Farewell to Doug and Amanda! Doug Hemken will retire as an SSCC statistical consultant at the end of September, after a long career during which he enhanced the work of thousands of researchers. Amanda Todd has left SSCC this week to move closer to family. Many of you have had the experience of talking to …
Welcome, New Members from the School of Education! The School of Education (SoE) has joined the SSCC for a one-year pilot membership, after which we’ll jointly evaluate a permanent membership. We’ve scheduled several orientation sessions in the coming month, mostly (but not exclusively) for new members from SoE–visit our training page for details and to …
SSCC Annual Account Renewal The SSCC’s annual account renewal process is underway. The Social Science Computing Cooperative carries out an annual account exercise to keep our account list up to date. If you received a renewal email, please follow the instructions to renew or close your account before June 1st. To renew your account, you …
Open OnDemand Do you need the power of the SSCC’s Linux servers, but find a command line interface intimidating? Are you a veteran Linux user who still misses the convenience of a graphical user interface? Or do you just want to log into Linstat without having to install anything? Open OnDemand lets you log into …
Introducing Open OnDemand We are happy to announce a pilot of Open OnDemand, a new way to access interactive Linux servers. OnDemand lets you run all the same programs as Linstat and submit jobs to Slurm, but with a graphical “desktop” interface similar to Winstat or a regular PC or Mac. You can also start …
Welcome to the SSCC We want to extend a warm welcome to all the new members of the Social Science Computing Cooperative, whether you’re a new faculty member, staff member, or graduate student who will use our resources for research, or an undergraduate taking a class that uses SSCC resources. What is the SSCC? The …
SSCC Training The SSCC’s fall training schedule is now available. We’d like to particularly draw the attention of new graduate students to the “Introduction to…” and “Data Wrangling in…” workshops in Stata, R, and Python, as these workshops are designed for you! You should take an “Introduction to…” workshop if you: Will be taking a …
Summer Training Schedule The SSCC’s summer training schedule is still available and the fall training schedule will be posted soon. As always it will include data wrangling classes in R, Stata, and Python and our regular workshop on regression diagnostics. Summer is a great time to fill in any gaps in your skillset, and data wrangling …
Slurm Update Usage of the SSCC Slurm cluster is growing rapidly: Slurm did more computing in February than Linstat ever has in a single month. But there’s still plenty of room for SSCC researchers to think bigger. Slurm users should not hesitate to put unused capacity to work. If your job will run faster with …
Spring Training The SSCC’s spring training schedule is now available. The core Data Wrangling in R, Stata, or Python workshops will be taught in mid-January, between semesters, and online so you can take them even if you’re not back in Madison yet. Other highlights include: Regression Review with R Introduction to Web Scraping with R Data Visualization in R …