{"id":346,"date":"2019-01-17T21:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/?page_id=346"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:57:31","slug":"data-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/data\/other-data-resources\/data-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Analysis &amp; Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#analysis\">Data Analysis<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"#dataviz\">Data Visualization<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"analysis\">ITS &#8211; Data Analysis Services<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.its.uiowa.edu\/our-services\/computing-services\/argon-high-performance-computing-hpc\">Argon: High Performance Computing (HPC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/services\/advanced-research-computing-access\">Advanced Research Computing with ACCESS<\/a><br \/>\nACCESS is an NSF-supported advanced computing and data resource.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/services\/interactive-data-analytics-service-idas\">Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS)<\/a> &#8211; high-performance computing (HPC) resource that supports large-scale and collaborative data analytics using RStudio for R and JupyterLab for Python, R, and Julia.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>College of Public Health<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.public-health.uiowa.edu\/biostatistics-consulting-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biostatistics Consulting Center<\/a>: biostatistical consulting to the Carver College of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy and Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.public-health.uiowa.edu\/cphs-analytic-support-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Public Health Statistics<\/a>: statistical analysis services, from simple data preparation support to full time project statisticians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Center for Social Science Innovation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cssi.research.uiowa.edu\/survey-multimethodology-research-services\/consultations-and-workshops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consultations and Workshops<\/a>: assist with basic questions about data collection and entry, basic and advanced statistical techniques, and several software packages, for research or teaching needs. Introductory workshops on Stata, R, ArcGIS, and Python.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"dataviz\">Data Visualization Tools<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is\u00a0Data\u00a0Visualization?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Data visualization combines numerical and other data with graphics for further representation.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Through visualization, you can more effectively communicate, compare, and elaborate upon your data.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Data visualization can take many forms such as tables, charts, and graphs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Geographic Data<\/h3>\n<p><strong>ArcGIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ArcGIS is a geographic information system designed to capture, store, man<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ipulate, analyze, manage, and present geographic data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/services\/arcgis\">ArcGIS Services<\/a> (ITS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.lib.uiowa.edu\/gis\">Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Introduction<\/a> (UI Libraries)<\/p>\n<h3>Other Data Visualization Platforms<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Google Data Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/datastudio.google.com\/navigation\/reporting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Data Studio <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"> <\/i><\/a> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is\u00a0a dashboard and reporting tools that is free to Google account users and Google\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cloud<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Platform customers. Users can choose from a broad array of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">charts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, graphs, pivot tales, and visualizations, incl<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">uding time series, bar charts, pie charts, tables, heat maps, geo maps, and more. Each visualization has built-in comparison functions, making it easy to see changes in the data period over\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">time.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathematica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/mathematica\">Mathematica<\/a> is a modern technical computing system spanning most areas of technical computing \u2013 including neural networks, machine learning, image processing, geometry, data science, visualizations, and others.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tableau Public<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/en-us\/s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tableau Public <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"> <\/i><\/span><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">is a free platform to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">publicly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0share and explore data visualizations online.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Use Tableau to create visuals and explore other visualizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Analysis\u00a0 | Data Visualization ITS &#8211; Data Analysis Services Argon: High Performance Computing (HPC) Advanced Research Computing with ACCESS ACCESS is an NSF-supported advanced computing and data resource. 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