This mandatory training for new compute grid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the compute grid. This training is only for those who already have an account, and only for those who are using compute resources. If you would like to get set up with an account, please email...
The Unix shell (command line) has been around longer than most of its users have been alive. It has survived so long because it’s a power tool that allows people to do complex things with just a few keystrokes. More importantly, it helps them combine existing...
For the third year, Harvard, MIT, and Microsoft Research New England are proud to partner with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This one-day technical conference will bring together local academic leaders, industrial professionals and students to hear about the latest data science-related research in a number of domains, to learn how leading-edge...
This introduction to the popular ggplot2 R graphics package will show you how to create a wide variety of graphical displays in R. Topics covered include layering, mapping variables to aesthetics, working with position, color, and other scales, faceting, and themes.
Statistics courses usually use clean and well-behaved data for examples and homework. This leaves many unprepared for the messiness and chaos of data in the real world. This workshop aims to prepare you for dealing with messy data by walking you through real-life example.
This mandatory training for new compute grid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the compute grid. This training is only for those who already have an account, and only for those who are using compute resources. If you would like to get set up with an account, please email...
Web scraping is a method of extracting and restructuring information from web pages. This workshop will introduce basic techniques for web scraping using the popular Python libraries BeautifulSoup and Requests. Participants will practice accessing websites, parsing information, and storing data in a CSV...
Collecting, analyzing, and managing data is the bread-and-butter of any research project, and standard tools like Microsoft Excel are the go-to apps as they're omnipresent and easy to use. But these start to show their limitations when one needs to handle tens of...
This mandatory training for new compute grid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the compute grid. This training is only for those who already have an account, and only for those who are using compute resources. If you would like to get set up with an account, please email...
This mandatory training for new compute grid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the compute grid. This training is only for those who already have an account, and only for those who are using compute resources. If you would like to get set up with an account, please email...
