It\u2019s official: the SSCC is now the Social Science Computing Core, a suite of research computing services provided by College of Letters & Science Information Technology Services (L&S ITS). And if you didn\u2019t notice any differences, that\u2019s by design. Most SSCC services will be completely unaffected, and you don\u2019t need to do anything differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will notice some changes in the coming weeks. Email from the Help Desk will look different when we switch to L&S ITS\u2019s ticketing system. You\u2019ll start getting responses from new people as the ITS Service Desk learns to answer questions about SSCC services. But continue to send email to helpdesk@ssc.wisc.edu or leave voicemail at 608-262-9917.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most SSCC users can stop reading here, but if you want to know more about how this affects the SSCC\u2019s staff, read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caitlin Tefft is now in a temporary position with the L&S ITS Service Desk, helping them learn to support SSCC services. But she\u2019s also available for consulting<\/a> and teaching workshops on qualitative analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cody Gerhartz and Ryan St. Peters are now part of ITS\u2019s new Desktop Support Team 2. They are still the primary endpoint support providers for the Sewell Social Sciences Building and UWSC, but they will help and be helped by the rest of Team 2, which covers the LaFollette Institute, Helen C. White, and more. They also continue to do their other work for the SSCC just like before. For example, Ryan is still the point person for SSCC instructional support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ryan Horrisberger, Zach Heise, Dan Bongert, and David Thompson are now the ITS Systems Engineering and Operations (SEO) team. In the coming weeks and months, more L&S system engineers will be moved to the SEO team. The SEO team will provide the SSCC\u2019s servers and other research computing infrastructure just like before. It will also create and support other services for the College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andy Arnold, Russell Dimond, and Jason Struck constitute the ITS SSCC team. The SSCC team oversees the SSCC\u2019s research services (in close collaboration with the leaders of the SEO team and the other teams that now contain members of the former Cooperative\u2019s staff). It also provides statistical consulting and research computing facilitation, just like before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In short, the staff of the former Social Science Computing Cooperative are mostly doing the same things they did last week, just as part of a larger organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are still a few workshops left in the SSCC\u2019s spring training schedule, including some Stata topics, NVivo, MAXQDA, and learning to use the SSCC\u2019s Linux servers. For details and to register visit the SSCC\u2019s training page<\/a>. Our core R, Stata, and Python workshops will be taught next in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSSCC Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Winter Tech Update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n