Most people arrive with one specific problem rather than a service in mind. If yours isn’t listed, it is still worth asking. Most of our work is for research groups at UiO, but we take projects from public agencies and private companies as well.
Data management and sharing
A plan you can submit, and a data structure that makes good on it when the time comes to share.
Cheapest to do at application stage. Still possible later, just more work.
Data capture and engineering
A collection setup that puts data where it is allowed to be, and one documented dataset you can actually use — with the script that produces it, so it reruns when more data arrives.
Easiest before you start collecting, but we have rescued plenty of studies mid-flight.
Processing, analysis and computing
An analysis that runs the same way on your machine, a colleague’s and a server — packaged, version-controlled and documented — and running on a big machine when your laptop is not one.
You keep the code, and we can help you get the computing resources as well as use them.
Applications and databases
A database or a small web application that answers those questions on demand, for everyone on the project at once.
Built around how your project already works, not a product you have to adapt to.
Workshops and training
A hands-on workshop built around your group’s own data and tools, and the materials to keep working from afterwards.
Online or in person. We prepare around what your group actually works on.
Some of what we do has a name of its own. If you arrived looking for one of these in particular, this is it.
GOAT
Every value is versioned and timestamped, so you can see what changed, when, and who changed it. Built through UiO’s HUB-node initiative, and installed inside TSD when the data is sensitive. We set it up, shape it around your project, and train the people who will use it.
Nettskjema
Nettskjema is UiO’s survey tool, and we work at both ends of it. We help build the questionnaire — question types, branching, validation — and the process around it: who gets the link, where responses land, who may see them. If you want the responses in R afterwards, we can set up our nettskjemar package for you — or show your group how to use it themselves.
MRI
Protocol development, study design and feasibility up front. Once the scans exist — from whichever site collected them — we organise them, quality-control them and get them onto TSD, then run the preprocessing, structural and functional analysis, statistics, and the figures and methods text the paper needs.
Behavioural experiments
Cognitive paradigms, questionnaires and response-time tasks written in JavaScript, so the same experiment runs in the lab, on a participant’s own machine or on a tablet. Our tachisto builder assembles one without you writing any, and exports a self-contained experiment you can upload to Cognition.run, Pavlovia or JATOS, or host on a server of your own. A UiO platform to run them on is in development with the IT department.
You do not need to know which of these services you need, or what any of it is called. Describe the problem and we will tell you which one it is — and whether it is something we can actually help with.
At UiO that means Nettskjema, Educloud, TSD, NREC and Saga, which you are already paying for. Elsewhere it means your own systems. Either way we work inside them rather than selling you something new.
Code, documentation and workflows are handed over to you. Nothing we write needs us around to keep working.
Some groups want the work done for them. Others want someone to sit with their student for a week. Both are normal.
An hour to work out whether a thing is even possible is a perfectly sensible first job. Most collaborations start that way.
From researchers who have worked with us.
Capro created a custom database solution for us with our data spanning 15 years of longitudinal data collection. I am finally able to work with merged and tidy data for my papers, and to explore the entire catalogue of data without assistance!
I attended and co-organized Mo’s workshops on data processing, analysis, and reports. Mo is an excellent instructor who can adapt to different teaching contexts and audiences. Her enthusiasm for the topics makes the learning experience better.
Agata Bochynska
Researcher & Research Librarian
Digital Scholarship Days Workshop
The unique and comprehensive Lifebrain database has, thanks to Mo’s data management skills, has become a real treasure-trove: she has setup a user-friendly, secure, easy to explore data structure (data from over 5000 participants). She has additionally organized the Global Brain Health Survey data (over 27 000 respondents) and has made all the data and statistical analyses available for further use.
The University of Barcelona and partners had successful access to the Lifebrain Consortium data thanks to the Capro team’s effective coordination. Capro organized data in an easy-to-navigate system and provided guidance and updates to ensure high standards. The data included demographics, cognition, lifestyles, and MRI.
David Bartrés-Faz
Professor
Lifebrain EU-Consortium, University of Barcelona
The Capro team has been amazing in creating and maintaining a stable and scalable data management and processing environment. It has allowed me to successfully process thousands of brain MRI data sets.
The advanced data processing pipelines the LCBC team developed and helped developing, with at times daily online face to face sparring and guidance sessions, have been pivotal to my research.
Mo from Capro provided essential support in conducting a mega-analysis with raw data from about half a million people. She set up and maintained the computing environment on a HPC so that we could run the analysis smoothly and without the data ever leaving the secure storage location.
I’ve witnessed Mo’s masterful revamping of the R-Ladies website. She’s put a lot of care in creating a professional and beautiful interface, but also in creating sustainable update workflows for humans and machines. Her web development skills increase faster than Hugo version numbers, she’s very resilient to any 502 thrown at her, and she’s a kind and thoughtful collaborator. 200/10 would recommend working with her!
I attended Mo’s workshop on visualization with ggplot2 at R-Ladies Edinburgh in 2021. Mo is a very competent and enthusiastic teacher who can communicate complex content in an accessible manner. I learned a lot from the workshop and appreciate all the time and effort that went into it.
Ask anyway. Describe it in ordinary words — we will work out what it is called. If it is not something we can help with, we will say so.