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What we do D-Lab assists the Berkeley community with the full range of research development, research design and data acquisition. We offer guidance in statistical methods and results to data visualization and communication.
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More than ever, AI and machine learning (ML) are integral parts of our lives and are tightly coupled with the majority of the products we use on a daily basis. We use AI/ML in almost everything we can think of, from advertising to social media and just going about our daily lives! With the...Read more about What is MLOps? An Introduction to the World of Machine Learning Operations
You have gathered the needed data to support your research, check. You have made some hypotheses about what you hope to conclude, check. You have spent time cleaning the data and organizing it in a manner that permits further exploration, check. You have sliced and diced the data with...Read more about Scrollytelling through a look at food prices around the world
For many data science problems, there is a need to estimate unknown information from a sequence of observed events. You may want to know, for instance, whether a person is angry or happy, given a sequence of brain scans taken while playing a video game. Or you may be digitizing...Read more about A brief primer on Hidden Markov Models
Last week marked the D-Lab’s inaugural “Excel Fundamentals” workshop, and to celebrate I am sharing one of my favorite Excel functions: INDEX-MATCH-MATCH. By combining the INDEX and MATCH functions, we can create a faster and more flexible lookup than the typical approach with...Read more about Excel Fundamentals: Lookups with INDEX-MATCH-MATCH
