Data Services at the Health Sciences Library (Data @ HSL) provides a central location to find biomedical data and statistics training opportunities and data consultation services for Health System faculty, staff, and students.

Data @ HSL helps guide researchers, students, and medical professionals in finding biomedical data, cleaning and wrangling the data, analyzing the data, and creating publication-ready visualizations. The services provided by the team involve individual consultations that allow a researcher to get focused assistance on specific data questions and workshops to assist researchers in learning novel data analysis techniques and software.

Data @ HSL includes expert consultations on statistical software such as R, GraphPad Prism, Excel, Stata, SAS, and SPSS.

Examples of questions we can assist you with include:

• How do I use R to create a publication-ready plot?
• How do I clean my data to ready it for analysis?
• What software package will be best for me to learn and use? 
• Where do I find a dataset on my topic?
• What type of data analysis do I need to do?

Need one-on-one help, Request a Consultation.

Check out our Workshops to help you build your skills!

Recognition of the contributions that Research and Data Services at the Health Sciences Library play in supporting research is essential to ensuring continued support for and availability of these types of research support at The University of Virginia. Please consider acknowledging us in any publications or presentations resulting from our support.

See publications we have contributed to.

Below are selected upcoming workshops - see our entire list of HSL Research & Data Workshops