Data House Calls

Our Data House Calls are a chance to leverage our staff’s expertise to help you get where you want to go with your data science skills, data management plans and execution, computing needs and beyond. Data House Calls are meant to be topical, focused on solving specific problems or discussing specific topics and function sometimes as a navigation tool to refer people to where they need to go even if we don’t have all the answers.

Typically 1-2 DaSL staff members are available for any given topic with an eye toward keeping availability high to ensure a fairly rapid timeframe between when people need the help and when they can sign up for it and get it.

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Fred Hutch and UW Medicine staff can now schedule on-call Data House Calls here and select one of the data oriented topics (or when in doubt, you can always schedule a General Data House Call). See below for descriptions about each Data House Call Type.

Data House Call Topics

Translational Data

Clinical and Research Data Solutions (CARDS) will become the foundational translational data infrastructure of the recently merged Fred Hutch Cancer Center. This DHC is for more information about the current status of translational data supports, CARDS development and associated efforts that are upcoming related to patient data governance, infrastructure and data science capabilities.

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General

Use this event to schedule a meeting with Amy Paguirigan to discuss how our group can help connect you with the right resources to support your work. For anything that doesn’t fit into the other topics, or if you are unsure of which to pick, this DHC is the one.

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Data Partnerships

Use this event to schedule a Data House Call if you are interested in a Data Science Partnership with an external partner. Some examples of areas you might be interested in exploring:

  • You have a gap in data science and/or technology need that would benefit from a known (or unknown) partner.
  • You have been contacted by a data science and/or technology company that is interested in partnering and could use a sounding board for if/how to proceed.
  • You are interested in an offering from a data science and/or technology company that you would like someone to help you assess for fit.

Or any other questions you have that relate to Data Science Partnerships.

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Data Policy and AI

Use this Data House Call for questionsabout data policy, data protection and AI use cases.

  • Inquire about the status of our AI interim policy and guidance for use of AI with patient and research data,
  • Ask questions about data use agreements, IRB protocols, and other data privacy or security concerns,
  • Get guidance regarding what aspects of our our data infrastructure supports your intended work.

Note, many of these topics can be supported by various other subject matter expert groups at the Fred Hutch. This DHC serves primarily as advice where DaSL is responsible for aspects of these issues and navigation support for finding an expert to help you for those aspects that we are not.

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Data Sharing, Study Planning and Grants

Use this Data House Call for questions about data sharing and planning such as:

  • preparing NIH or other funding agency Data Sharing Plans,
  • grant materials regarding DaSL support services available,
  • data sharing and/or tools to move and share data,
  • lab or research collaboration data management planning,
  • DaSL resources available to support your grant applications.

Or other questions you have that you feel might relate to this topic!

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Clinical Data Access

Use this Data House Call to discuss questions about Fred Hutch adult oncology clinical patient data access, especially for research and it’s oversight.

Curious about pathways to get access to Fred Hutch clinical patient data?

Have questions about IRB protocols and patient data for research options?

Want to learn about some of the ongoing work with DaSL, IT, Compliance, OTR and others that will be supporting the clinical data program at Fred Hutch?

This DHC is the right one.

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Research Data Management

Use this event to schedule a Data House Call for questions about research data management, infrastructure or tools.

  • Developing lab or group data management schemes that support research, leverage FHCC infrastructure and are cost effective
  • Transferring, storing or collaborating on large datasets
  • Accessing data in cloud storages
  • Accessing public datasets
  • How to work with licensed or private datasets (see the Data Policy and AI DHC for support for Data use agreements)
  • Learning about and accessing FHCC hosted datasets (e.g., data from our clinics, our large research groups, and reference datasets)
  • Managing and accessing reference datasets such as genome data, common bioinformatic tool reference data sets

Or other questions you have that you feel might relate to this topic!

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Code and Software: R, Python and Beyond

Use this event to schedule a Data House Call for questions about learning, writing and managing code and research software.

  • R
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Git/GitHub
  • User developed applications

Or other questions you have that you feel might relate to this topic!

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Research Computing: Running and Scaling your Analyses

Use this event to schedule a Data House Call for questions about how to run your code or analysis more effectively and scale up your work via:

  • Using our computing cluster
  • Writing and running scientific workflows
  • Bioinformatics software and environment management (including Docker!)
  • Leveraging Git/GitHub for code management and sharing
  • Leveraging cloud based data storage and/or computing
  • Collaboration and sharing of workflows, environments and large datasets

Or other questions you have that you feel might relate to this topic!  

Note: Often we pull in folks from the Scientific Computing team to provide expert advice as well so please describe your needs well so we can try to have the right staff ready.

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Data Wrangling and Visualization

Use this event to schedule a Data House Call if you are looking for a sounding board about strategies for data handling, tidy data, and data visualization, such as how to make engaging, clear, or even interactive figures.

Or other questions you have that you feel might relate to this topic.

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DaSL Supported Resources

Use this event to schedule a Data House Call for questions about DaSL supported resources such as:

  • PROOF
  • cBioPortal
  • WILDS
  • SciWiki

Or other questions you have that you feel might relate to this topic! Note: we often pull in folks from the DaSL team to provide expert advice so please describe the resource in question and your specific needs with that resource so we can try to have the right staff ready.

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