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Personalized support for the HBS community on topics related to all stages of the research process, from fuzzy matching & text digitization to advanced statistical analyses, machine learning, & data visualizations.

 

Services

Statistical & Data Services

RCS provides consulting services and assistance for HBS faculty research projects on such topics as machine learning, statistical analyses, natural language processing & more.

Faculty Project Examples (login required)

Read about how the RCS team has assisted with HBS faculty research projects.

Our Team (login required)

RCS staff include experienced statisticians and data scientists with backgrounds in such disciplines as economics, statistics, machine learning, biology, & business.

Software Licensing (Login Required)

RCS provides licenses to commonly used research software (e.g., Stata) at no cost to the HBS community.

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.

Compute Cluster & Data Storage

RCS offers a local compute cluster to work with large data, access storage, and utilize databases, along with guidance on other research computing environments.

News 

HBSGrid Environment Changes for 2/6/23

03 Feb 2023

Our next maintenance is scheduled for Monday, February 6, 8 AM–12 PM. This will be a full cluster & MariaDB shutdown, for which ALL jobs and sessions will be terminated. Please plan appropriately. ...

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 are held remotely or in a hybrid format.

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)

Training Calendar 

Feb15
  • Feb 15 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
HBSGrid Training
Online via Zoom
This training for HBSGrid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the cluster.
Mar23
  • Mar 23 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HBSGrid Training
Online via Zoom
This training for HBSGrid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the cluster.

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