Statistical Methodology and Computing Service (SMCS)

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Technical and scientific expertise

  • Consulting and support services at all stages of a data analysis project
  • Training courses in a wide range of statistical tools and methods, organised face-to-face or remotely
    • UCLouvain continuing education programmes, some leading to a university certificate
    • Training offered by experts in statistics from various backgrounds: mathematics, business engineering, biosciences and civil engineering, political science and humanities, computer science, psychology, etc.

Learn about SMCS services in this video

Main equipment

  • High-performance computing servers hosted at CISM

Applications

Examples

  • Use of multivariate data analysis or data-mining tools for exploration, classification or prediction in large data sets
  • Survey design: questionnaire design, sampling, database structuring, multivariate analyses
  • Evaluation, comparison, validation of measurement methods
  • Design of experiments for laboratory or industrial trials
  • Calculation of sample size for a clinical trial or scientific experiment

Services available to

  • Entire UCLouvain community (researchers, administrative staff, etc.)
  • Non-UCLouvain individuals, public or private organisations

Testimonial

March 2024 - M. Gaël de Lannoy, Head of Global Drug Substance Innovation Center at GSK  - a world-renowned vaccine manufacturer - talks in a video about his collaboration with the SMCS platform.

 

News

SMCS Winter School - Artificial Intelligence and Machine...

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SMCS and women's health - A new research collaboration

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SMCS - Become a certified Junior Data Analyst with this...

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Want to learn something new but need help financing it?

The SMCS offers several solutions, depending on the training! In fact, several of the platform’s training courses are eligible for training vouchers, and sometimes even for the educational...

Farm for Good, GSK, Isomatex and VOCSens : testimonials

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Text Mining in Python : SMCS and CENTAL organize a...

Do you already have a good knowledge of programming?   Would you like to carry out a text mining project?   Are you planning to use these automatic language processing...

The SMCS is hiring!

Are you enthusiastic about taking part in projects, statistical consultancy and statistical software training? The interdisciplinary platform is currently looking for a data scientist....

University Certificate : Analyse de données appliquée en...

Are you interested in data analysis and biotechnology? Would you like to change your career path? Our Certificate in Applied Data Analysis in R&D starts on January 29 and is just waiting...

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Follow the link !   Discover the SMCS 2024 training program!             Picture credit : Yvan Flamant

New at SMCS : Online self-learning training sessions

Would you like to study data analysis regardless of time or place? Now you can!   The SMCS platform organises online self-learning training sessions accessible to all, at any time....

Back to school! What courses will you be enrolling in...

Discover here the SMCS program for the 2023-2024 academic year!   Note that many of the upcoming training courses will be delivered online (in case you want to learn without...

Winter School: Artificial Intelligence and Machine...

Do you have good programming skills? Would you like to discover the concepts of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Are you planning to deploy your models to the cloud? This winter...

Modular version of the Junior Data Analyst university...

Registration continues for the University Certificate Junior Data Analyst in modular version organized by SMCS! Be a certified Junior Data Analyst with our program starting in October 2023...

SMCS: Introduction to the creation of interactive...

Do you have a huge amount of data that you want to visualise using an interactive dashboard? Discover Power BI! On 22 June, the SMCS platform, in collaboration with UCLouvain's external...

Summer School: Artificial Intelligence and Machine...

Still a few places available ! From July 11 to 14, is taking place for the first time the Summer School "Du traitement des données au déploiement d'un modèle prédictif dans le cloud: Intelligence...

Innovate in your company with the technology platforms...

Boost innovation in your company with the technology platforms of UCLouvain Did you know? Technology platforms give you access to expertise, equipment and infrastructures at the cutting...

Summer School: Text Mining and Medical Data Analysis in...

You have good programming skills? You want to achieve a project in Text Mining? You intend to use such automatic language processing techniques in a specific domain? This summer school...

SMCS: an introduction to network analysis with R

Social networks, student networks, transportation networks, etc. Do you want to be able to analyze data by taking into account the relationships between them ? An introduction to network...

SMCS and BIOINFO organise two training courses on RNAseq...

► Do you want to get started with RNAseq data processing and learn how to analyse this type of data?   ► Do you want to get started with reproducible data analysis with R, one of the...

SMCS: The Junior Data Analyst Certificate spotlighted by...

Le FOREM has recently updated the list of jobs in shortage as well as the list of training courses allowing to access them. The Junior Data Analyst University Certificate proposed by the SMCS...

Registration for SMCS courses : the academic year...

Book your calendar ! SMCS offers a range of training courses in data analysis (covering various software and statistical techniques) throughout the year and provides a consultancy service to...