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# Purpose {.unnumbered}

This book is to document the processes, resources, and internal workings of the Communications & Cyber Technologies Data Science Team at the University of Arizona.
A public facing version of what we do and how to work with us is available at [our website](https://datascience.cals.arizona.edu/).

The CCT Data Science Team is a research support unit that helps life sciences researchers learn and apply data science tools and skills to their scientific projects.
We are a small group of data scientists and research software engineers that work with domain researchers in the ALVSCE division through a variety of programming.
We host workshops to demonstrate use of modern computational tools, work on collaborative projects, and help researchers one-on-one.
The team teaches and applies a broad array of topics from best practices in R to version control using git to open and reproducible research workflows.