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.
HBSGrid Environment Changes for 11/1/21
26 Oct 2021
Our next maintenance is scheduled for Monday, November 1st, 8 AM–12 PM. ...
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.
Expertise on the RCS team includes such topics as advanced statistical analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and high performance computing.
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- Advanced Statistical Analysis
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- Causal Inference
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- Data Wrangling
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- Database Hosting and Consultation
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- Experimental Design
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- Fuzzy Matching
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- High Performance Computing
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- Machine Learning
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- Missing Data
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- Natural Language Processing
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- Power Analysis
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- R Package Development
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- Research Computing Facilitation
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- Revise and Resubmit (R&R) Support
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- Simulations
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- Survey Non-Response Analysis
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- Visualizations
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- Web Scraping
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)
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.
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.
- Dec 03 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Large Data Handling in R
Baker Library B82 OR Online via Zoom
This workshop will teach you techniques and tools for working with data that is too big to comfortably fit in your computer's memory.
- Dec 10 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Pandas in Python
Baker Library B82 OR Online via Zoom
This workshop will provide a basic introduction to pandas, an incredibly useful Python library that facilitates working with data.
- Dec 15 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
HBSGrid Training
Online via Zoom
This mandatory training for new HBSGrid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the cluster.
Help
How to contact us and submit online requests along with technical how-to’s and frequently
asked questions.
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