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March 2022
Software Development For Research: Version Control Principles
Software development and computer programming is increasingly a major part of scientific research. Projects can quickly grow, and it can be difficult to manage changes, especially if multiple programmers are…
Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster
OVERVIEW This workshop will introduce you to high performance computing on the Great Lakes cluster. After a brief overview of the components of the cluster and the resources available there, the main…
Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster
OVERVIEW This workshop will cover some more advanced topics in computing on the U-M Great Lakes Cluster. Topics to be covered include a review of common parallel programming models and…
Processing the CoreLogic Data on Great Lakes using PySpark
OVERVIEW This workshop provides an introduction to processing CoreLogic data using PySpark on the Great Lakes cluster. The CoreLogic dataset contains aggregated data from individual, parcel-level real estate transactions and…
Machine Learning on Great Lakes
OVERVIEW This workshop will go over methods and best practices for running machine learning applications on Great Lakes. We will briefly outline machine learning before stepping through a hands-on example…
Reading and discussion group: Spatial Analysis in Social Sciences
This reading group moderated by consultants from CSCAR will focus on spatial analysis especially as practiced in social sciences. We will meet for 1.5 to 2 hours every month on…
Software Development For Research: Git for Collaborative Development
This is a continuation of the previous workshop "Software Development For Research: Version Control Principles". Now, having learned the basics of version control, we will see how to use the…
April 2022
Data Sharing and Archiving
OVERVIEW For growing data volumes, how we manage data becomes more important. This session will cover the basics of managing data in a research environment such as those at ARC…
Software Development For Research: Team-Based Programming Management
Software development and computer programming is increasingly a major part of scientific research. When small or large teams are involved in coding the same project, it’s a good idea to…
May 2022
Data Scraping With The Twitter Decahose At The University of Michigan
Social media platforms are a rich source for data. The University of Michigan collects data with the Twitter Decahose, maintaining an archive of 10% of tweets made from the past…
