Our Mission
The Data Science and Engineering Core (DSEC) in College of Medicine Research Information Technology creates secure high-performance computing resources, constructs analysis-ready datasets and provides data visualization and dashboarding services. DSEC is also available to consult on artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing.
Analytic computing environments
Enhance the performance, regulatory compliance, usability and reproducibility of research computing
Data visualization
Get dashboards, calculators and interfaces built around your data
Analytical services
Data wrangling, preparation, management, modeling, interactive reporting
Why consult the Data Science and Engineering Core (DSEC)?
Access to secondary data
DSEC provides data acquisition, licensing and contracting for a range of secondary data and oversees initiatives such as LifeScale.
Tailored tools and computing environments
DSEC advocates for researchers to provide access to virtual environments for machine learning. In addition to standing up open-source tools in those environments, DSEC builds custom visualization tools and dashboards for research projects.
Data Science and Engineering Core (DSEC) Services
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Data Visualization Get data visualization tools custom-built by RIT to answer research questions.
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Access the Secondary Data Core (SDC) Access commercial and private data and store your own research data through the SDC.
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i2b2 (Cohort Discovery) Request aggregate data to determine study feasibility.
People
Aeryn Amyot Smyth
Manager, Data Science Engineering Core
Venkat Gadepalli
Research Scientist