Research Computing Services

Personalized guidance and support in all phases of research projects: planning, data collection, analysis, reporting & visualization.

Services

Statistical & Data Services

RCS provides statistical and data services to the HBS community, ranging from research design and methodological consulting to statistical programming and analysis.

Software Licensing

RCS purchases most research software used at HBS, and many licenses are provided at no cost to the HBS community.

Research Facilitation

RCS staff are available to help researchers determine how to effectively leverage the research computing tools, resources, and approaches that are available today.

Statistical Resources

RCS statisticians have compiled technical notes in a series of technical papers, the RCS blog, and team member blogs.

Training

RCS is proud to offer training to HBS members and the wider academic community on a wide range of programming languages, tools, and techniques.

Research Computing Resources

RCS offers a local computing environment and platform to scale up research, access storage, and utilize databases, along with guidance on other research computing environments.

Our next maintenance is scheduled for Monday, September 13th, 8 AM–12 PM. This will be a full cluster & MariaDB shutdown, for which ALL jobs and sessions will be terminated. Please plan appropriately. ...

About Us

Research Computing Services (RCS) is a centralized service for faculty research computing needs with a staff of statisticians, data scientists, and experts in research computing.

Areas of Expertise

Expertise on the RCS team includes such topics as advanced statistical analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and high performance computing.

Live Demos

Stay tuned for announcements about live demos with the RCS team via Zoom. Drop in to watch an RCS staff member demonstrate a technique, share a tip, or work through a problem, and then stay to ask any and all questions related to research computing! No registration required. Recordings of these demos are made available after the fact on our live demos page.

How to Attend the Live Demos (login required)

Connecting with RCS

The RCS office is hybrid, and available to help remotely, in person, or via our online resources!

Individual members of the team can be reached using the email addresses and phone numbers on our team page. You can also contact us via Microsoft Teams and schedule meetings with us via Zoom. You can request software, HBSGrid accounts, storage, and other resources via these online forms. Other general requests can also be directed to research@hbs.edu or 5-6100. All training workshops and events will continue, but be held remotely until further notice.

Data Practices

RCS provides resources and guidance on general data management and efficiency best practices in various programming languages, along with assistance in creating databases. RCS has also compiled papers, packages, and tools that can help you with your data wrangling, web scraping, statistical analysis, and transferring data, among others.