter DataLab is a research support core focused on collaborative innovation, training & development, and connecting faculty, staff, and students in the Feinberg School of Medicine to data-related resources here at Northwestern. We engage the research community by teaching, hosting, and sponsoring training events and workshops that promote best practices related to data management, reproducibility, compliance with data sharing policies, and open science, as well as a range of associated technical topics. Through our DataClinic service, we provide consultation and training for all stages of the research data life cycle and link researchers with experts who can help to resolve issues.
Features and Benefits
Areas of support include:
- Research data topics
- Collection & Management
- Cleaning & Organization
- Analysis
- Visualization
- Preservation and sharing
- Data Management and Sharing Plans
- Related policies and best practices
- Repositories
- PubMed-related issues
- R
- Python
- SQL / Databases
- Bioinformatics databases and tools
- Network Analysis software
- Gephi
- Cytoscape
- General software questions (G Suite, Excel [data cleaning features], OpenRefine, etc.)
Areas that are not supported currently:
- Quest (refer to NUIT Research Computing Consultations, Trainings, and Workshops)
- SAS, Stata, SPSS (refer to NUIT Research Data Management Consulting)
- Statistical methodology or in-depth statistical analysis (refer to the Feinberg’s Biostatistics Collaboration Center)
- Data de-identification and anonymization strategies
Available to
- Students
- Feinberg Faculty
- Staff
Cost
There is no cost for this service.
How to Request Service
To request a DataClinic consultation, please submit a request through the online request form.