Do you help researchers compute with data? The Data-Facing Track of the People Network brings together people from research computing groups, libraries, research institutes, and other organizations who support data-enabled research. Many of us are also Researcher-Facing, but this track is an opportunity to discuss the varied challenges of working with data.
Topics include:
- Data science support
- Bioinformatics, statistics, GIS, and other support
- Data visualization
- Data management and curation
- Data workflows
- Data transfer and networks
- Data collection and production
- Working with big data
- And more, as determined by our members!
We connect via monthly calls and an email list.
Join Us!
Join Us! Fill out our membership form to let us know who you are and what you’re interested in. We’ll add you to the email list. Visit the People Network page to join other tracks.
Monthly Calls
Monthly calls are on the first Tuesday of the month, 1pm ET/12pm CT/11am MT/10am PT. Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via email.
Previous Call Documents Folder Link
Previous Data-Facing Recordings on YouTube Link
Upcoming Call(s)
July, 2024 – OFF
Track Leadership
Track coordinators (df-coordinators@carcc.org):
- Amy Koshoffer
- Deb McCaffrey
- Venice Bayrd
Previous Calls
| 06/04/2024 | Unconference with Breakouts on Generated Topics | |
| 05/07/2024 | Beyond the Business Case: Universally Designing the Workplace for Neurodiversity and Inclusion | |
| 04/02/2024 | ICPSR: A Partner in Social Research | |
| 03/05/2024 | Future of the Data-Facing Track | |
| 02/06/2024 | Common Workflow Language | |
| 01/02/2024 | Round Robin Track Discussion | |
| 12/04/2023 | No Session – Happy Holidays | |
| 11/07/2023 | Overview of GIS | |
| 10/03/2023 | ADSA Data ETHOS | |
| 09/05/2023 | Continuing Discussion on Artificial Intelligence | |
| 08/01/2023 | Artificial Intelligence: The Beginning and the End of Human Wisdom | |
| 07/04/2023 | No Session – Happy Independence Day | |
| 06/06/2023 | National Data Science Fabric | |
| 05/02/2023 | Accessibility Awareness Month- Kick-Off Community Discussion | |
| 04/04/2023 | The End of the Unlimited Cloud | |
| 03/07/2023 | NIH Policy Guidance – Train the Trainer | |
| 02/16/2023 | Joint Call with Researcher Track – Harvard Data Commons | |
| 01/03/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 11/01/2022 | The ICPSR Research Data Ecosystem | |
| 10/04/2022 | Panel on Teaching Research Data Management to Students | |
| 09/08/2022 | Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival: Data Collection, Research and Outreach discussion | |
| 06/05/2022 | Standards and terminologies for health data: a (brief) introduction to common data elements, common data models, and terminologies | |
| 05/03/2022 | Background and Demonstration of the Open Research Toolkit, an OER for Learning about the Open Research Ecosystem | |
| 4/05/2022 | Curating, Archiving, and Sharing Qualitative Data | |
| 3/01/2022 | Creating National Public Health Databases | |
| 02/01/22 | Science Gateways and Their Role in Today’s and Future Research Computing Ecosystem | |
| 01/04/2022 | Casual Tuesday Community Roundtable | |
| 11/02/2021 | National Archive of Criminal Justice Data | |
| 10/05/2021 | Revisiting the Facilitating Best Practices, pt 1 | |
| 09/07/2021 | Data Science Ethics | |
| 07/06/2021 | Digital Preservation and Access at Scale: Managing the HathiTrust Digital Library | |
| 06/01/2021 | OSF Integrations | |
| 05/04/2021 | Data Feminism | |
| 04/06/2021 | Digital Humanities Platforms | |
| 03/02/2021 | PLENARY: Using Data to Benchmark your Research Computing and Data Program: The RCD Capabilities Model and Community Dataset | |
| 02/01/2021 | Casual Tuesday Community Roundtable | |
| 12/01/2020 | Creating a standard Vocabulary: the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) | |
| 11/03/2020 | Teaching Data Skills Remotely: Check-in | |
| 10/06/2020 | The Power of Electronic Lab Notebooks | |
| 09/01/2020 | An Institution-wide Examination of Data Needs: NSF EPOC Deep Dive at the University of Cincinnati | |
| 08/04/2020 | PEARC20 After Party | |
| 07/07/2020 | What data to keep? Making decisions about confocal microscopy data | |
| 05/20/2020 | Student Workers | |
| 04/07/2020 | XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Service (ECSS) and Data Analytics Resources | |
| 03/03/2020 | Community Organizations: RDAP, ADSA, Big Data Innovation Hubs | |
| 02/04/2020 | Secure Data Platforms | |
| 01/07/2020 | Data-Facing Track Open Forum | |
| 12/03/2019 | Data Science Support Beyond Data Science | |
| 11/05/2019 | Data Disasters | |
| 10/01/2019 | IT and Library Collaboration on Data Services | |
| 09/03/2019 | Mapping the Research Life Cycle | |
| 08/06/2019 | Data Workflow Case Studies | |
| 07/02/2019 | Topic-based Networking and Group Discussions | |
| 06/04/2019 | Introduction to Data-Facing Track |