April 26, 2019

New UW Data Collaborative connects BE researchers with restricted data

The University of Washington Data Collaborative (UWDC) is now offering services to researchers across campus, including BE researchers Gregg Colburn at the Runstad Department of Real Estate and the Urban Form Lab.

Housed at the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, UWDC provides infrastructure to access restricted data in a secure and sophisticated computing environment. Data sets available to researchers cover health records, polling data, business and consumer data, and real estate data.

Researchers interested in accessing these data sets must first get authorization, after which they can VPN into the UWDC for access.

The UWDC is supported by the Population Health Initiative and Urban@UW.